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new and upcoming releases
Notes of a Digital Ghost
by Don Schaeffer
Winnipeg, Canada
So I am a digital ghost. I have converted. A percentage of me has retreated completely from the world of physical things and invested in a dark world of words and shared souls.
... see October 2008 page 3
"Where the contemporary poet is concerned, Don Schaeffer is probably one the most complete packages available to the canadian poetry community, offering a unique blend of the artist and the poet, dabbling in texture-rich dimsensions that are compact and easy to read while not lacking in emotion or accessibility. His poster work, a combination of visuals and text is as exceptional, eliciting a warm connection with the human element through the use of color and distortion. Don's work is derived from real experience, earmarked by it's simplistic delivery, revered for it's precision and consistent voice. These characteristics have not been compromised in the production of 'Notes of a Digital Ghost'."--Bernard Alain
Scheduled for release with Publish America.
New and Selected Poems
by John Yamrus
United States
A 23 year retrospective look at the poetry of John Yamrus who has been writing since 1970.
“Two major qualities prevail in his recent work: economy and punch. No word is unnecessary or out of place; the timing is impeccable; and, most difficult of all, the endings hit just the right balance of summation, revelation, and surprise.” Gerald Locklin
“Yamrus gambles with an all or nothing gesture to make the poem and the language his own. It dances right at the edge where all great poetry dances.” Todd Moore
ISBN: 978-1-929878-00-0
Pages: 138
US
Price: $15 + $3 S&H (US & CAN) = $18 (from Lummox Press)
WORLD Price: $15 + $10 = $25
(from Lummox Press)
Publishing Date: November 2008
To obtain a copy of this featured release by John Yamrus please use the following links:
for a signed copy, order from www.lummoxpress.com - $18 (PPD)
Also available at www.createspace.com and www.amazon.com
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in the spotlight
Ira Lightman
U.K.
Ira Lightman wanted to be a vicar. He is a poet who makes Public Art, mainly in
the North East of England, where he lives. His pieces include The Spennymoor Letters (photo on right),
ten 2-metre high poems made to look like the letters S, P, E, N, N, Y etc, the
Gatesheads (photo on right) and the Blythscopes, coloured text in head and binocular shapes, Glade
(a river of text) and the Family Tree Forest. He appears regularly on Radio 3’s The
Verb, writing Pi mnenomics, Miltonic verse while blindfolded, and a poem entirely
out of words containing a double l, as a collaboration with Peter Finch. He likes to
make formal innovations for special occasions.
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selected poem
The moon chirps
The moon chirps
over a cottage I borrow
high as the heating
the tenant never began,
the times she used heat
were wood in boxed glass.
Fly off.
Always there, in windscreen dark;
to see it, I peered, chin on steer;
excitement in the man as I iron
to clothe one day warm limb in
county coincidence at reception -
the woman's been where my shirts last hung,
carries, sorry, a mere swoop of a mouse.
by Ira Lightman
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current release
Duetcetera
by Ira Lightman
UK
Deutcetera is about voices taking each other
for granted, saying “etc etc” and not listening,
nevertheless turning out to duet. It contains
double- and multi-columned poems, where
each column can be read in its own right (or
left), and also read across the columns. Most
of the poems (and translations) were written
separately from each other, but happen to fi t
together. The poems play separately in diff erent
rhythms and moods yet sound with and
against each other. Ira is recording many of
them as duet-videos for his YouTube channel.
The themes of the collection range
from celebration of marriage and fatherhood,
to the contrasts in Protestant and Roman
Catholic thinking. The book ends on an extended
sequence written half in the voice of
a six-year-old boy, and half as a set of statements about what’s infl uencing the
language and ideas of the overall book.
“. . . both compelled eyes and ears (and mind) and sent me back to 70s’ Ashbery
and even a dip into Beowulf (Howell Chickering’s) because of that uniform divide
and bridge of a caesura—thanks, man.” —Fred D’Aguiar
“King of the Tyneside experimental language scene . . . a restless spirit, who likes
to play with defi nitions of what writing and performance can be . . . we love people
who like to experiment, and by extension then, we love Ira Lightman.”
—Ian Mcmillan
Paperback: 84 pages
Publisher: Shearsman Books (26 Nov 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1848610114
ISBN-13: 978-1848610118
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.5 cm
To obtain a copy of this release by Ira Lightman please use the following link:
www.amazon.com
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