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25¢ Rocket Ship to the Stars by G.O. Clark {Dark Regions Press}
G.O. Clark is the author of six chapbooks of poetry, the latest being Mortician's Tea from Naked Snake Press.
His poems, stories, and book reviews have been published in numerous journals since 1979. He lives in Davis, CA in a mobile home with his cat Ariel.
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The 2nd Annual SFPA Poetry Contest 2007: Sonnets Edited by W. Gregory Stewart, Marcie Lynn Tentchoff, & Scott Virtes {Spec House of Poetry}
The top 26 entries of the 2007 SFPA online sonnet contest, as determined by the judges. This collection has recieved two Rhysling Award Nominations, Constance Cooper's "The Cyburbs" and Rita Janice Traub's "Tribute to an Astronaut".
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Ancient Skies by oino sakai, illustrated by andrea gradidge {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Ancient Skies is oino sakai's collection of scifaiku, tanka, SFonnets, joined scifaiku, stellarenga, kanshi, and haibun by The Master of More With Less. sakai's sharp and gentle voice flows throughout these syllables and words and phrases, conjuring stark yet complex images sure to guide you when your mind is wandering. sakai's long-time collaborator, ushi [Andrea Gradidge] provides the artistic counterpoint to sakai's imagery with her illustrations and cover art. This collection is a must, even if you think you don't like scifaiku.
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Angelflesh by Christina Sng {Sam's Dot Publishing}
A collection of poems by Singapore's outstanding fantasy/horror poet Christina Sng is now bound together with illustrations from the fertile and creative mind of Teri Santitoro. You'll thrill and chill to such masterpieces as "Thorns" and "A Mosquito's Tale," and laugh and shiver at the macabre "Li'l Grim Reaper." Sam's Dot Publishing is pleased and proud to present this first in a series of illustrated poetrybooks by some of the leading voices of our times.
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Appalling Limericks {Sam's Dot Publishing}
This illustrated chapbook features appalling work by Gail Wickman, Leslie Carmichael, Jessica Elizabeth, Tero Laaksonen, A. R. McRae, Jason Wittman, Greg Beatty, Greg Schwartz, and Marge Simon, and many more. Actually, the work is great...just appalling. Indelicately illustrated by 7ARS and edited by the limerick triumvirate of Scott Virtes, Edward Cox, and Karen L. Newman, Appalling Limericks is a fun read any time of the year.
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Attack of the Two Headed Poetry Monster by Mark McLaughlin and Michael McCarty {Skullvines Press}
Attack Of The Two-Headed Poetry Monster features more than 80 horror and dark fantasy poems by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Mark McLaughlin and Bram Stoker Award Finalist Michael McCarty.
It even includes two long collaborative poems by the diabolical duo. The styles of the poems range from light-hearted to dead-serious – from whimsical to Gothic to midnight-horrific.
The collection includes an Introduction by Bram Stoker Award-winning poet Rain Graves, an Afterword by prominent poet, editor and artist Sandy DeLuca, and cover art and interior illustrations by Mark McLaughlin.
6 X 9 Perfect Bound Paperback
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Beast by Erin Donahoe {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Beast is an illustrated collection of poetry that derives some of its themes
and sensuality from the Japanese tales of the fox-woman. Its eroticism is
both haunting and intense, its language both folkloric and intimate. And its
imagery and vision is beyond the scope of anything you have ever read
before. You owe it to yourself to buy this chapbook...and to read it in
candlelight, with a glass of wine and with a...close friend.
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Bits and Pieces by Greg Schwartz {Spec House of Poetry}
Illustrations by Cathy Buburuz
The debut chapbook from Greg Schwartz. New poems, along with poems previously published in the genre's top publications. First Regular Edition Pressing, each hand numbered out of 60 Copies. SPEC-09
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Blood Verse by Derek Clendening, illustrated by Marcia A. Borell {Sam's Dot Publishing}
In Early and Late Romantic Writing Classes at Brock University, Derek Clendening hit upon the idea of combining poetic concepts—what is a poet, what does he do, and how does he see more clearly than others—with vampires and vampirism. Coming to regard the vampire as a creative being, he envisioned new possibilities for the literary vampire.
Within these pages are poetic works that will take you beyond the stereotypes of the media—the movies, the novels, the nosferatu. Come turn these pages and see how the undead do it.
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Bone Sprockets by G.O. Clark {Dark Regions Press}
G.O. Clark is the author two previous chapbooks of speculative poetry, A Box Full Of Alien Skies, and The Other Side of The Lens. His work regularly appears in many magazines, including Talebones, Asimov's Science Fiction, Dreams & Nightmares, and Star*Line. He was recipient of the Asimov's Readers Award for best poetry, 2001. He lives in Davis, CA, surrounded by dusty books and secretive neighbors.
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A Box Full or Alien Skies by G. O. Clark {Dark Regions Press}
G.O. Clark has appeared in magazines such as Asimov's, Talebones, Space & Time, Dreams & Nightmares, and many more. His poems have been anthologized in 2001: A Science Fiction Poetry Anthology, the Rhysling Award Anthology, and Star Trek -- The Poems. His book and magazine reviews have found space in Star*Line and Small Press Review. In 2001, he was the recipient of the Asimov's Readers' Award for best poem, and in the same year he came in 2nd in the Rhysling Award competition, short poem category, sponsored by the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Also in the spring of 2001 he joined the staff of Dark Regions Magazine as an assistant fiction editor. He resides in Davis, CA in a mobile home park with his cat and college bound son, and works in a university library to keep up with creditors. He still retains his sense of wonder, fifty-six-years young.
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Brain Reactor Transmissions by Charles Lucien {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Brain Reactor Transmissions is a heady collection of haibun, scifaiku, and tanka by one of the master scifaijin. This chapbook will take you into the deepest of deep ends and bring you back again...maybe. With illustrations by 7ARS, BRT is an intricate and thrilling read.
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Catacombs and Photographs by Brandy Schwan {Apex Publications}
The Grim Trixter is back, this time with a limited edition chapbook collection of more than 30 hauntingly evocative poems that explore everything from nursery rhymes to modern serial killers.
Print run is limited 100 copies, signed by the author and featuring cover art by Lindsay Archer.
Special introduction by Richard Doetsch, author of The Thieves of Heaven and The Thieves of Faith (Dell Books).
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Cold Tomorrows by Bruce Boston {Gothic Press}
Original and previously uncollected poems.
"If SF were to select a Poet Laureate, the post's most logical candidate would inarguably be Bruce Boston."--Science Fiction Age
"Boston has almost single-handedly revolutionized the form [of SF poetry]."--Fantasy Commentator
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Conditions of Sentient Life by Bruce Boston {Gothic Press}
Original and previously uncollected poems.
"If SF were to select a Poet Laureate, the post's most logical candidate would inarguably be Bruce Boston."--Science Fiction Age
"Boston has almost single-handedly revolutionized the form [of SF poetry]."--Fantasy Commentator
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Dark Nebulae by John J. Dunphy {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Dark Nebulae is a collection of haibun [stories punctuated with a three-line poem], published in trade paperback format.
Enter the realm of John J. Dunphy. There's the Babe in Black, a Goth chick who always wears a tight, black leather top and pants as well as shiny black boots. A new species of primate in an interstellar garbage dump--on Earth. A Welsh sin eater. A world at the bottom of the ocean of another Universe. A bridge with its name misspelled--maybe.
All these places and people, and much more await you within these covers. Be prepared to laugh, cry, smile, and tremble. Be prepared to stay awhile.
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Disturbed by Julie Shiel {Sam's Dot Publishing}
If you like your poetry dark and incisive...if Psycho is your favorite movie, then "Disturbed" is for you. This collection of poetry gives a whole new meaning to "cutting edge." It is a rage against the darkness and pain of this world: of shattered relationships, of love and revenge, of the unbearable which must be borne. Julie Shiel is an E-ride through the Dark House in the carnival. Lavishly illustrated by Teri Santitoro and Janis Marshall.
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Double Visions by Bruce Boston {Dark Regions Press}
In Double Visions, SFPA Grandmaster Poet Bruce Boston collaborates with ten other poets, including fellow Grandmaster Robert Frazier, Bram Stoker Award winner Marge Simon, and Asimov's Readers' Award winner G. O. Clark. Includes seven Rhysling nominees, the winner of the Odyssey Poetry Award, and the winner of the Locus Online Poetry Poll for Best All-Time SF, Fantasy, or Horror Poem.
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Dwarf Stars edited by Deborah P. Kolodji {Deborah P. Kolodji}
Dwarf Stars is 12 pages, contains 30 short-short science fiction, fantasy, and horror poems under 10 lines, with work by Duane Ackerson, William Allegrezza, Ruth Berman, John Borneman, Bruce Boston, G.O. Clark, Michael R Collings, John Dunphy, Christine Emmert, Kendall Evans, John Grey, David Huntsperger, Tim Jones, Deborah P Kolodji, David C Kopaska-Merkel, Michael Lohr, Eric Marin, Melissa Marr, Andy Miller, Terrie Leigh Relf, Karen A Romanko, Ann K Schwader, Marge B Simon, Mikal Trimm, John Vieira, Jane Yolen, and Lee Clark Zumpe.
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Eeku by Karen L. Newman {Sam's Dot Publishing}
EEKU is a collection of dark and fantastic scifaiku by Karen L. Newman, illustrated by 7ARS and Sandy DeLuca. Come take a journey through minimalist poetry with maximalist imagery. EEKU is sure to chill you, thrill you, and leave you breathless with the desire for more.
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Etiquette With Your Robot Wife by Bruce Boston {Bruce Boston}
Illustrated by Marge Simon, 44 pages, (Talisman, 2005). Half the humorous list poems in this collection first appeared in
Asimov's SF Magazine, including the Asimov's Readers' Choice winner, "Things Not to Do or Say When a Mad
Scientist Moves into Your Neighborhood." The rest first appeared in Strange Horizons, Talebones, Weird Tales,
Dreams and Nightmares, etc. Includes: Signs Your Parents Are Being Replaced by Automatons, What to Expect and Not
from an Interstellar Voyage, Advice on Meeting the Devil in Hell, Things You Can't Avoid as an Immortal, Reasons the Druids Did Not Survive, The Car of the Future. Copies signed by both the author and artist are available on request.
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Europa by Gavin Salisbury {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Europa is an epic poem, rich with metaphor and steeped in mythology, about the journey of civilization from "then" to "now" to the next step... Take an allegorical journey from the past into the future, and to the rebirth of humanity. Richly illustrated by 7ARS.
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Excuse all the Blood by Shea Garrity {Shea Garrity}
A collection of (misanthro)poetry and full-color Photophilia (photographic artwork) by Shea Garrity. This tome outlines the destructive path of a dissident that creates his own transcendence through the process of destruction and change. Includes an illustration by Draconis Blackthorne.
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Fair Warning by Susan M. Sailors {Sam's Dot Publishing}
There are problems in the future and in space, and you, dear human, will have to cope. What will you do when your memory bank is overdrawn? Who will win out when an assassin and the Grim Reaper compete for assignments? What happens when the insurance runs out that protects your psyche against bad dreams?
Where does an Earthling go to recover youth? What draws you back to the sea?
And what keeps you from running, screaming, out into the shrouded night.
Open this book and find out . . .
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The Flayed Man and other poems by Phillip A. Ellis {Gothic Press}
"To scare is a slim purpose in poetry," wrote Winfield Townley Scott. And to scare is not the aim in this collection of poems by Phillip A. Ellis. The pleasures that it offers, after all, are those of all good poetry, speculative or otherwise. Enter the world of The Flayed Man, and let Phillip's poetic vision seduce you with his unique and poetic world view.
Phillip A. Ellis is an Australian poet, critic and scholar, and he is currently studying Honours in English. He hopes to make his reputation as a poet, and in the field of Australian studies.
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A Galaxy in a Jar by Laurel Winter {Dark Regions Press}
A Galaxy In A Jar collects twenty-seven new and previously published work. Laura Winter has won awards for short fiction (a World Fantasy Award for best novella for "Sky Eyes") and poetry (both Rhyslings and Asimov's Reader's Poll Awards for best poem "Why goldfish shouldn't use power tools" and "egg horror poem"). She's sold fiction and poetry to a variety of magazines, including F&SF, Asimov's, Analog, Aboriginal, Tales of the Unanticipated, and Mythic Delirium. On the other side of the desk, she was the poetry editor for Tales of the Unanticipated for ten years.
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Hahaku edited by Teri Santitoro {Sam's Dot Publishing}
HAHAKU is a collection of senryu, and senryu are amusing scifaiku, so yes, this is a blithe and light-spirited little chapbook guaranteed to bring a some dancing light into your life--maybe early in the morning, when you're parked on the Interstate during the morning commute. HAHAKU features works by more than 25 different poets, including Marge Simon, s.c. virtes, C. M. Mattison, Charlie "Caw" Miller, Marcie Lynn Tentchoff, Cathy Buburuz, and David Kopaska-Merkel, among others.
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The Handless Maiden and other Tales Twice Told by JoSelle Vanderhooft {Sam's Dot Publishing}
These 28 poems by Bram Stoker Award-nominated poet JoSelle Vanderhooft explore, change and dissect several of the stories that have enthralled and inspired humans for centuries. Within these pages, a hungry Little Red Riding Hood stalks a callow young wolf. The frog prince meditates on the eternal battle of the sexes. Helen of Troy is unveiled as a museum exhibit. A heroic prince sacrifices himself to a dragon to appease his people, and a young girl sacrifices her hands to protect her beloved father from the Devil. Melancholy, triumphant, harrowing and sometimes darkly sexy, these twice-told tales honor the stories of the past by molding them into the stories of the future.
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The Hydrocephalic Ward by Steve Rasnic Tem {Dark Regions Press}
The Hydrocephalic Ward collects fifty new and previously published poems. Steve Rasnic Tem's works have been compared to that of Franz Kafka, Dino Buzzati, Ray Bradbury, and Raymond Carver, but to quote Joe R. Lansdale: "Steve Rasnic Tem is a school of writing unto himself." His 300 plus published pieces have garnered him the Britsh Fantasy, International Horror Guild, World Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Awards.
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I Don't Know What You're Having... by David C. Kopaska-Merkel {Sam's Dot Publishing}
"I Don't Know What You're Having . . . " by David C. Kopaska-Merkel is a collection of some of his best previous poems, including Rhysling nominees and finalists, and some of his latest new work. Starkly illustrated by New England artist Sandy DeLuca, this chapbook will take you to dark and fantastic places you've never been...and might not let you go.
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I Feel So Schizophrenic, The Starship's Aft-Brain Said by Kendall Evans {Sam's Dot Publishing}
". . . this little book is a concise answer to some fundamental questions, like who are we and who is with us and who isn't, and how do we tell the difference. I'm talking about the difference between tools and partners, which the use of AIs raises immediately. Who is trudging along the beach beside us and what is just tucked under our belt or in our backpack? Of course 'I feel so schizophrenic...' is also a quest within a quest, a thriller, and a lyrical tour of a complex and intriguing future in which questions about humanity take on new dimensions."
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Improbable Jane by s.c. virtes {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Jane Doe Discovered
The Improbable Notebook of Jason V--
Cougar Village
illustrations by Marge Simon, David L. Transue, and s.c. virtes.
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In Deepspace Shadows: A Dramatic Poem in Two Acts by Kendall Evans {Mythic Delirium Books}
New from Mythic Delirium Books, a ground-breaking innovation in science fiction from Rhysling Award-winning poet Kendall Evans, the revised and fully-illustrated edition of his two-act science fiction play in verse, In DeepSpace Shadows. Nebula Award-winning author Sheila Finch dubs Evans' unique creation "rich and strange, as Christopher Marlowe might have written about Deep Space if he'd only known." With a color cover, 36 pages, fully illustrated by Mythic Delirium regulars Don Eaves, Terrence Mollendor and Tim Mullins.
From the back cover: "Why journey to a place of nothingness? For the language that takes you there. Kendall Evans' In Deepspace Shadows: A Dramatic Poem in Two Acts is the future scripted by Cyril Tourneur after Isaac Asimov, an eerie and elegant creation within which conspiracies, mutinies, and madness unfold in electromagnetic pulses and static recharge—stage directions, set design, iambic pentameter and all. Gather four friends; read this mechanical fantasia aloud. Like the light of dead stars, its images will haunt your sky long after their words have been put away." — Sonya Taaffe
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In the Dark by Angela Albee {Sam's Dot Publishing}
"In The Dark" takes you on a poetic odyssey into hell, both Here and in the Hereafter. In minimalist style it evokes images of fears, nightmares, and personal demons, all the way to the chilling denouement. Hauntingly illustrated by Sandy DeLuca and Alyce Hendrickson.
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Insanity on Ice by Cathy Buburuz {Sam's Dot Publishing}
The font of all dark places is the mind, which is able to conjure up images both familiar and surreal. Often our worst fear is something trivial: a spider, dangling from a ceiling thread while we sleep, and drawing ever closer . . . and tonight, will you lie awake, staring at your own ceiling, merely because of the after-image left you by these few words? That's what the poety of Cathy Buburuz will do for you. Insanity On Ice, by Cathy Buburuz, is illustrated by Marcia A. Borell.
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Inside The Blood Museum by Karen R. Porter {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Karen R. Porter's "Inside The Blood Museum" is a poetic journey through darkness and danger, tickling your anxieties along the way. Illustrated by 7ARS and Marcia Borell, "Inside The Blood Museum" will satisfy your craving for dark fantasy while you explore regions of the imagination that you scarcely knew existed.
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Jolts by Aurelio Rico Lopez III {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Jolts is a collection of fifty original horrorku by internationally-known horrorjin Aurelio Rico Lopez III, and illustrated by Philippines artist Lette Teodosio.
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The Journey to Kailash by Mike Allen {Mythic Delirium Press}
The second book length collection from Mythic Delirium editor and three-time Rhysling Award winner Mike Allen, and his first in hardcover. In these 57 poems, Allen plunges into places both whimsical and eerie. Whether drawing from mythology, extrapolating bizarre futures (or fearlessly blending the two) Allen's poetry uses a wide range of strange subjects and skewed perspectives to examine the hopes and fears that shape our times.
These signed copies are available only from the author.
"It seems most proper that The Journey to Kailash should include a poem about Jackson Pollock. Like that painter of large-scale states of mind, Mike Allen pours everything he's got onto his poem-canvases. Mythologies, science-fiction scenarios, private memories and desires, and untestable ideas crowd and overlay one another upon the pages as if flung from an overloaded brush. Here is a vividly vertiginous collection of poems, all fun and mind-games."
—Fred Chappell
Poet Laureate of North Carolina, '97-'02
"The Journey to Kailash is an exceptional collection of poetry — a gallery of the grotesque and the luminously strange . . . Whether he's painting an absurdist scene of a satyr in rut in contemporary Boston, or peeling back layers to reveal the sublimely horrific spiritual extremity of a hell-bound soul, Mike Allen's voice is nothing short of mesmerizing."
—Laird Barron
author of The Imago Sequence
"Imaginative, charming, and vivid, Mike Allen's poems in The Journey to Kailash will transport you to a world where Ganesh might be your stepfather or an ATM might eat your personality, where black holes and viruses intersect with mythological characters as well as the paintings of artists like Chagall and O'Keeffe."
—Jeannine Hall Gailey
author of Becoming the Villainess
"Mike Allen is a poetic Shiva, whirling his thousand limbs to snatch gold from thin air and create these epics-in-miniature, each with its own metallic sheen."
— Catherynne M. Valente
The Journey to Kailash is a deeply stirring and memorable book.
— John Amen
editor, The Pedestal Magazine
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Jupiter's Eye by Terrie Leigh Relf {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Jupiter's Eye is a collection of speculative poetry that takes the reader into the mind of the poet, from visions of other worlds and times to Bigfoot and the Sexy Camper. Illustrated both delicately and sensuously by 7ARS, Jupiter's Eye pulls the reader into the lair of the poet.
Only one copy left!
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Morticians Tea by G. O. Clark {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Mortician's Tea, published as a trade paperback, is a savory blend of moods, magic, and mischief. Each bag is specially steeped in folklore, science, and pathos, from Dracula's to-do list to self-improvement for the dead, to strange goings-on at the local mall. Mortician's Tea is best served with toast, marmalade, and a little slice of life. Come get some . . . but sip carefully. Some contents may be hotter than expected.
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The Mouths that Remain by Gavin Salisbury {Sam's Dot Publishing}
"The Mouths That Remain is Gavin Salisbury's major collection of speculative poetry. His work is cutting-edge incisive, and always travels "the view not taken." Think David Kopaska-Merkel with an English accent. It's for those who don't want to eat the whole box of chocolate, but could stand the maple creams and one or two of the nougats."
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Music the Damned Can Dance To by Thomas Zimmerman {Thomas Zimmerman}
This chapbook collects 20 previously published dark poems—sonnets, haiku sequences, and sturdy free verse—by award-winning educator and editor Thomas Zimmerman.
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My Friend, The Poet by Terrie Leigh Relf {Sam's Dot Publishing}
The collection focuses on poetry about and/or inspired by people she knows or think she knows or who know her. The collection is so extensive that even you--yes, YOU--may be in there somewhere. Consider, for example, some of the titles in this collection:
My friend, the storm maker
My friend, who writes in her dreams
My friend who’s not from earth
My friend, the literary genius who wants to do me in the back of his Jeep Cherokee
My friend who turns blue when she sees pyramids
As Relf writes: "Are these people real? Did this stuff really happen? I’ve heard it said that some things are just too weird to have been made up, other events are just too mundane to have been made up, and the rest, well, it’s “just” poetry, and so it may be all purely invention."
Or not.
So come find out who's who in the life of this off-beat free spirit.
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A Nameless Place by Joanne Morcom {Sam's Dot Publishing}
This hauntingly beautiful and spookily poignant collection of scifaiku, tanka, and haibun by one of the masters of the subgenre is now available from Sam's Dot Publishing. It's a great read for evenings this winter. Just grab a bottle of white wine and sit close to the hearth.
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Oddities by Aurelio Rico Lopez III and Kristine Ong Muslim {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Oddities is a poetry chapbook for younger readers featuring a collection of the strange and the unusual that is sure to evoke smiles and thought. Ms Muslim is a James Award winner, and Mr Lopez is a James nominee...and together they have assembled some reading that is literally and figuratively out of this world.
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On the Other Side of the Eye by Bryan Thao Worra {Sam's Dot Publishing}
This is a collection of speculative poetry. Here's a glimpse of it, taken from the review by Edward Cox: ". . . the jewel of part II is 'Five Fragments,' which also forms the collection’s longest poem. Set at a war exhibition, this piece suggests that our reason for solving problems is so we can create room to make the same mistakes again. History is selective in the minds of humans, and like fads, we chose to scrutinise single instances when history is an ocean filled with identical droplets. Teaching and schooling amount to nothing when the execution of war becomes as fast and fleeting as the next computer upgrade. The world has become almost question-less, lost within its own apathy, and Worra makes us wonder where we go from here."
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Ossuary, a poetry collection by JoSelle Vanderhooft, based on art by Erzebet YellowBoy {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Ossuary is a poetic tribute to the bone panels, bone scrolls and other art of artist, writer and publisher Erzebet YellowBoy. The twenty-four poems in the collection center upon the themes of decay and transformation in much the same way YellowBoy's work does. Some draw upon world myth and fairy tale, from the dismembering of Osiris in "Osiris, Seed-Scattered" to the schemes of the Greek Fates in "The Moriae's Tools" to numerous permutations of "Sleeping Beauty," YellowBoy's favorite fairy tale which follow the heroine's descent through dreams and her numerous transformations in body, mind and soul.
Additionally Ossuary seeks to explore the natural world from which the artist draws inspiration – the season's cycles, nature's mystery and, of course, the inevitability of death and the transforming process of decay. In Ossuary, the reader will find such things as the wizened beauty of an old woman tending her garden, descents through the grave's loamy underworld, and the phoenix-like bursting of a bush into flame.
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Osteoporoses by Kevin L. Donihe {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Thirteen poems by the master of short horror poetry, Kevin L. Donihe, including six which have never emerged from the crypt until now. Donihe, who edits the biannual Bare Bone anthology, takes a perverse delight in creating images that are not all they seem. This collection is chillingly illustrated by Marcia Borell, Teri Santitoro, and Courtenay Pogue.
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The Other Secret House by s.c. virtes {s.c. virtes}
A chapbook of poems about the house next door
-- strange & microscopic things happen when the owners are away.
These poems will make you laugh, or cringe, or grin, but you'll never
think of your house as an lifeless thing again.
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The Other Side of the Lens by G. O. Clark {Dark Regions Press}
G.O. Clark's latest collection of thirty poems once again demonstrates the quirky and imaginative. Like Kurt Vonnegut his humorous side is infused with the dead pan while his more serious work vibrates with cosmological insight.
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Passion Fruit and other Loops by L. A. Story Houry {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Fantasy poetry that runs the gamut of emotions, from a candlelit dinner at the edge of the universe to a declaration of emotional independence. Story Houry plays pinball with passions and sometimes hits "tilt," but she always strikes a chord of longing...and of hope. Delicately illustrated by Marcia Borell, Michael Connolly, and Courtenay Pogue.
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The Phantom World by Gary William Crawford {Sam's Dot Publishing}
The Phantom World takes you on a poetic odyssey, and you will easily recognize some of the waypoints. There is a price to be paid for this journey, but Crawford makes you realize that it may be more than some are willing to pay. Without that payment, can you reach your destination? Come visit The Phantom World and find out . . . if you dare.
The Phantom World is illustrated by Marge B. Simon, with a cover design by Scott Virtes.
Contents:
The Phantom World
On Becoming a Phantom
Petals
The Dual Existence
Words, Dead or Alive
Files Alive in Death
The Literati
I Am Alone
A Very Natural Thing
In Their Transgression
The Phantom Prophet
The Phantom Artist
Lake of the Forgotten
Mysterious Occupations
The Many Selves in the Phantom World
Call Again
The Convergence of the Mysteries
Death Studies
Endless Night
The Phantom Computer is a God
The Forest of Suffering
The Gatekeeper of Hell
The God Returns
The Mystery of the Light
Songs of Love and Death
The Magical Arts
By No One
Sexual Transfusions
Secret Tears
Crash
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Phrases of the Moon by Greg Beatty {Spec House of Poetry}
Phrases of the Moon is an intricate poetic journey of a Lunar Colonist's visit to Earth. Through his eyes, we see the Earth and the Moon in a new light, told in exquisite and powerful language. New poems, along with poems previously published in the genre's top publications. Includes the 2005 Rhysling Award winning poem, "No Ruined Lunar City."
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Pitchblende by Bruce Boston {Dark Regions Press}
Here we have Bruce Boston's latest collection containing thirty-two new and previously published poems. The SFPA Grandmaster has once again delivered a book full of sophisticated and pathos driven work, conjuring visions of mortality and human nature gone astray. Hand-in-hand with Marge Simon's illustrations, we walk through a surrealistic labyrinth garden which would make even Dali blink and admire the inspiration.
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Poetry Red-Shifted In The Eyes Of A Dragon by Kendall Evans {Spec House of Poetry}
Illustrations by Cathy Buburuz
Introduction by Deborah P. Kolodji
The debut chapbook from Kendall Evans, winner of the 2006 Rhysling Award
for Long Form Poetry (with David C. Kopaska-Merkel). Four new poems,
along with poems previously published in the genre's top publications.
First Regular Edition Pressing, 100 Copies.
Reviews:
"Kendall Evans is one of speculative poetry's most audacious experimenters."
--Mike Allen, Editor of Mythic Delerium
Evans speaks the language of the fantastic, from astral imagery to myth,
and beyond. From the subtle “Binary” (‘entangle your spirits flesh with
mine/ in spider-veined nebulae/ of deepest space and time’), to the
resounding “Beatrice, Cockatrice”, (‘Beatrice, your cold eyes stone
me’), Evans makes his poems sing. Long or short, he crafts each poem
skillfully, often with a touch of magic. Superbly recommended.
--Marge Simon, Author of Like Birds in the Rain
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The Poet's Workshop - and Beyond by Terrie Leigh Relf, M.A. {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Terrie Leigh Relf, M.A., distills years of teaching and writing experience into a coherent yet entertainingly off-beat presentation of how to compose speculative poetry, what to do with it once you have composed it, and how to keep it from decomposing. Each section, from "Ordering Chaos" [with a side of Catastrophe, please, and hold the olives] to "The Kung Fu of Writing," from "Plotting with Playdough" to Unzipping a Rengay, is high on specifics and often includes anecdotal encouragement and examples that drive home the precise point she is making. This handbook contains everything you ever wanted to know about composing poetry, but were afraid to ask.
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Psychoentropy by Julie Shiel {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Shiel's writing is composed of fragments of the soul, inspired by experiences or feelings. This collection covers a range of dark emotion and aberrant thought. Collected, they create a cohesive picture of erosion and disorder. They tell a story. Psychoentropy, Shiel's second collection, is illustrated by Marcia Borell and 7ARS.
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Raven's Runes by Karen A. Romanko {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Raven's Runes is an illustrated collection of speculative poetry that derives some of its themes and visions from the mythic and female archetypes in haunting and intense language and imagery. From the abyss of steerage travel for the indigent to the heroic Phoenix poems, this collection takes the reader through the mind of one of the finest contemporary poets. Raven's Runes is boldly and tenderly illustrated by 7ARS and Sandy DeLuca.
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