A beguiling collection of poetry inspired by tarot, exploring human experiences and relationships.In Jake Arthur's second collection, a tarot reader invites us to a reading over tea. Vivid scenes and impressions emerge, depicting episodes from different lives: a woman training a robin, parents at a school interview, a man cast overboard. Each card prompts characters to contemplate their uncertainties, hopes, and joys.Inspired by the Rider-Waite tarot deck, ...

I am seconds away from everything. I am the bullseye of the world. A Lack of Good Sons is a book of poetry that carries us through many realms – Greek myth, the Bible, dream, and the earthly world, with all its beauty and violence. An eclectic range of speakers, from deities to inanimate objects, describe encounters and turning points in their lives. A ship' s mast remembers itself as a tree. A boy is held hostage by his hair. A gardener is abducted by aliens. And the three Fates – spinnin...

A beguiling collection of poetry inspired by tarot, exploring human experiences and relationships.In Jake Arthur's second collection, a tarot reader invites us to a reading over tea. Vivid scenes and impressions emerge, depicting episodes from different lives: a woman training a robin, parents at a school interview, a man cast overboard. Each card prompts characters to contemplate their uncertainties, hopes, and joys.Inspired by the Rider-Waite tarot deck, ...

The third volume in the ground-breaking, genre-bending, boundary-pushing CLOCKWORK PHOENIX anthology series, available at last in digital format."Allen's third volume of extraordinary short stories reaches new heights of rarity and wonder ... Without a wrong note, all the stories in this anthology admirably fulfill Allen's promise of 'beauty and strangeness.'"— Publishers WeeklyIncludes critically-acclaimed and award-nominated stories by Marie Brennan, Tori Truslow, ...

Wilde Stories showcases the previous year's best offerings in short gay fantasy, horror, weird, and science fiction. This volume offers readers the secret missives of Roman emperors, an ungrateful ghost haunting her father's lover, werewolves, possible vampires, and more tales of the strange and eerie blended with bit of loss and passion. Editor Steve Berman has been collecting the finest stories in the field for nearly a decade. The authors included are Steve Berman, Tom Cardamone, Andrew...

The Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation for the Winter Quarter, 2012.Yannis Ritsos (1909-1990) is one of Greece's finest and most celebrated poets, and was nine times nominated for a Nobel Prize. Louis Aragon called him 'the greatest poet of our age'. He wrote in the face of ill health, personal tragedy and the systematic persecution by successive hard-line, right-wing regimes that led to many years in prison, or in island detention camps. Despite this, his lifetime's work ...

26 poems, A-Z. It’s a word-nerd’s wet dream. Dictionary geek dives below the two-syllable surface to quarry in the silt of the obscure. Retrofits his findings to suit his inclinations. Dresses up his ignorance as poetry…“Like a new Leonard Cohen throwing handfuls of water into the sun, Tim Sinclair tosses words, imagination, soul and an affectionate sense of play onto the page where they glitter and sparkle. These small gems of paragraphs perplex, amuse, intrigue and delight. I hav...

'The Fringe, Poetry Cafe' is an anthology from poets based in the North West of England. Some of this work has appeared in poetry pamphlets distributed in pubs, cafes, libraries, shops, buses and trains. In fact, anywhere the public may have time to read some interesting pieces of writing. There are many prize winning poems here. The pamphlets and ebooks are published by SeaQuake Books. The idea behind the initiative is to bring poetry to a wider audience. The poets included in this partic...

mudpits & saviours was written with one thought in mind: we are all in need of a saviour. Deep down, you know it and I know it. We all need help sometimes. When it feels like we’re stuck in the mud-pit of life with no hope of ever getting out, when there’s nowhere else to turn and we feel like we’re surrounded and sunk in the mud-pits of life, there is help. Whatever your ‘mud-pit’ is, whether it’s a bad week at work, a destructive lifestyle that has surrounded you, a bad attitude that...

I don’t know when I’ll stop or if I’ll stop.All I know is I’m going to carry on.Not because I want to.I need to.Short burst of poetry. From the heart. And a few other things.

'They say birds always find their way back home but home is a nowhere — a memory; a never was.'Set in the immediate aftermath of 2017's Hurricane Irma, the most catastrophic storm to strike the British Virgin Islands, Richard Georges' Epiphaneia stands as a collection of rich, transcendental verse. Beyond the loss and devastation that such a natural disaster brings, Georges' ideas span beyond the physical world, asking us to consider the ways in which families and communit...

SOMEthe quietonesare thosewho bear their wisdomlike a shellneither arrogantnor easywith a hardlook,that showshow carefullythey have learnedto guard themselveswhat they know.From Germany to California, with stops in Paris, Turkey, and Greece, these poems are a collection of the yearnings within us all questions asked, answers given, and much that never will.