"Walter is both a young and experienced poet as regards to his commitment to contemporary poetry as he has been editing the journal mgversion2>datura since 1996. His natural independent mind drives him to look at the poetry from other parts of the world, mostly poetry in English, from these lands of islands and sun sometimes, a poetry he translates and renders to us as many proofs of his yearning for freedom." ~ Patrice Maltaverne, French publisher, reviewer and poet.
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The Sun Chasers
poetry from Australia
Michelle Gaddes
A restless curiosity about the natural world and a sharp almost clinically accurate attention to the workings of the human mind and heart pervade THE SUN CHASERS. Michelle Gaddes gives voice to the forces of nature– dark, potentially dangerous but often hiding possibilities for ways of redemption. In these poems, the poet is not an aloof observer but a subject invested in places, their people, histories and dynamics. Gaddes uses the lyric form and an enticing, musical register to create engaged expressions of her truths. THE SUN CHASERS will call you back time and time again, rewarding multiple readings by revealing layer upon layers of both imagery and meaning.
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Vespers
poetry
David Appelbaum
Sparse and oracular, Appelbaum’s lapidary verses alternate between precise imagery and linguistic inventiveness, illuminating the shared situation of poets and philosophers. His collection VESPERS reveals how humanness is both physical and metaphysical, finite and infinite. Straddling both the classical and contemporary worlds, each poem in VESPERS resonates on the cosmic scale while drawing strength from our own intimate, human experiences. We are taken on a journey along paths familiar yet seemingly fresh and untrammeled. These poems create a magic lantern of meaning that flashes around us and helps us find our way in the dark.
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After the Danse
poetry from New Zealand
Mercedes Webb-Pullman
In AFTER THE DANSE, we discover the poetry and prose of Mercedes Webb-Pullman, whose feminine sensibilities and mytho-poetic lyricism dance like the flames of a candle. It is her voice - irreverent, direct, musical - singing with a playfully sinister passion, illuminating the dark chambers of the human heart. Webb-Pullman masterfully observes the commedia within the tragic, the mythic within the heartbreak. She draws readers in gently, via querulous Greek gods and demigods, before proceeding to the lives of survivors of the 20th Century’s furies, a pirouette into the blood and marrow of ruthless authenticity, a haunting reliquary that only gains momentum the further you read.
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Vibrazioni
poetry from Italy
Matteo Spinetti
VIBRAZIONI is a large, Fellini-esque circus from award-winning Italian poet Matteo Spinetti whose music reaches to every reader’s ears, enchanting, seducing, conquering, enthralling. This is poetry as a big top, with its shining ornaments of the mind, covered with tempting ideals; here, your dreams perform, like trained and helpless puppies on their leads. This big circus welcomes everyone, and the show is about to begin. In both lyrical English and sumptuous Italian, VIBRAZIONI / Vibrations will not leave you unmoved.
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Caught and Mastered
poetry
Justin Burnside
In Burnside's fraught verse-drama, CAUGHT AND MASTERED, the war between the sexes continues in its sempiternal cycle, centered as always on the figure of a girl whose vision does the heavy lifting for all who fear to open their eyes to the perfectly imperfect world around them. Here you will find a cast of characters who are fighting equally for Beauty and Truth, and you will find yourself holding your breath to see who wins. Shot through with whispers of literary influence from classical mythology to modernist poetry, the Yellow Wallpaper to the plays of Beckett, Burnside’s book is feverish, deadpan, and audaciously peculiar. This is a debut of exceptional wisdom and truly modern poetry.
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Schisms
poetry from New Zealand
Vaughan Rapatahana
SCHISMS makes significant patterns out of the randomness of life’s events and gives succinct and effective voice to the peculiarly modern condition of the global nomad at once home everywhere and home nowhere. Rapatahana is Mâori (Te tiawa, Ngati Te Whiti) with a compelling world voice which he uses skillfully to tell us his stories and make his often pungent points. This is poetry with attitude ... passionate, uncompromising and sardonic. There may even be a certain darkness here, but one with an abundance, a playfulness in language and thought, even laugh-out-loud funny. SCHISMS sustains a challenging approach to 21st Century international poetry. It is a word musical journey you will both savour and long remember.
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Jugularity
poetry
Chris Crittenden
JUGULARITY is absolutely gorgeous, a poetry lover's dream. Enter the coloratura world of poet Chris Crittenden. In hot lurches and hip-grinds, he sings his swollen song in a sort of sidewinder Sanskrit, each word conscientiously curated: bracing, clear-eyed, taut, and brave. You will shift readily into the realms of mystical naturalism, where symbolic imagery emerges from word storms bearing more than a few shards embed in your reader's eye. Crittenden is unflinching and demands readers be the same. Nuclear kicks, numb girls, faux feng shui, airbrushed pandemonium—who can decipher this Rosetta of dull hells? JUGULARITY conspires to make us wiser, more prepared to survive.
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A Prayer for Late October
poetry from New Zealand
Benjamin Blake
A PRAYER FOR LATE OCTOBER is a collection of emotionally poignant poetry that relishes funereal lyricism with a spice of surrealism. A native New Zealander, Benjamin Blake brings an exhilarating freshness to verse, marking his as a voice to watch.
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