Poesía

THE PAINTED LADY

In The Painted Lady Suzanne Edgar focuses on art, the natural world, the intimacy of love, human caprice. These poems will stop you in your tracks with the force of their emotional intensity.  ‘…a highly intelligent, inventive and gifted poet…’ – Les Murray ‘…her lively imagistic work has a quirky edginess, a sensuous delicacy…the finely crafted and polished poems in free verse and traditional forms…capture voice and character while modulating mood and tone…’ – Jan Owen

LOPLOP IN A RED CITY

The poems in Kenneth Pobo's Loplop in a Red City spring from artworks old and new, figurative to abstract, Vincent Van Gogh to Leonora Carrington to Max Ernst. Like those works, the poems in Loplop are agonized and idyllic, uneasily at home in the surreal, animated, beautiful, and complex.Praise for Loplop in a Red City:[Kenneth Pobo] has long been a master of the short line free verse personal poem; in this collection, he’s let the paintings charge his work with experimental verve and at times, a surreal edginess. The poems are exuberant, filled with daring imaginative leaps.... Loplop in a Red City is a testament to the power of art’s ability to inspire. — J. Esch, Turk's Head ReviewThese wonderful poems go way beyond mere ekphrasis.  They’re little masterpieces in their own right, bursting with exuberant life from the page and into our memories without our having to know anything about the paintings that inspired them. — Robert Cooperman, author of In the Colorado Gold Fever Mountains, winner of the Colorado Book Award for PoetryThere’s no ego here; it’s laid bare, without any ribbons or bows, and in that simplicity, somehow more complex than most.... Pobo’s talents for finding the right words, his precision as an artist, sing from the canvas in this collection. — Jerrod Edson, author of The Moon Is RealLoplop in a Red City offers us a taste of super powers: Pobo's poems present lyrical, verbal play, and we also gain new insight into art, art history, and the painters who created the great works.... Pobo’s poems will provide artistic companionship in the days and years ahead. — Marilyn Kallet, author of 17 books, including The Love That Moves MeThere are brilliant daubs of color here, moments where lyrical poems respond to art. Perhaps the concerns of painters are similar to those of poets: who am I, and what has this creative journey meant? — Patricia Clark, Professor and Poet in Residence at Grand Valley State University, author of My Father on a Bicycle and The Canopy 

LAKE OF FALLEN CONSTELLATIONS

"Some people get up every morning and go out into the world looking for God. Ronda Brotach does this and gives us her field reports in poems that make us want to believe that faith and survival are one and the same. She is a poet to be thanked." -Rebecca Wells, author of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Little Altars Everywhere, Ya-Yas in Bloom, and The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder

POEMS AND VERSES

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ORIGINAL CLICHÉS

‘If Cliché is a democratically elected form of truth, then Rob Walker is sitting as an Independent and disrupting proceedings from the cross-benches. He’s been warned by the Speaker.’ – Mike Ladd (poet, founding presenter/producer of ABC RN’s Poetica) ‘Rob Walker’s Original Clichés is a wry, sardonic, meta-poetic and often very funny exploration of politics, ageing, current affairs, fear, travel, human weaknesses, technology and much more. This is powerful poetry that cuts with razor sharpness through modern pretensions and the clichés we surround ourselves.’ – Magdalena Ball (poet, author, critic, editor of compulsivereader.com)  ‘Walker’s Original Clichés is a sample bag of poems which twist and turn, probing themselves, and the world, from odd and ingenious angles. He relishes word play and the play of ideas it spawns, one wry eye trained inward while the other peers archly out onto an almost speculative world where what looks like chance could well be synchronicity. ‘– Michele Seminara (poet, critic and managing editor of Verity La creative arts journal)  ‘Rob Walker journeys through the world of the cliché – those that we speak, and those that we live – and shows us how the personal is political and the political personal. He travels around the world in search of cultural clichés and presents us with clichés of family, love, mental illness and even that old poetic stand-by, the moon. These eminently readable poems delight you, amuse and inspire us to re-examine those things which we take for granted. You will never look at a mouse plague the same way!’ – Tracey Korsten (poet, actor, speaker, director, blogger at middleagedlove.com)

IF GOD IS A POET

In this diverse collection of poems, Ron Barton explores the various aspects of his world that make him who he is. Regardless of the seriousness of tone, which is often tongue-in-cheek, each poem contains some element of his life – whether it be a reaction to childhood and fatherhood, or a reflection of his love of teaching and football. If God is a Poet encourages readers to question their values regarding Australian identity and gender roles without aggressively promoting a specific agenda. Here we see the professional writer experimenting with form, imagery and theme while remaining highly accessible and readable.

MOMENTS OF PERFECT POISE

'Gillian Telford's poems deliver what the title of her collection suggests. Always mindful, often subtle in their argument and surprising in their intensity, these poems display a range of moods, attitudes and technical approaches to her subjects. Telford is alert to the nuanced signals between people: she can memorably convey family and other social dynamics, and she's an enviable practitioner of tanka and other forms practised by her admired models.' - Michael Sharkey 'Like the restless circling of the ice skater in "The Rush", these poems have the glide and weave of deep contemplation, the sharp-edge turns of acute perception, and the lifting skirt of a playful sensuality. Throw in an empathetic, artistic eye and the wisdom to seek, in particulars, every truth we need to establish, and you have all the makings of deeply pleasurable poetry.' - Judy Johnson Gillian Telford was born in England, of Irish parents, and emigrated to Australia after completing her secondary education. Recently retired, she has lived and worked in NSW and Tasmania in the fields of health and education as a speech pathologist, ESL teacher and administrator. She started writing poetry in 2001, shortly after moving from Sydney to Pearl Beach on the NSW Central Coast. She enjoys participating in public readings of poetry and collaborations with other artists and has co-edited two of the Central Coast Poets' biennial anthologies. Moments of Perfect Poise is her first collection and includes poems previously published in literary journals and anthologies.

ROYAL COMMANDMENTS; OR, MORNING THOUGHTS FOR THE KING’S SERVANTS

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POETRY OF THE BEATING HEART

If love was a happening that just occurred, then you will find it here. If you want to indulge in the various aspects of being, that make you think and feel the emotions of a man's longing... you will find it here. The truth is found in the heart felt poetic writes of a man's desire and individual dreams. Romance is not the simple answer. This collection of poetry actually looks at a man and sees him for not just his strengths,ability to love and feeling the roar, as he rises up and takes hold of his world. These poems will not only incite the heart of all, but they will create the emotions of longing and love. Follow me on this journey, and melt from within, the boundaries found inside of your heart...

KEEPING THE FAITH IN A DOUBTING WORLD

Keeping the Faith In a Doubting World is a series of poems written by me over the years. Each with its time and date of inspiration and writing. This book shows that we don’t and shouldn’t give up. That life, in general, is a test to make us stronger and build our character. I hope as others read my life story through poetry, they too will be inspired to fight to win, to overcome as I have. Happiness is a choice regardless of our situations. Happiness and laughter helps change the situation we may find ourselves. Choose happiness.

EMOTIVE

It is a privilege to share my poetry. It would be an honour if you added Emotive to your collection of special books, or you may wish to gift it to somebody you love. We all experience a kaleidoscope of feeling in life.  It is what makes us human.  Emotive covers some of these themes, including love, loss, happiness, loneliness, isolation and ageing. I have always found peace and inspiration through immersing myself in reading and writing verse, which I have used as a form of self-therapy since the age of sixteen. Emotive was written from the heart to emote a feeling of comfort. We humans are all different and unique but the one thing we have in common is that we all experience feelings. Poetry, music and books enable us to connect on that level.  Social networking also enables us to connect on an emotional level and since the 90's we have been lucky to incorporate the use of fun emoticons (emotive icons) in our communications on Facebook and text messages to convey more feeling and the intended tone. I think most of us appreciate receiving a text accompanied with a big smiley face blowing a kiss ... I hope Emotive awakens your senses and soothes your soul. 

THE MENTAL TRAVELER

The Mental Traveler is a lost-then-found manuscript of 20th-century American poetry that was completed in 1990, but remained unpublished. Now released for the first time, The Mental Traveler reveals a notable range of David Omer Bearden’s work, starting with his formative years in 1958 while attending the University of Tulsa.The Mental Traveler's theme pays homage to William Blake's out-worldly poem The Mental Traveller with great respect. As we digest Bearden's work, we realize that he not only embodies and mirrors the concepts of Blakes poem he becomes an entity all of his own. The Mental Traveler has an autobiographical component to it that takes you on a journey from when he was born in 1940 up to 1990; sharing his personal life about love, friendship, family, joy, grief, suffering, and redemption.Bearden's poetry takes your headspace into higher frequencies that challenge the common terrestrial ideas; where the mundane becomes miraculous. The ordinary becomes holy and shifts your consciousness out of the conventional humdrum. His unique brand of personal folklore and wordsmithing as well as creating his own (Beardenisms) language, demands the reader to redefine their prescriptions of literary normality.David Omer Bearden is the surviving brother of twins born in the Sonoran Desert of Blythe, California in 1940. David dedicated his creative life to writing poetry, starting from the post-Beat era, until he passed away in 2008 in Scranton, Pennsylvania.He was a widely-traveled poet and musician who possessed intelligent wit and biting insight. His character and literary work were respectfully admired by colleagues such as Ted Berrigan, Neal Cassady, Ken Kesey, Steven Lieper, Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, Maureen Owen, Ron Padgett, Charles Plymell, Roxie Powell, Alan Russo, and singer/songwriter Judee Sill*, with whom Bearden shared a deep and poetic romance.He is also known as the Apocalypse Rose.* Special Note: The Mental Traveler includes an intimate joint diary between David Bearden and Judee Sill while they were on tour in England, 1973.

ETERNAL ECHOES

Eternal Echoes is a soul searching compilation of poetry and prose, written by author and poet, Jay Long. Eternal Echoes is 200 hand selected pieces of poetry which truly capture the human condition. Eternal Echoes is a journey along life's path. The pages are filled with poems and pieces of writing on subjects such as acceptance, love, and loss, as well as, pieces full of motivation and inspiration. Jay Long continues to establish himself as one of today's prolific voices of modern poetry.