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Like the burgeoning sounds of morning from which Dawn Chorus takes its name, these poems emerge from the darkness of urban isolation into brilliant wilderness. More than half of the world's humans now live in cities, waking to the rhythm of artificial light, lulled by the hum of machines. We sense that some important part of us has atrophied but cannot name it. Dawn Chorus is a warning and a celebration. Pettway's lines remind us how deeply we harm ourselves when we turn away from nature and invite us to revel in the rediscovery of our wildest selves."The Alice Pettway of Dawn Chorus is an urban fabulist and pastoral realist--a modern-day Arcimboldo who rebuilds herself repeatedly in these poems, at the fulcrum between outworn civilization and fragile wilderness. Dawn Chorus is an escape from denial: it refuses to be cut off any longer. Even as the city shapes these poems, nature sings its way back to the foreground. Without merganser and yarrow, without a rebalancing, we're undone." --William Pierce, Coeditor, AGNI"These poems allow us to inhale the aroma of Alaska's shores, its wild iris buds, the intricacy of each stone upon stone, and we can feel Pettway's interaction intensify with every moose skull, cottonwood tree, and merganser duck" -- Paul B. Roth, author of Moments in Place"These beautiful poems will uplift you with their engaging story and their marvelous craft." -- John Morgan, author of The Hungers of the World: New and Selected Later Poems

Balancing curiosity, beauty, surprise, and the weight of mortality, this book's kinship embraces multitudes: fir, owl, manatee, and pollen; sun, sea, lily, and snake; the poet's parents, Paul and Grace Whitman; the Good Gray Poet Whitman. Each poem bears witness to concentricity--the poet inviting trees to live inside her, a tree expanding itself to accept her body. Some of the poet's kindred--the Biblical Eve, water's sister, a lake, the moon, everyday moths, and more--speak for themselves. What's mundane is never merely that. In this kinship, the commonplace carries a wild sentience, a mythic and sacred essence. Like the hummingbird, these poems pull--from our all too dark world--a thread of sweetness and bounty.

"Each poem in Corvus and Crater is a lens, a tractate, the short alphabet of light, a meditation. Begun from a limitation--54 poems with 54 syllables to commemorate a birthday of the same number--these poems move with raptor focus through the Alaskan landscape. The weather erases, offering a space for the writer--into and away from home, into rituals and remembering, in an attempt to locate. Through brush and into frozen air, Hollowell maps footsteps, water shifts, rivering constellations, and tree limb visitors. These pared down poems are deeply felt. Their vigil will stay on you "Like a blunt print / of a careless god's thumb." - Lauren Camp, author of Took House and One Hundred Hungers"As soon as you begin Erin Coughlin Hollowell's stunning new collection you know you are in the hands of a poet who's totally in command of their craft. Born out of the chaos of a personal grief, these multi-layered and highly textured poems delve into the fathomless depths of the collective imagination. Deeply moving, meditative and mysterious, these poems perform the dual-task of invoking numinous, mythic worlds, while achieving a compelling immediacy and rare intimacy. Mixing rich lyricism with economical restraint, each nine-lined poem has the spontaneous flair and brushstroke virtuosity of a Japanese ink-painting." Adam Wyeth, author of About: Blank and The Art of Dying"In these compressed, keen, meditative poems, Erin Coughlin Hollowell reveals and queries the world she (and she as Crow) moves through: frosty, peak-rimmed, stitched with wrens and kinglets, spruce and flame. Here, the titles alone are poems: "A box of snapped matches and one burnt nub," "We once believed in binomials," "Ritual for summoning the winter circle." And the poems that follow are wondrously rooted and strange. Comprised entirely of nine-syllable sestets inspired by Charles Wright's Sestets, a revisitation (and reclaiming) of Ted Hughes's surly Crow, Hollowell's poems grow from an Alaskan winter intimately observed by a woman who knows that the physical and the philosophical are never at odds. At once actual, mystical, and science-rooted, the poems of Corvus and Crater are a force against nihilism, seeking what comes in "the absence of absence." Elizabeth Bradfield, author of Toward Antarctica and Once Removed

This is the second poetry collection from Galway-based poet, artist and arts-curator. Her first collection, About Love, was published by Salmon in 2017.

"Ago is a richly detailed and elegantly crafted exploration of mutability fine tuned to the times and places where the men and women brought to life here have loved and lived. The luminous, wise, and moving poems--in form and language recalling Dickinson, Hopkins, Kinsella, among others--transport us to the heart of deep time and experience across the Midwest, New England, and Ireland." - Eamonn Wall, author of Junction City (2015)"Ago pays homage to those in life who have been "caught" in mortality's net. With the luster and simplicity of a fine glaze on a porcelain bowl, these poems capture luminous moments from an ongoing darkness that "we will travel into but not return from." - Leslie Miller, author of Y (2012)Thomas Dillon Redshaw employs concise and lucid form to great effect, intertwining the rigor of a particular American strain with something close to the lyric order of Irish poetry. Among his poetic gifts are eloquence, insight, directness. He fetches images from his own local, familiar Midwest scenes with the same intensity of feeling with which he looks at works of art." - Gerard Smyth, author of The Sundays of Eternity (2020)

This is the sixth poetry collection from senior poet, anthologist and literary figure Seamus Cashman, founder of Wolfhound Press.

"Edward O'Dwyer's poems in Exquisite Prisons pack the quotidian with a creeping terror; motorists nervously migrate to investigate the car stalled at the lights, a father is filmed throwing his child higher and higher, a husband wonders if his wife also fantasizes about killing him. These poems are savagely ironic, authoritative and delivered in an unsettling coaxing voice that occupies that same dazzling imaginative territory as Shirley Jackson in The Lottery." - Eleanor Hooker"These are poems which explore the preciousness and unreliability of what we think of as 'the present'. They often unpick fleeting moments, but their impact is enduring. Highly recommended." - Helen Mort"In Exquisite Prisons, Edward O'Dwyer considers the reasons people need other people: to validate, reflect, desire, resist, and mourn. These poems are surreal, sneakily funny and unashamedly sad. The images will stay with you. O'Dwyer's poetic voice is utterly contemporary and the poems have a wittily executed lightness of touch which charms the reader." - Susan Millar DuMars & Kevin Higgins"Edward O'Dwyer's Exquisite Prisons is a country where anything resembling a cliché is turned back at the border. This is a brilliant, original, courageous, dramatic, often painful collection, with no simple 'happy ever after' endings. The dark truths shine. Many of the poems are elegiac in tone throughout. The relationship poems are tortured and intriguing. Tough poems but also so much joy - the joy is in the language, the words written in steel. Welcome to an unforgettable country." - Tim Cunningham

I Imagine Myself is for anyone who has ever imagined they were someone (or something) else. A powerful collection that asserts the freedom to have a visible midlife as a woman, to have difficulties in a relationship and work through them, and to weather the storms of aging. In ambitious and dynamic poems, I Imagine Myself gives voice to the experience of trying to discover a new self, tracing an arc through illness, middle age, connections to other people and the natural world."Celese Augé's witty and intelligent poetry treats serious subjects with a light touch, allowing her to investigate and tease out her subjects with impressive verve and energy. Her controlled, narrative-driven poems deal with the everyday in an imaginative, outspoken and engaging manner. Augé is a woman journeying through life with an unflinching gaze, seeking out what the world expects of a middle-aged woman and her place in 21st century society and often upending the expectations." - Jean O'Brien, author of Fish on a Bicycle: New & Selected Poems."Charged with imagination and emotional honesty, Celeste Augé explores the intimacies of her body, at the whim of hormones, with craft and self-awareness. Storms, external and internal, whip through these pages, swirling up 'brain fog', intimations of mortality, at a time when 'we carry our pains around like sacks filled with cats'. There is no superfluous poem here, each one acutely observed, replete with illuminated images, limned by an exacting hand. A real gem." - Geraldine Mills, author of An Urgency of Stars and Bone Road."What is so beautiful about these poems is the ice brilliant truth that our lives have our lonely ghost selves living beside us, dipping into our reality every so often and knifing us with regret, despair, joy, love and acceptance." - Orla Foyle, author of Belios and Red Riding Hood's Dilemma

Pete Mullineaux's fifth collection is chock full of 'strange but true' surprises: from Plato to pangolins, Microsoft Windows to walruses, foxes to fireworks - offering a serious but at the same time playful exploration of Nature alongside human nature, with a particular focus on ecological concerns and our planet's vulnerability.

Erosions is John A. Griffin's first full-length book of poems. Written shortly after he emigrated to the United States, the poems comprise a kind of Bildungsroman exploring themes of boyhood innocence, fantasy, landscapes, nature, death, loss, absence, exile, and a coming into one's powers as one seeks to apprehend the changes wrought by time, epiphany, and departure. Absence, lines, natural forces, spirituality, and extinction are all leitmotifs in the book, as these combine to displace a burgeoning identity rather than overtly defining one. Erosions seeks to lyricize those forces that shape emerging consciousness and sensibility, so that the aural semantics of the poems are as essential to their decoding as the verbal, linguistic semantics, and it is this stress on the music and rhythms of language the poet hopes will evoke their core and abiding meaning.

Mark Ward's long-awaited first collection Nightlight is a journey through a city and a reaching towards whatever light can be found; be that in a sex club, with a board game, a new friendship or a changing relationship. Throughout this journey, Ward feels his way back to touchstones of queer history as well as trying to make himself at home in his surroundings and his increasingly rebellious brain. These poems, deeply attuned to craft and form, mark the arrival of a fearless new voice in Irish poetry addressing sexuality, mental health, and the intricacies of relationships with a fresh eye and fierce command."Nightlight shows Mark Ward confronting the dark with panache. The defiance of the speakers at the start of this collection, however, is hard-won. The self here is under relentless attack, both from subtle prejudice and the winds that threaten all our most intimate connections. A librarian learns a new friend is desperate to die, a loving mother and son face a future as 'two ellipses, scattered into full stops.' Accessible and authentic, these poems glow with feeling." - John McCullough"In Nightlight, Mark Ward gives us poems that are closely attuned to the body, to physical encounter, to the way history exists inside and beyond us. Ward's poems sing from the testimony of memory, decipher its evidences, and trace its passage, both as it enters us and as it leaves. These lyrics are unashamed and visceral." - Seán Hewitt"In one poem, Mark Ward writes 'body parts should become agents of commotion, ' at another point he writes 'each touch is a spotlight.' In this powerful, energetic collection, the reader is asked to witness the performances, loving, erotic, fearful, which the body must endure." - Andrew McMillan

The Paradiso is the crown of the The Divine Comedy.

"The new and selected poems of Gallery of Postcards and Maps introduce themselves with a warmth that deepens into wisdom. Susan Rich finds music in everything inside and outside her windows: Leonora Carrington, Vegetarian Vampires, lovers and ex-lovers, Lorca and Courbet. This book displays the hallmarks of her oeuvre: her mastery of form; her acuity of heart and eye. These terrific poems are full of compassion, lyricism and attention. The selected reflects an ever-present restlessness of spirit, flesh, and intellect."--Cover, page 4.

With elegies to a brother, sister, and father at the core, Robert Fanning's third collection examines what sustains in us in spite of loss.

A collection of poems exploring the themes of nature, death, art, love, travel - where the road, both actual and metaphorical, is a central motif.