Category: Poetry

  • This third book in the Burning Eye pamphlet series (following Sally Jenkinson’s Sweat-borne Secrets and Mairi Campbell-Jack’s “This Is A Poem…”) presents Raymond Antrobus, a poet from Hackney with a talent for plucking poetry from the mouths of ordinary people.

  • Bendición: The Complete Poetry of Tato Laviera Arte Público Press 2014-11-30 346 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55885-800-8 Tato Laviera (1950-2013) Introduction by: Laura Lomas Preface by: Nicolás Kanellos “i think in spanish / i write in english / i want to go back to puerto rico / but I wonder if my kink could live /…

  • Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora Arte Público Press 2012-04-30 248 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55885-746-9 Edited by: Marta Moreno Vega, Alba Marinieves and Yvette Modestin Afro-Latina women relate their personal stories and advocacy for racial equality “My housewife mother turned into a raging warrior woman when the principal of my elementary school questioned whether her…

  • There is a Chinese proverb that says: ‘It is more profitable to raise geese than daughters.’ But geese, like daughters, know the obligation to return home. In her exquisite first collection, Sarah Howe explores a dual heritage, journeying back to Hong Kong in search of her roots.

  • In the Creole Twilight: Poems and Songs from Louisiana Folklore Louisiana State University Press September 2015 88 pages 6.00 x 9.00 inches 30 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780807161548 Joshua Clegg Caffery, Visiting Professor in Folklore Indiana University, Bloomington Many recurring motifs found in south Louisiana’s culture spring from the state’s rich folklore. Influenced by settlers of…

  • Death, desire, and divination are the threads running through Jónína Kirton’s debut collection of poems and lyric prose. Delicate and dark, the pieces are like whispers in the night – a haunted, quiet telling of truths the mind has locked away but the body remembers. Loosely autobiographical, these are the weavings of a wagon-goddess who…

  • Scree: The Collected Earlier Poems, 1962–1991 Talonbooks 2015 640 pages 6 W x 9 H inches Hardcover ISBN 13: 9780889229471; ISBN 10: 0889229473 Fred Wah Edited and Introduction by: Jeff Derksen, Associate Professor of English Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Fred Wah’s career has spanned six decades and a range of formal styles…

  • The Adoption Papers Bloodaxe Books 1991 64 pages 21.6 x 13.9 x 0.5 cm Paperback ISBN: 978-1852241568 Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing Newcastle University

  • North End Love Songs J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing 2012-03-20 108 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-897289-76-1 Katherena Vermette Winner of the 2013 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. A self-described “tuff grrl with two ffs” there is no doubt that after poet Katherena Vermette’s first collection of poetry, North End Love Songs, she will also be known as…

  • Fast Talking PI Arc Publications July 2012 80 pages 216 x 138 mm (paperback), 223 x 145 mm (hardback) Paperback ISBN: 978-1904614-35-7 Hardback ISBN: 978-1904614-77-7 Selina Tusitala Marsh, Senior Lecturer of English Drama and Writing Studies University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Fast Talking PI (pronounced pee-eye) reflects the poet’s focus on issues affecting Pacific…