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Authors: Adam Henry Carriere
Murder at the Forum
A Harry Krisman Mystery
Tom Sheehan
Misery comes in short order, and murder is
often a step behind. Too, murder is not particular - certainly not to the
Campus de Fleurs-de-Lys, a secret society veiled for centuries deep within the
French nation. Using a soldier stained with defeat at
Dien Bien Phu
as their pawn, the Campus re-emerges in
Montreal
,
Quebec
, during the 1960’s. Squaring off against
them is Harry Krisman, whose private investigations draw him ever closer to
this sinister penumbra. With Les Habitants and their screaming fans as the
milieu, MURDER AT THE FORUM introduces mystery mavens and sports fans alike to
a new hero from the distant past whose adventures will thrill the house.
Antiope
poetry from
Ireland
Peter O’Neill
According to Homer, Antiope slept with
Zeus and from their encounter bore two sons, Amphion and Zethus, who are the
subject of Euripides play Antiope, of which only fragments now remain. ANTIOPE
is Peter O’ Neill’s first short collection of 28 poems, the first part of a
greater work in 4 parts called The Dark Pool. Like the nineteenth century
French Symbolists who have so clearly influenced him, O’Neill’s skill at
blending both pagan and Christian mythological motifs gives this singular
collection a most distinctive and decisively modern Irish voice that daringly
disturbs old gender and stylistic models while making the mundane seem epic -
and putting the sublime within our reach.
Hitchcock Hotel
poetry to be murdered by...
Lyn Lifhsin
Hitchcock. The mere name, a touchstone of
the macabre. Creator of countless memories and thrills, mysteries and chills.
Yet, the indelible stories he told, the masterpieces he created, must stand
astride the cannily crafted mythos of Hitchcock himself. In HITCHCOCK HOTEL,
acclaimed poet Lyn Lifshin journeys into this vast penumbra of platinum women,
psychosis, and frenzied brilliance to unmask the man hidden behind the torn
curtain at the rear window of our imaginations...
Ghost Dreaming
poetry from
Australia
Leanne Hanson
Poetry today can often be too clever or gimmicky;
GHOST DREAMING stands instead as an antidote for the trivial. Its roots are
deep, its poems not beneath our notice. They speak to our common humanity. They
do not die alone; instead, they blossom. GHOST DREAMING is earthy, original and
beats with an Australian heart that's as white as ghost gum dreaming. Leanne
Hanson's work is rooted deep in Australian bedrock. But she does not fear to
use her words as rafts to move to other places and times, taking you on a
beautiful journey to fresh new and original poetry with a distinctive voice.
Fragments of a Journal Salvaged from a Charred
House in Germany, 1816
... and other stories
David Massengill
What are the consequences of an American
tourist stealing a jawbone from a tomb in a Parisian cemetery? Or a husband and
wife employing a house sitter as bait for the entity that has been terrorizing
their home? Or a Bel Air housewife swallowing a worm-like import from
Africa
with the intention of losing weight? Enter the macabrely
karmic world of FRAGMENTS...
"The genius of a David Massengill short story lies not simply in its taut
narrative, its bizarre and disturbing elements, its cracking pace, or its dark
humor - rather, it lies in an insistence that the protagonist is complicit in
his own demise, even if only through a fleeting thought or a careless action.
FRAGMENTS will keep you reading story after fascinating, riveting,
blood-curdling story." ~
Garth Stein
(
The Art of
Racing in the Rain, Raven Stole the Moon
)
PURCHASE FRAGMENTS
OF A
JOURNAL...
Carmine Carnival
poetry from
France
Walter Ruhlmann
Succumb to the irresistible mythologies built
around the beauty of evil. Surrender to the temptations of the flesh, its
vampiric shades, its mouth-watering energy. And submit to the epistolary colour
Red: blood, wine, sex, desire, fire ... in Walter Ruhlmann’s haunting yet
sanguine collection of poetry, CARMINE CARNIVAL.
"Walter is both a young and
experienced poet as regards to his commitment to contemporary poetry as he has
been editing the journal
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Âtiawa, 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.
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.
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.
