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Martin Corless-Smith
The author's 13 collection, one which proves that there is nothing that poetry can't say, and that a book of poems can breathe and walk around in the world and…
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The Fool & the Bee is a fabulous book of the poetic imagination. -Peter Gizzi A stunning, pleasurable book. - Alice Notley
In The Melancholy of Anatomy, his ninth collection of poetry, Martin Corless-Smith turns his attention towards ageing and mortality, and in particular to the death of his father.
The final volume in a trilogy of alternate selves and alternate literary histories
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The corporeal yet spiritually inclined poems of Bitter Green speak of art and lost love with an epigrammatic defenselessness.
Draws on the various metaphorical implications of the House in its exploration of the uncanny presence and absence of self and world in poetry. The poems acknowledge the desire for…
Poetry. ODIOUS HORIZONS ransacks and revives Horace for our contemporary world. Part translations, part re-visionings, these radical (yet often formal) lyrics offer the stoical, joyful praise for a simple life…
Part travelogue and part philosophical examination, this volume of poems is set in England in its Golden Age. The character of Sir Thomas Swan, a constant and conscientious observer, stands…
Tracks the evolution of consciousness as defined by and contained in poetry from the Ancient to the Contemporary. Using the work of Sappho, Virgil, Keats, Celan, and Alice Notley, the…
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A songbook of meditations on hospitality, fidelity, friendship, regret and the lyric.
