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  Asbestos Heights

  David McGimpsey

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  Winner of the 2015 Quebec Writers' Federation's A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry
     
  If you tore off the tops of canola --yellow canola flowers -- would youjump in a tub of canola margarinejust to make the best of despair?
     
  Implored by concerned readers to be 'classy' and 'real' for once, David McGimpsey has composed a sequence of canonical note­books on all things 'poetic' and 'poetical.' Birds! Flowers! History! Sad leaders! The word 'aubade'! They're all here, in a serial, State Fair-bound collection of lyrics set in the working­-class belvedere of Asbestos Heights.
     
  Among the refreshing lemon-­lime sodas of the world and the rousing lyrics to 'Bootylicious,' Asbestos Heights amps up McGimpsey's trademark sideswiping of formal rhetoric and prosody with pop savoir faire to �*nd his boldest collection. Imagine Petrarch in a Tweet war about where to buy a good pair of dad jeans. Imagine Yeats but with a lot fewer swans. Imagine a poet who was told long ago that nothing good ever comes out of a place like Asbestos Heights.
     
  'David McGimpsey is unfuckwithable, poetry­wise, and I'll stand on John Ashbery's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.'-- Michael Robbins
     
  'McGimpsey’s book is a masterful display of formal unity ... The work addresses the devalued currency of the overeducated, but underemployed, poet of art-culture, juxtaposing this experience with the esteemed currency of the undereducated, but overemployed, star of pop-culture ... It is also a book of significant pathos and submerged emotion.'– QWF A.M. Klein Poetry Prize jury citation

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  When Robert Burns came to Tea...

  Bridget Nolan

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  In this second collection of poetry, Bridget Nolan explores the human experience in some unexpected ways. Her ability to stir emotions provokes thought, triggers laughter and occasions tears.From the comical title poem ‘When Robert Burns came to Tea’ to the heartbreaking ‘Why would I Imagine?’ Bridget presents a collection of stories in poetic form. In her varied style, she conveys a myriad thoughts and feelings: the joy of love; the pain of a continuing sense of loss; the embarrassment of a hospital visit and the comfort of the natural world are all woven into the narrative of this diverse collection. This anthology celebrates the human condition in all its shades of dark and light.

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  Astrology Poetry 101: Cypher

  Gregory Sulface

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  Imagine when the zodiac signs have all gathered together, maybe sharing some drinks and having a long chat—in poetry.  Will they talk about who is more fun? Will they point fingers at who is being dramatic? Or would they talk about the people who represent them and if these people were representing their signs very well? Will these signs be friends? Will Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius throw fire at other signs? Will Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces douse everyone else with water? Will the earth (Capricorn, Taurus, and Virgo) and air (Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius) signs meet? There would surely be intriguing topics and heightened emotions involved in this party. If you want to eavesdrop, get a copy of Astrology Poetry 101: Cypher.

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  Encounters With The World: Poems...

  Ann Tudor

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  In "Encounters With The World," Ann Tudor offers the listener her uniquely poignant poetry on the beauty of the moment -- a falling leave, a soft winter's snow, the glow of a summer moon. She holds a BA from DePauw University and a graduate degree from Vanderbilt University. She has worked as a teacher at the junior high level and at the university level. Other full and part-time work includes church organist, editor, choir member, craftsperson, pianist, student of the cello, hands-on healer, and--though this doesn't count as work--avid reader. She has written children's and adult books, recorded audiobooks, and had two books published, Hesitating At The Gate and Fast and Fearless Cooking: A Cookbook of Ideas and Techniques Rather Than Recipes. Mother of three and grandmother of five, Ann lives in Toronto.

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  Encore

  Tony L. Harris

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  INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS! This is a dramatic suspense filled love story that provides an in-depth behind-the-scenes glimpse into the fast-pace and mysterious world of transportation-logistics.  The year is 1981 and life as young Tony once knew it is about to change forever. Come aboard and check out this young hero's journey as he learns how to navigate the fast lanes of life, love, and logistics in Southern California.

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  The Glugs of Gosh

  C. J. Dennis

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  The Glugs of Gosh is a book of satirical verse written by Australian author C. J. Dennis, published by Angus & Robertson in 1917. The book's 13 poems are vignettes of life in a fictional kingdom called Gosh, inhabited by an arboreal race (that is to say, climbers) known as Glugs. Dennis describes the Glugs as a "stupid race of docile folk". Written in the style of children's nonsense poetry, the work attacks free trade, along with what Dennis saw as Australia's social conformity, intellectual cowardice and rampant bureaucracy. Read by John Derum

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