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  A Dedication to Drowning

  Maeve McKenna

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  In this raw and moving debut chapbook, Maeve McKenna dives into the multitudes of womanhood: a mother, unmothered; a lover, alone; a child, now aged. She flings the cover off pain that would otherwise remain hidden and unspoken, exposing the most intimate parts of herself. In doing so, she invites the reader to embrace their own vulnerabilities, calling, "Let's assemble our bodies, limb to limb against/the walls of unoccupied margins, hope pointed/like the scope of a firing squad...I am writing it for you. For me."
  Prepare to be undone. Maeve McKenna's debut pamphlet 'A Dedication to Drowning' will leave you gasping for breath, head and heart battered and bruised by its ferocious, unflinching energy. Here is a poet that does not shy away from the hard edges of life where "each day is birth and a burial" - Gerard Beirne, Author of 'Games of Chance: A Gambler's Manual' (poetry)

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  Poetry Book Society Spring 2025...

  Alice Kate Mullen

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  The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot to share the joy of poetry. It's a unique poetry book club and every quarter our expert selectors choose the very best new books to deliver to our members across the globe. Our lively quarterly magazine is packed full of sneak preview poems from all the selected poets, alongside exclusive interviews, insightful reviews by the Ledbury Critics and extensive listings of every book and pamphlet published this quarter.
  Our Spring 2025 Selections are:
  CHOICE: Richard Scott, That Broke into Shining Crystals (Faber)
  RECOMMENDATIONS: Charles Lang, The Oasis (Skein Press)
  
  , Diane Seuss, Modern Poetry (Fitzcarraldo Editions), Dane Holt, Father's Father's Father (Carcanet Press), Desree, Altar (Bad Betty Press)
  SPECIAL COMMENDATION: Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Strange Beach (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
  TRANSLATION CHOICE: Anna Akhmatova, trans. Stephen Capus, In Love and Revolution (Shearsman Books)
  PAMPHLET CHOICE: Troy Cabida, Symmetric of Bone (fourteen poems)
  You can find out more and join our poetry community today at www.poetrybooks.co.uk.

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  Pastors Eat Pwussy Too

  Quan Millz

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  Nashawna "NuNu" Spearman, a local Chicago native, lives her life by one simple motto: Use what you got to get what you want. She's a certified bad bish that knows how to use her honey to make money. But when her one of her many honey moneymaking plans falls through, she suddenly finds herself having to life normally...for once. The prospect of prison forces her to take a plea deal that requires community service. That's how she ends up in the company of a popular south side of Chicago pastor who is also running for mayor of the city. One thing leads to another, and NuNu finds herself scheming and scamming once again. But will her plan backfire? Find out more in Pastors Eat Pwussy Too!

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  Ashes in the Milk - A Poetic Memoir

  Valerie Johns

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  "Ashes in the Milk" will remind readers that their greatest path to healing lies within—all they must do is walk down a path of self-discovery with curiosity, open mindedness and willingness. 
  Valerie Johns, MA, MFT, is a prolific poet, author, and therapist who is passionate about helping others heal from their deepest wounds.  She began writing Ashes in the Milk during the pandemic, identifying a need where readers were looking for guidance on their journey of trauma healing and to get inspiration for their own work by exploring their stories and dreams on an intimate, creative level.

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  The Crocodile

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  Ivan Matveich, the most ordinary person you might hope to meet, is swallowed alive by a crocodile at a sideshow. Finding life inside the belly of the beast quite comfortable, he makes a home for himself there. His disquisitions on the state of the world from inside the crocodile make him quite a name for himself; while all the while the discussion rages outside as to whether the beast is going to be cut open to release him or not, its value as a sideshow attraction having massively increased owing to the presence of the human voice buried inside it. One of Jorge Luis Borges' seven most favourite stories

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  The Onward Song - Poems

  K. J. Paradis

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  The Onward Song is poet K.J. Paradis's stunning debut collection—six dozen exquisitely crafted poems that are at once classical and wonderfully contemporary, poems made remarkable by their effortless musicality and unexpected metaphors. Paradis crafts verse that celebrates old boots, sharp pencils, first kisses, freckled constellations, the complex pleasures of a daughter's dance recital, and much more. A lawyer, entrepreneur, jazz musician, and a devoted student of the classics, Paradis's work also limns the lives and passions of luminaries like Einstein and van Gogh, Gertude Stein and Frank Lloyd Wright, Edward Hopper and Dave Brubeck. Often brief yet always deeply evocative, these are poems that are tender and mysterious, laced with curiosity and feeling, and they can also be a bit irreverent. A major new talent emerges in these pages, and The Onward Song is a collection of gems that often delight, sometimes surprise, and always amaze, poems as expansive as they are precise and delicate.

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