Categoría: Poetry Bookshelf
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Review of Dr. Ratan Bhattacharjee’s “Twilight of Love: (Silhouette – A Collection of 100 Wonderful Short and Long Stories)” by Dr. Supriya Shukla
https://orfeu.al/supriya-shukla-review-of-the-book-twilight-of-love-by-author-drratan-bhattacharjee Kindle Indigo (Kobo eBook) https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/twilight-of-love-silhouette-%E2%80%93-a-collection-of-100-wonderful-short-and-long-stories/00dbc5e3-44e2-3557-aca1-42738a53ef18.html Partridge Bookstore (available in paperback and eBook) https://www.partridgepublishing.com/en-sg/bookstore/bookdetails/833761-twilight-of-love
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Featuring «Take a Priest Like You» by Michael Barrington
Amazon Description After being stood up to be shot by a group of drunken Nigerian soldiers, a whiskey drinking, ‘John Wayne’ type priest takes care of him. A racist, alcoholic pastor nurses him through a near fatal bout of malaria. Devastated by the death of a young schoolgirl he then…
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Munmun “Sam” Samanta Reviews “Solemnity Rites” by Loralee Clark
Solemnity Rites by Loralee Clark is a visceral, myth-infused poetry collection that weaves the themes of womanhood, ritual, ancestry, and the struggle for finding significance in this insignificant world. Solemnity Rites reclaims poetry as a site of sacred remembering and communal witnessing. It is not just a book but a…
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Review of Dr. Ratan Bhattacharjee’s “Twilight of Love: (Silhouette – A Collection of 100 Wonderful Short and Long Stories)” by Vandana Kumari Jena
Kindle Indigo (Kobo eBook) https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/twilight-of-love-silhouette-%E2%80%93-a-collection-of-100-wonderful-short-and-long-stories/00dbc5e3-44e2-3557-aca1-42738a53ef18.html Partridge Bookstore (available in paperback and eBook) https://www.partridgepublishing.com/en-sg/bookstore/bookdetails/833761-twilight-of-love previously published in Transcendent Zero Press
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Featuring “A Soul a Day” by Todd Sullivan
From the Author I started A SOUL A DAY twelve years ago. I was living on Jeju Island in South Korea, and I wanted to write a vampire series with a twist. Unlike modern-day vampire narratives, I wanted my vampires to be truly damned, and what’s more hellish than being…
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Featuring «Perfect Disappearances» by Paul Hostovsky
Excerpts GroundedWhen I was littleand closer to the ground,I spent a lot of time on the floor. Sitting on the floor, lying down on the floor, crawling around on the floor and playing with the catwho was closer to the ground than I was. I was intimate with carpeting, its…
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Featuring “Hollow Men (The Windshine Chronicles)” by Todd Sullivan
Men from South Hanguk undertake quests to gain social standing, to stand above their peers, to make names for themselves. To become heroes. Few ever return. Ha Jun, sixteen years old, possesses a glyph sword crafted in foreign lands. Alongside a soldier, a knight, and a monk, he travels across…
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Featuring “Rhyming Dreams” by Nicole Sara
Rhyming Dreams is an enchanting and engaging collection of poems about the heart’s winding journey through deep wistful longing towards bliss and belonging along the meandering road of love and loss, hope and healing. This book is for anyone who dreams a lot, loves deeply, and has both good and bad…
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Featuring «Bricolage» by Richard Stimac
Excerpt BricolageMy mom reconstructed our lives from junk.Unbleached cardboard Orisha beaded masks,glass-shard mosaics of proud Mary’s face,a twisted crown of bottle caps and barbed wire,found relics, littered our tar-paper house,each objet d’art, a fetish, meant to stavethe shame of being poor. We ate, each night,on painted plates of resurrecting suns.She…
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Featuring «Appalling Behavior» by Stephen House
«Le Marias» is an excerpt from Stephen House’s monologue play, ‘Appalling Behaviour’, which has been widely performed and published by Australian Plays Transform. Excerpt Le Marais her voice caresses my moment and i snap too – shaken back from the fog to this moment in Le Marais, where i have stopped…
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Review of Annie Sokoloff’s “Oh! So Many Balls” by Nolcha Fox
I giggled all the way through Annie’s book, “Oh! So Many Balls,” because it was funny and so relatable. The book sheds light on all the relationships women have to juggle to avoid a cerebral hemorrhage. Annie masterfully points out the differences between men and women. But she’s quick to…
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Featuring “Another Another” by Richard LeDue
The purgatory between each Guinnesshelps an empty glass turn to hellwhile an unopened can becomes god.His compassion even more intoxicating Another Another is Richard LeDue’s ninth collection with Alien Buddha Press and a quietly resonant testament to his belief that, even when it isn’t much, poetry still matters. Born in…
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Featuring “Pouring Light on the Hills” by Christina Chin and Uchechukwu Onyedikam
Somewhere a thousand years ago or so, renga emerged in Japanese literature as a courtly form of linked verse. Poets in the eight islands transplanted cuttings from the palaces into more public domains and tanka and haiku evolved. There is something sensible about these structures that allowed them to thrive…
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Featuring «The Enormity of Existence» by Nolo Segundo
Amazon Book Description My poems are written rather simply, and clearly. In this I know I goagainst the grain of much modern poetry that like, its counterpart,abstract art, tends to the recondite and is often so idiosyncratic that thereader may left wondering, what does it mean? I know the zeitgeist…
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“Interview with John Yamrus” by Peter Mladinic
In a career spanning more than 50 years as a working writer, John Yamrus has published 39 books. He has also had more than 3,000 poems published in magazines and anthologies around the world. A number of his books and poems are taught in college and university courses. He is…
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