Doug Ramspeck
Blur
The Word Works, 2023
$19.00
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“The reader comes of age a hundred times in Doug Ramspeck’s poignant new book of poems. Mythic and elegiac, Ramspeck intertwines images from the natural world with familial and fraternal memories, with a haunting lyricism that hallows both past and present. ‘What we can’t see is everywhere,’ he reminds us: always precise, always moving, these poems are ‘epistles of moonlight’ from one of America’s most gifted and prolific poets.”
– Mark Wagenaar
Poems read:
“Divining the Mountain”
“dream of the ten rivers”
“Winter Trance”
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Gemma White
Oh My Rapture
Interactive Press, 2022
AU$26
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“In Oh My Rapture, Gemma White stages the politics of fandom in percussive, edgy and unforgettable poems. White performs intense moments of intimacy and yearning against a backdrop of grief, so that lines such as ‘you dumped me in the psych ward’, ‘you kissed me in Dixons Recycled Music’, and ‘my madness is a burnt orange fox’ become deep entanglements of desire.”
– Cassandra Atherton
Poems read:
“Poem 9”
“Poem 26”
“Poem 25”
“Poem 2”
Megan Wildhood
Bowed As If Laden With Snow
Cornerstone Press, 2023
$23
Playlist:
Poems read:
“Mystery Confirmed” (from the space in the Venn Diagram of my terror of the passing of time and my interests overlap)
“But I Am Still Connected To You” (a tribute to my late grandfather)
Birthday” (another reflection on the passing of time)
“We Are Not World Enders” (processing being told both that the world could end at any moment since we were children and that it was our oyster)
“How To Talk About The Weather” (an homage to my favorite section of the SAT before they changed it)