Claire Crowther
Real Lear, New & Selected Poems
Shearsman, 2024
£12.95 / $20
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Real Lear, New & Selected Poems, marks a major point in my publishing life. Many thanks to Tony Frazer of Shearsman Books, an extraordinary contemporary poetry publishing house; he has supported my development as a poet for so many years, resulting in this collection of new poems plus the best of the rest.
Poems read:
“Marriage, A Sunbeat”
“The Visitor”
“We Shine Love So Hard” “Hazards and Thrown Humans”
Jon Davis
Fearless Now & Nameless
Grid Books, 2025
$18.00
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Poems read:
“Flamenco Recital"
“The Owl on Rattlesnake Drive"
“Against Deliverance"
Melissa Eleftherion
Gutter Rainbows
Querencia Press, 2024
$13
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Gutter Rainbows is about transformation through trauma. It’s about growing up in Brooklyn & forming alliances with sidewalks. About being a girl on the verge of something shattering. About the fur. Many of the poems in this collection are based on a type of mineral. Melissa Eleftherion works with the language of minerals and rocks to tell a story of the relationship between women & geological trauma, along with the sediment of betrayal that lingers in our foundation.
This book is about trusting yourself enough to claw your way out.