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A Slice of Cherry Pie, ed. Ivy Alvarez
A chapbook anthology inspired by David Lynch's cult TV show,
Twin Peaks
★ Selected for Oxford University's British Poetry & Ekphrasis summer course! ★
With poems by Emilie Zoey
Baker, Jilly
Dybka, Collin
Kelley, elena
knox, Jared
Leising, Daniel
Lloyd, Siobhan
Logan, Eileen
Tabios, Maureen
Thorson, Andrew J
Wilson and Maike
Zock. [
Bios]
Audio poems:
Andrew J Wilson ¦
Maureen Thorson ¦
Jared Leising ¦
Daniel Lloyd ¦
Collin Kelley
Published by The Private Press, September 2006
13cm x 21cm. Mocha 150gsm acid-free cover. Ivory 80gsm 100% recycled paper interior
Hand-trimmed & saddlestitched, 20 pages + cover
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★ Praise for A Slice of Cherry Pie ★
Seductive, with eccentric bread crumb trails that lead into the deep green of Twin Peaks, readers will be twisted, wondering, brow-wrinkled and pondering, yet again, what makes the peculiar characters and their stories so compelling.
Lisa Factora-Borchers, Galatea Resurrects
A Slice of Cherry Pie is '...an intriguing and accomplished collection, not merely a put-together collage or even a mosaic in words, but a compilation complete and riveting.'
Patricia Prime, New Hope International Review
'A kick-ass piece of work. I loved every poem, I devoured the whole thing at once, I want everyone to read this, whether or not they are Twin Peaks Fans.'
Jeannine Hall Gailey, Jeannine Blogs
'The poems range from very tiny to quite extensive, but all evoke the eerie quality of Lynch's series.'
Erik Donald France, Erik's Choice
Australian readers:
A Slice of Cherry Pie is now available from Brunswick Street Bookstore and Collected Works in Melbourne and the Hobart Bookshop in Hobart.
Thanks to elena knox for permission to feature her artwork on The Private Press site.
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We Don't Stop Here, ed. Ivy Alvarez
A chapbook anthology inspired by David Lynch's film
Mulholland Drive
With poems by Emilie Zoey
Baker, Juliet
Cook, Karen
Head, Esther
Johnson, Collin
Kelley and Daniel
Lloyd. [
Bios]
Audio poems:
Karen Head ¦
Collin Kelley ¦
Daniel Lloyd
Published by The Private Press, March 2008
14cm x 14cm. Metallic blue with silver shimmer 250gsm cover. Natural White Conservation Wove 100gsm 100% recycled paper interior
Hand-trimmed & saddlestitched, 20 pages + cover
★ Praise for We Don't Stop Here ★
We Don't Stop Here appealed to me the more of the two books, but it is difficult to decide how much this preference was dictated by my familiarity with the movie which gave rise to the anthology. The complexity and skill with which Mulholland Drive was crafted, and the way it operates on a number of levels, are echoed not only in Kelley's poem, but also in "Lip-Synching", by Juliet Cook, a poem which, despite the unevenness of its control of language, includes some memorable lines, such as:
with her finger too slinky to be a key
with her finger too numb to get herself off
with her head too small for her splintered limbs
and a use of occasional asymmetric rhyme which, together with the carefully spaced repetitions of key words, gives it a fascinating texture.
The poem which keeps me going back most keenly, however, is Emily Zoey Baker's "No Hay Banda, There is No Band". Baker has a keen ear for nuanced language, and a rare ability to extract large amounts of significance from the juxtaposition of apparently simple words and phrases. The third stanza is worth quoting in full:
Sunshine arrives; she's a blonde.
Rita is in the shower,
Hayworth is on the wall.
Betty is as sweet as a peach.
One, admittedly minor, thing that appeals to me about this piece (and others of Baker's that I've read) is that she can achieve her effects without abandoning immaculate punctuation. Don't you just love that semicolon at the end of the first line above? The ending of this poem is perhaps a bit pat, but that might be considered in keeping with the sensation of having tied together all the strands of as complex a narrative as that of Mullholland Drive.
Tim Thorne, Famous Reporter
Australian readers:
We Don't Stop Here is now available from Readings (Carlton branch) and Collected Works in Melbourne and the Hobart Bookshop in Hobart.
£5.00
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catalogue: life as tableware
a chapbook of poems
catalogue: life as tableware Crow teacups and rainwater haiku Girl Meets Boy Sport Sweet nucleus
"...like Meret Oppenheim's Fur-Lined Teacup... it lends a mystery to the daily, makes something new out of it..."
Lucy Dougan, author of
Memory Shell
"a jeweller's gift with words"
Natalie d'Arbellof, author of
Augustine's True Confession
Published by The Private Press, 2004; second printing
Pale grey 160gsm cover, pale cream 80gsm interior, seven poems and six haiku, hand-cut & hand-stapled, 12 pages & cover
Also available from the Hobart Bookshop, Brunswick Street Bookstore and Collected Works in Australia.