Salmon Poetry

Dead Reckoning

Jude Nutter

$14.95 • Paperback • 94 pages 6.14x9.25 • November 2021 POE005020 978-1-912561-89-6

"In Dead Reckoning, Jude Nutter has given us a book of revelation, poems that press wisdom through language, extracting language itself from the dark earth of the body. Beginning in elegy, and ranging across Europe, she unflinchingly opens doors of our deep mortality: natural history and the fossils that move us and human histories of cave paintings, of the Romans, and especially of World War II and the dead of Bergen-Belsen, where the child-poet once lived. By images at once corporeal and luminous, Nutter’s reckonings render narrative, reflection, and beauty as inseparable. This gorgeous collection becomes a guide for how to love the dead beyond memory, a book to be returned to again and again." —Christina Hutchins author of Tender the Maker and The Stranger Dissolves

Moonlight

A Full Moon Louise C. Callaghan

$17.95 • Paperback • 70 pages 5.31x8.46 • November 2021 POE024000 • 978-1-912561-93-3

"Here, then, is this marvelous poet of elegies and celebrations, of seasons and servants, of boarding school and trundling foreign journeys. Louise C. Callaghan has a keen eye for detail and, like Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, a poet’s gifted ear for those forbidden comments heard from behind wooden panels. Moonlight: A Full Moon is a book rich in the detail we’ve come to expect from this very fine poet, from the Luas epiphany of ‘Winter Solstice’ to the telling, heart-felt memories of ‘The Diplomat’s Daughter.’ Callaghan has created an incredibly rich and series of nuanced narratives here from the earliest fallen heroes of the Covid pandemic to our own lost literary heroes, Eavan Boland and Derek Mahon. This latest arrangement of her personal myths, along with the deepening grace and poise of her verse-craft, make Moonlight: A Full Moon a rich and important new collection." - Thomas McCarthy

Light Rolling Slowly Backward

New & Selected Poems Ethna McKiernan

$16.95 • Paperback • 166 pages • 6.14x9.25 November 2021 • POE005010 978-1-912561-95-7 Ethna McKiernan lives in Minneapolis, MN

Light Rolling Slowly Backward is Ethna McKiernan’s fifth and most ambitious collection of poetry. McKiernan, who has a gift for metaphor, gives us 120 poems in her latest volume, a third of which are new. Her work ranges from the hilarious (police arrest her girl scout troup of 13-year olds prancing in nighties at midnight on a Chicago street) to an elegy for George Floyd (where she tosses a “grenade of grief up to the sky”), to “The Radiation Room” where she compares the light beams sweeping her body for cancer to the reassuring twinkle of winter constellations overhead and “everyone she’s ever loved.”

Station Lights

Alice Pettway

$14.95 • Paperback 64 pages • 5.31x8.46 November 2021 POE005010 978-1-912561-94-0 Alice Pettway lives in Seattle, Washington

“What sets [Pettway's poems] apart more than any other virtue is the subtle but insistent sense of irony they convey—one of the rarest and most valuable aspects of any art, but especially of poetry.” —Miller Williams, Inaugural poet “At the last page, I realize Pettway has turned me into the eponymous moth, desperate for that beautiful and dangerous fire that burns in only the best poems but which seems to burn here in every poem.” —Michael Prihoda, author of Out of Sky and editor of After the Pause

Persecution

Sofiul Azam

$14.95 • Paperback • 112 pages • 5.31x8.46 November 2021 • POE009000 978-1-912561-99-5

In Persecution, Sofiul Azam’s remarkable fourth collection, the poet employs intellectual gravity and emotional immediacy to address persecution as a major theme. Blurring the lines between the private and the public, Azam explores the tyranny of the unfeeling majority and the dictating minority, blending a multiplicity of aspects that may appear separate but are in fact interlinked. Persecution illuminates a powerful, cohesive philosophy, revealing that how we respond to these dynamics in a world such as ours defines what we are and who we will turn out to be.