Another Balmainic Book
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Melissa Balmain has another collection out in September, Satan Talks To His Therapist, to follow Walking In On People and The Witch Demands A Retraction. It is available for pre-order from https://www.pauldrybooks.com/products/satan-talks-to-his-therapist
Damian Balassone's Chime
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For anyone chasing a light read, Chime, a selection of D. B.'s best lyrics, ballads and narrative poems has just landed on Kindle - all for the price of a large coffee. (Note Kindle app is free). Free sample in link below.
D.A. Prince's Bigger Picture
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Helena Nelson’s HappenStance Press has recently issued a third full-length collection, The Bigger Picture, by D.A. Prince, a regular LUPO contributor.
“These are poems about looking at small things carefully, weighing them in the mind like pieces of an enormous jigsaw. Everything – even the things that have never made sense –must somehow fit in.. But where? How? This is the third collection of a poet experienced in the ways of words. She knows what she’s doing. With absolute precision and quiet, keen-eyed intelligence, D. A. Prince offers her take on life. It is like no-one else’s.”
£10.00 plus £1.65 post and packing. See website at https://www.happenstancepress.com
Two Collections From Jane Blanchard
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As well as longstanding Lighten Up Online contributor Jane Blanchard’s fifth Kelsay collection Never Enough Already (14 August 2021) there is now her sixth, the recently published Sooner Or Later (21 June 2022). Both collections of sixty or so pieces feature several that first appeared in LUPO as well as many other venues, from The Anglican Theological Review to The Dark Horse.
Her work is neatly-crafted and varied in form, focusing on the daily round, relationships, family, gardens, food, social conventions, and a certain number of more sombre topics, but laced with much wry wit regarding raccoons, royals, crickets, rampageous crustaceans, bears and beards, not to mention George Washington and Windows 10.
Details at Amazon and Kelsay Books.