Julie Kane's Naked Ladies
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No! Not that sort of thing at all! They are a common Louisiana flower. Julie Kane, a quondam LUPO contributor with eight pieces (issues 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13 and 20)) in its first four years (will ye no come back again?) has gathered, in one Louisiana State University Press volume of 162 pages, selections from her five previous collections. There are also nearly thirty new and uncollected items of her work. Described as ‘a boomers’ Edna St Vincent Millay’ or ‘our 21st century Dorothy Parker’ this book will clearly pack a punch both now and in future Christmas stockings. Available via Amazon or LSU Press.
Jane Blanchard's Latest Collection
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Undaunted by Hurricane Helene’s deposition of several pine-trees on her roof last autumn, longstanding contributor Jane Blanchard completed her eighth Kelsay Books collection Furthermore, which was published on February 26th. Its ninety pages include eight poems that first appeared here in LUPO. The collection’s topics range from Tiger Woods to the Book of Kells, or, in this versatile poet’s deft light vein, Wimbledon’s dress codes to Scottish snow vocabulary.
As another LUPO contributor, Paul Willis, notes on the back cover, “The aptly titled Furthermore reminds there is always something else to laugh at, something else to cry over.”
Available via Kelsay Books and Amazon.
Find Homes For Old Sailors At Christmas - But Do It Now!
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Amazon has simplified your Christmas shopping problems by offering my book, The Wrong Ancient Mariner – and Other Variant Verses, at £2.91p against the full price of £7-99p (no delivery charge for Prime customers.)
Fear not! This poet will not starve in his garret during the Festive Season, since he will receive his full Royalty payment on all copies sold. But he does recommend you act fast, since Amazon give no indication of how long this offer will be available for – and their price has recently been going up and down without warning.
Parody, pastiche, humour and satire make ‘an irreverent foray into many traditional bastions of English verse’; to form an ideal stocking-filler for those who are always hard to find small presents for.
Further details and examples from the book can be seen at:-
Chime now in paperback
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Damian Balassone’s Chime now in paperback
Damian Balassone’s Chime , a selection of his best lyrics, ballads and narrative poems, on Kindle since November 2022, and currently No. 1 on the “Poetry of Places” Best Sellers list, is now available as a paperback via Amazon.
New Tom Vaughan Collection
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New Tom Vaughan Collection
Longstanding LUPO contributor Tom Vaughan has had a third small collection of his poems published. Several of them in Just A Minute (Cyberwit) are ‘minute ’poems in stanzas of 60 syllables in a particular rhyme and line length pattern, an American form originally intended for comic verse.
It’s available on Amazon (£5.49 or $ 7.00) or from the publisher. Here are the links:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/8119654773 . https://www.cyberwit.net/publications/2295.