Palimpsest Press

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Title & Subtitle	Contents	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Ekke Poems	Multilingually inflected, Klara du Plessis’ first collection of poetry explores the multiplicity of self through language, occupying a liminal space between South Africa and Canada. A …	Klara du Plessis	88	2018	View
Heart on Fist Essays and Reviews, 1970-2016	An award-winning poet, M. Travis Lane has also been one of Canada’s most productive literary critics over the past fifty years, having contributed several hundred reviews to Canadian …	M. Travis Lane	296	2016	View
NEW! Hell Light Flesh	In her second collection of poetry, Hell Light Flesh, Klara du Plessis returns with a Dantesque trilogy on family, punishment, and the ferocity and brilliance of creation. Hell Light Flesh drops …	Klara du Plessis	120	2020	View
NEW! Honorarium Essays 2001–2021	In Honorarium, Nathaniel G. Moore compiles twenty years’ worth of reading other people’s books, while also faithfully attempting to convey a sense of what it’s like to work …	Nathaniel G. Moore	272	2021	View
NEW! Humanimus poems	David Huebert’s Humanimus presents a world of soiled nature, of compromised ecology, of toxic transcendence. Raising environmental precarity to the level of mythos, this book implicates …	David Huebert	104	2020	View
Kingdom	Kingdom is a collection of poems that asks questions and argues with the answers. Although confessional, they do not repent. Both comedic or sombre, these poems search for the meaning found in …	Elizabeth Ross	80	2015	View
Lady Crawford	Between imperial dinners and managing investments, Lady Crawford offers a rare glimpse of the inner-life of a woman who has married into a royal lineage. Chronicled in a series of metamorphic …	Julie Cameron Gray	72	2016	View
Maunder	Maundering is both a physical and verbal process. One can walk in a maundering, aimless fashion and one can verbosely maunder on. Claire Kelly’s debut collection, Maunder, contains poems …	Claire Kelly	96	2017	View
NEW! Mythical Man	In Mythical Man, David Ly builds, and then tears down, an army of men in a quest to explore personhood in the 21st century. Tenderness, toxic masculinity, nuances of queer love, and questions of …	David Ly	80	2020	View
Off-Leash	Everyone has a dog story, from the salesman at Home Depot to the passenger on a plane who confesses about the scar on his face. The poems in Mahoney’s third collection explore the concepts …	Dorothy Mahoney	80	2016	View
Players	Staged in an urban dreamscape, Players fuses popular culture with narratives about hand-to-hand combat, how to hustle, and high art. Taking lyrical cues from hip-hop, Nyman’s poetry bends …	John Nyman	96	2016	View
NEW! Poetry Is Queer	Poetry is Queer is a kaleidoscope of sexual outlaws, gay icons, Sapphic poets, and great lovers—real and imagined—conjured like gateway drugs to a queer world. Claiming the word …	Kirby	231	2021	View
Realignment	“For the fortunate reader of Ruth Roach Pierson’s book, her “realignments” are all enlargements – of working vocabulary, as words such as “brindled,” …	Ruth Roach Pierson	88	2015	View
Safe Words	From a student’s confrontation with a teenage streaker, to a company man’s complete undoing at his summer party, Michelle Brown’s Safe Words finds rich darkness in happy …	Michelle Brown	72	2018	View
Search Box Bed	There is no history of poetry without love poetry, and there is no history of media without pornography. Darryl Whetter turns his attention from evolution in the natural world to the co-evolution …	Darryl Whetter	72	2017	View
NEW! Smog Mother	The strongest collection yet from a poet writing at the height of his powers. In Smog Mother, John Wall Barger asks: What is a poet without a home? Over and over he finds answers in the joy of …	John Wall Barger	104	2022	View