Palimpsest Press
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Title & Subtitle | Contents | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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EkkePoems |
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 FistEssays 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! HonorariumEssays 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! Humanimuspoems |
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 |