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Tag: Chapbooks – 2019

  • Cemetery Music by Birdy Odell

    Cemetery Music
    by Birdy Odell

    Publication Date: 10 December 2019
    Nightingale & Sparrow Press

    Genre: Mixed Media

     

     

    In Cemetery Music, the conflicting feelings we have around death and dying are explored in a collection of vignettes created by pairing found words, that are markedly melancholy, with artwork that is lighthearted, hopeful, and poignant.

    The poems themselves invoke an emotional response using very few words. There is sadness in death. It is a universal reaction.  Using words that have been discarded highlights our fear of loss. Memories are often all we have left.  Happy memories are still tinged with sorrow. And yet, somehow, we carry on.

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    birdy-odell

    Birdy Odell is a Canadian artist and writer whose work highlights themes of death, loss, and the difficulties of childhood. Her work has appeared in various literary magazines and has been described as “haunting, melancholy and nostalgic.” She prefers books to people and is currently at work on a new collection.

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  • Gravity by Lynne Schmidt

    Gravity
    by Lynne Schmidt

    Publication Date: 8 October 2019
    Nightingale & Sparrow Press

    Genre: Poetry

    Cover art by Reid Maxim

     

     

    Gravity is a collection of poems that explores the rise and fall of an intense relationship. The kind where the other person is the Gravity keeping you anchored to the planet and you worry that without them, you may float off into space.

    And then it is finding the strength to realize the relationship is not what you want, after all. It is several years, several breakups, several attempts to turn yourself inside out only to find maybe this isn’t the person you’ve been waiting for your entire life, and that you are the only person who can heal you.

    Print Copy: $9.99

    Kindle Copy: $3.99

    Digital PDF Copy: $2.99

    Praise for Gravity

    “Gravity is full of hearts, all of the hearts. Hearts of every kind: tender, open, injured– any form that you could imagine. Lynne Schmidt delivers a universe where planets are colliding.”  — Cavin Bryce Gonzalez, founder of Back Patio Press

    Gravity is not just sweet poems about plastic galaxies. It is a cohesive collection recalling grief, anger, resentment, and love. Beware, there are lines in this book that will detonate you like a supernova. — Lannie Stabile, Managing Editor of Barren Magazine

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    About the Author

    lynne-schmidt

    Lynne Schmidt is a mental health professional in Maine who writes memoir, poetry, and young adult fiction. Her unpublished memoir, The Right to Live: A Memoir of Abortion received the 2018 Maine Nonfiction Award and was a 2018 PNWA finalist, while her poetry received the Editor’s Choice Award for her poem, Baxter, from Frost Meadow Review and was a 2019 PNWA finalist. She is a five-time Best of the Net 2019 nominee and the founder of AbortionChat, where she does presentations on the intersections of mental health, writing, and reproductive justice. When given the option, she prefers the company of her three dogs and one cat to humans.

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