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Featured Anthologies and Collections
Blunt Force
A poetry collection by
Gary Beck
For Immediate Release
Forceful and pacey Blunt Force attacks large, complex issues, growing in anger and momentum as it progresses.
In his new work, Gary Beck takes aim at capitalist greed, corporate ruthlessness, and the decay of the American dream. His anger at the morality and hypocrisy of war, simmers under the surface of his poetry, the broken system it perpetuates and the abandonment of the American people by their leaders.
Clear and punchy, it is now without a more thoughtful look at the struggles of Nature against man, a war of another kind. Blunt Force is one man’s protest and makes for a compelling read.
Blunt Force is a 108 page poetry collection in paperback with a retail price of $10.99. ISBN 1912056364 and also in a Kindle version for $5.99. Published through Wordcatcher Publishing. Available now through all major retailers. For information or to request a review copy, contact:
david@wordcatcher.com
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FJVFHCX/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=
Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director, and as an art dealer when he couldn’t make a living in theater. He has 14 published chapbooks. His poetry collections include: Days of Destruction (Skive Press), Expectations (Rogue Scholars Press). Dawn in Cities, Assault on Nature, Songs of a Clerk, Civilized Ways, Displays, Perceptions, Fault Lines, Tremors, Perturbations and Rude Awakenings (Winter Goose Publishing) The Remission of Order, Contusions and Desperate Seeker will be published by Winter Goose Publishing. Conditioned Response (Nazar Look). Resonance (Dreaming Big Publications). Virtual Living (Thurston Howl Publications). Blossoms of Decay,Expectations and Blunt Force (Wordcatcher Publishing). His novels include: Extreme Change (Cogwheel Press), Flawed Connections (Black Rose Writing), Call to Valor and Crumbling Ramparts (Gnome on Pigs Productions). As part of the continuing series, ‘Stand to Arms Marines’, Gnome on Pigs Productions will publish the third book in the series, Raise High the Walls. Sudden Conflicts(Lillicat Publishers). Acts of Defiance and Flare Up will be published by Wordcatcher Publishing. Extreme Change will be published by Winter Goose Publishing. His short story collections include, A Glimpse of Youth(Sweatshoppe Publications). Now I Accuse and other stories (Winter Goose Publishing). Dogs Don’t Send Flowers and other stories will be published by Wordcatcher Publishing. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway. His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines. He currently lives in New York City.
Wordcatcher Publications. Indie publisher - born in Wales, serving the world. Authors are at the heart of everything - without their words we'd have nothing to publish.
https://wordcatcher.com
A poetry collection by
Gary Beck
For Immediate Release
Forceful and pacey Blunt Force attacks large, complex issues, growing in anger and momentum as it progresses.
In his new work, Gary Beck takes aim at capitalist greed, corporate ruthlessness, and the decay of the American dream. His anger at the morality and hypocrisy of war, simmers under the surface of his poetry, the broken system it perpetuates and the abandonment of the American people by their leaders.
Clear and punchy, it is now without a more thoughtful look at the struggles of Nature against man, a war of another kind. Blunt Force is one man’s protest and makes for a compelling read.
Blunt Force is a 108 page poetry collection in paperback with a retail price of $10.99. ISBN 1912056364 and also in a Kindle version for $5.99. Published through Wordcatcher Publishing. Available now through all major retailers. For information or to request a review copy, contact:
david@wordcatcher.com
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FJVFHCX/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=
Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director, and as an art dealer when he couldn’t make a living in theater. He has 14 published chapbooks. His poetry collections include: Days of Destruction (Skive Press), Expectations (Rogue Scholars Press). Dawn in Cities, Assault on Nature, Songs of a Clerk, Civilized Ways, Displays, Perceptions, Fault Lines, Tremors, Perturbations and Rude Awakenings (Winter Goose Publishing) The Remission of Order, Contusions and Desperate Seeker will be published by Winter Goose Publishing. Conditioned Response (Nazar Look). Resonance (Dreaming Big Publications). Virtual Living (Thurston Howl Publications). Blossoms of Decay,Expectations and Blunt Force (Wordcatcher Publishing). His novels include: Extreme Change (Cogwheel Press), Flawed Connections (Black Rose Writing), Call to Valor and Crumbling Ramparts (Gnome on Pigs Productions). As part of the continuing series, ‘Stand to Arms Marines’, Gnome on Pigs Productions will publish the third book in the series, Raise High the Walls. Sudden Conflicts(Lillicat Publishers). Acts of Defiance and Flare Up will be published by Wordcatcher Publishing. Extreme Change will be published by Winter Goose Publishing. His short story collections include, A Glimpse of Youth(Sweatshoppe Publications). Now I Accuse and other stories (Winter Goose Publishing). Dogs Don’t Send Flowers and other stories will be published by Wordcatcher Publishing. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway. His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines. He currently lives in New York City.
Wordcatcher Publications. Indie publisher - born in Wales, serving the world. Authors are at the heart of everything - without their words we'd have nothing to publish.
https://wordcatcher.com
Howard F. Stein would like to share with you the good news that I have a new book of poetry just published. It is called Centre and Circumference, and is published in New York by MindMend Publishing. It contains about 100 poems together with wonderful artwork by Sandra Indig.
If you are interested in ordering the book, it is available at this Amazon.com link:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1942431090
If you are interested in ordering the book, it is available at this Amazon.com link:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1942431090
For the past year, Frank Sikora has been working with a group of Canadian and American authors on an anthology of short stories. Many of these stories have won awards and have been published either online or in print. This anthology is a diverse collection of fiction from literary to romantic to speculative and fantasy.
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Available now, the most comprehensive book about the life, the art and the writing of
Tom Taylor aka The Poet Spiel aka Thoss W Taylor
“REVEALING SELF in Pictures and Words with Tom Taylor aka The Poet Spiel aka Thoss W Taylor”
“In his Revealing Self in Pictures and Words, Tom Taylor (aka the marvelous Poet Spiel) has given us his magnum opus, a revelatory memoir unlike any other, brimming with breathtaking textual and explosive visual images. A son of the Great Plains, a farm boy already a budding artist, a maverick, and gay, we feel the excruciating strictures of the closeted 1940s. Taylor allows us entry to his beautifully rendered inner agonies and mirror-dancing pleasures. We are privy to his deepest secrets and grateful recipients of his lifetime accumulation of wisdom and advice. In gorgeous reproductions he shows us those first sketches of his cloistered farm world, and then like rings in a tree, we witness Taylor’s growth as an artist. His vision is sometimes whimsical, sometimes realistic, and often wildly surrealistic as if Baudelaire and Rimbaud had painted as well as written. This book is for the coffee table and the ages.”
Stephanie Dickinson. Author, Editor, Publisher Rain Mountain Press.
Click this link to view and/or order: https://www.amazon.com/REVEALING-SELF-Pictures-Words-Taylor/dp/1979893691/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1530858308&sr=1-1&keywords=the+poet+spiel
REVEALING SELF in Pictures and Words
Publisher: EYE POINT PRESS. 89 W. Linden Ave Pueblo West CO 81007
Author: Tom Taylor
Book: Paperback, Perfect Bound, 122 pages
Contact: spielspeak.tt@gmail.com Website:www.thepoetspiel.name
“Tom-Thoss-Taylor aka Spiel has produced work fulfilling all the definitions of art. Through time (he) has moved from the obvious–naturalistic rendering to the most difficult art form of the contemporary scene: concept–based expression that is intimately allied to an individual’s life experience.”
Dr. William Folkestad, Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, CSU-Pueblo.
“I say no one writes like Spiel…incantational, confrontational, emotional, liturgical, hallucinatory, multifarious, autobiographical, extraordinary, malicious and delicious.”
Alan Catlin. Poet, Editor Misfit Magazine.
Tom Taylor aka The Poet Spiel aka Thoss W Taylor
“REVEALING SELF in Pictures and Words with Tom Taylor aka The Poet Spiel aka Thoss W Taylor”
“In his Revealing Self in Pictures and Words, Tom Taylor (aka the marvelous Poet Spiel) has given us his magnum opus, a revelatory memoir unlike any other, brimming with breathtaking textual and explosive visual images. A son of the Great Plains, a farm boy already a budding artist, a maverick, and gay, we feel the excruciating strictures of the closeted 1940s. Taylor allows us entry to his beautifully rendered inner agonies and mirror-dancing pleasures. We are privy to his deepest secrets and grateful recipients of his lifetime accumulation of wisdom and advice. In gorgeous reproductions he shows us those first sketches of his cloistered farm world, and then like rings in a tree, we witness Taylor’s growth as an artist. His vision is sometimes whimsical, sometimes realistic, and often wildly surrealistic as if Baudelaire and Rimbaud had painted as well as written. This book is for the coffee table and the ages.”
Stephanie Dickinson. Author, Editor, Publisher Rain Mountain Press.
Click this link to view and/or order: https://www.amazon.com/REVEALING-SELF-Pictures-Words-Taylor/dp/1979893691/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1530858308&sr=1-1&keywords=the+poet+spiel
REVEALING SELF in Pictures and Words
Publisher: EYE POINT PRESS. 89 W. Linden Ave Pueblo West CO 81007
Author: Tom Taylor
Book: Paperback, Perfect Bound, 122 pages
Contact: spielspeak.tt@gmail.com Website:www.thepoetspiel.name
“Tom-Thoss-Taylor aka Spiel has produced work fulfilling all the definitions of art. Through time (he) has moved from the obvious–naturalistic rendering to the most difficult art form of the contemporary scene: concept–based expression that is intimately allied to an individual’s life experience.”
Dr. William Folkestad, Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, CSU-Pueblo.
“I say no one writes like Spiel…incantational, confrontational, emotional, liturgical, hallucinatory, multifarious, autobiographical, extraordinary, malicious and delicious.”
Alan Catlin. Poet, Editor Misfit Magazine.
Reviews
"Homeless Chronicles from Abraham to Burningman" by Gerard Sarnat, reviewed by David Fraser
Stroking David's Leg by Ellaraine Lockie, reviewed by David Fraser
Love in the Time of Electrons by Ellaraine Lockie, reviewed by David Fraser
Beyond This Dark House: A Review of Guy Gavriel Kay's poetry collection Beyond This Dark House reviewed by David Fraser
The Iridescent Equations of Spoken Word: A Review of Bob Bryan's DVD The Iridescent Equations of Spoken Word reviewed by David Fraser
Blue Ribbons at the County Fair: A Review of Ellaraine Lockie's poetry collection Blue Ribbons at the County Fair by David Fraser
Down to a Sunless Sea: A Review of Mathias B. Fresse's short fiction collection Down to a Sunless Sea by David Fraser
Sein Und Werden: Review of magazine, Sein Und Werden by David Fraser
Rise, Fall and Acceptance: A Review of Patrick Carrington's Rise, Fall and Acceptance by David Fraser
GV6 The Odyssey, Poets, Passion and Poety: A Review of Bob Bryson's DVD: GV6 The Odyssey, Poets, Passion and Poetry by David Fraser
Empty Frames: A Review of D.B. Cox's Empty Frames by David Fraser
Almost Full: A Review of Don Schaefer's Almost Full by David Fraser
Vagabond Pond: A Review of Anastasia Clark's Vagabond Pond by David Fraser
Villa Victoria: A Review of Bryan Smith's Villa Victoria by David Fraser
Animals are SMARTER than JACK: edited by Jenny Campbell, Animals are SMARTER than JACK reviewed by David Fraser
"To the People of Carnegie Kitchen": Richard Tylman's poem, "To the People of Carnegie Kitchen" reviewed by David Fraser
More of Me Disappears: John Amen's More of Me Disappears reviewed by David Fraser
Going Down Goose Lane to Broken Jaw: Wayne Ray's Going Down Goose Lane to Broken Jaw review and book introduction by David Fraser
Separate Destinations: Kendall Evans' & David C. Kopaska-Merkel's Separate Destinations
Man-Made Monsters: Mad Marv's Man-Made Monster reviewed by David Fraser
Running Like A Woman With Her Hair on Fire: Martina Newberry's Running Like A Woman With Her Hair on Fire reviewed by David Fraser
"Homeless Chronicles from Abraham to Burningman" by Gerard Sarnat, reviewed by David Fraser
Stroking David's Leg by Ellaraine Lockie, reviewed by David Fraser
Love in the Time of Electrons by Ellaraine Lockie, reviewed by David Fraser
Beyond This Dark House: A Review of Guy Gavriel Kay's poetry collection Beyond This Dark House reviewed by David Fraser
The Iridescent Equations of Spoken Word: A Review of Bob Bryan's DVD The Iridescent Equations of Spoken Word reviewed by David Fraser
Blue Ribbons at the County Fair: A Review of Ellaraine Lockie's poetry collection Blue Ribbons at the County Fair by David Fraser
Down to a Sunless Sea: A Review of Mathias B. Fresse's short fiction collection Down to a Sunless Sea by David Fraser
Sein Und Werden: Review of magazine, Sein Und Werden by David Fraser
Rise, Fall and Acceptance: A Review of Patrick Carrington's Rise, Fall and Acceptance by David Fraser
GV6 The Odyssey, Poets, Passion and Poety: A Review of Bob Bryson's DVD: GV6 The Odyssey, Poets, Passion and Poetry by David Fraser
Empty Frames: A Review of D.B. Cox's Empty Frames by David Fraser
Almost Full: A Review of Don Schaefer's Almost Full by David Fraser
Vagabond Pond: A Review of Anastasia Clark's Vagabond Pond by David Fraser
Villa Victoria: A Review of Bryan Smith's Villa Victoria by David Fraser
Animals are SMARTER than JACK: edited by Jenny Campbell, Animals are SMARTER than JACK reviewed by David Fraser
"To the People of Carnegie Kitchen": Richard Tylman's poem, "To the People of Carnegie Kitchen" reviewed by David Fraser
More of Me Disappears: John Amen's More of Me Disappears reviewed by David Fraser
Going Down Goose Lane to Broken Jaw: Wayne Ray's Going Down Goose Lane to Broken Jaw review and book introduction by David Fraser
Separate Destinations: Kendall Evans' & David C. Kopaska-Merkel's Separate Destinations
Man-Made Monsters: Mad Marv's Man-Made Monster reviewed by David Fraser
Running Like A Woman With Her Hair on Fire: Martina Newberry's Running Like A Woman With Her Hair on Fire reviewed by David Fraser