This year, the nonprofit publisher won its first National Book Award for Craig Santos Perez's poetry collection 'from unincorporated territory [åmot].' Its publisher, Rusty Morrison, forecasts solid sales for that title, and others, this holiday season. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-12-04 05:00:00 UTC ]
Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover for writer Ross White’s poetry collection, Charm Offensive, which will be published by Eyewear Publishing this July. White is the designer and author of Valley of Want, a finalist for Electric Lit’s Best Book Cover of 2022 contest. Charm... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2023-04-14 11:00:00 UTC ]
Greenlight Bookstore welcomes Will Alexander, finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, to introduce Divine Blue Light, his new collection of poems from the intersection between surrealism and afro-futurism, where Césaire meets Sun Ra. Will Alexander’s poems constitute an alternative... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-01-12 09:52:43 UTC ]
Greenlight is thrilled to welcome award-winning author and long-time friend of the store Saeed Jones back to our Fort Greene events stage to celebrate the release of his new poetry collection, Alive at the End of the World. In haunted poems glinting with laughter, pierced by grief and charged... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-09-29 08:56:48 UTC ]
After 50 years, the prize has been scrapped. How did it change Britain’s literary landscape? And what happened at the awards when Margaret Drabble was seated next to Theresa May?Margaret Drabble was a bright young star with five novels to her name in 1971, when she was talked into joining her... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-06-23 05:00:38 UTC ]
Michael Rosen’s "timely" poetry collection about migration, illustrated by Quentin Blake, is the winner of this year’s CLPE Children’s Poetry Award (CLiPPA). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-11 14:31:18 UTC ]
Today, the National Book Foundation announced their longlist for the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry. This year’s longlist is made up almost entirely of first-timers—with the exception of Forrest Gander, who was longlisted in 2018 for his poetry collection Be With. This year’s judges for the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-09-16 14:15:01 UTC ]
The poet, whose acceptance speech will also be released on Monday, will publish Winter Recipes from the Collective in 2021Nobel laureate Louise Glück is set to publish her first poetry collection in seven years in 2021 – her first since becoming the 16th female winner of the literature... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-12-07 11:00:36 UTC ]
Portfolio buys a business book from a fashion brand founder, Paul Tran pens a poetry collection for Penguin, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-11-06 05:00:00 UTC ]
This has been an exciting month for Kaveh Akbar. Earlier this month, the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf was named poetry editor of The Nation, a glittering position once held by writers like Langston Hughes, Anne Sexton, and William B. Yeats. There’s much to look forward to from Akbar,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-09-29 14:00:33 UTC ]
Trapeze has acquired a new poetry collection from Nikita Gill, titled Where Hope Comes From, written in response to the global crisis. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-17 15:46:00 UTC ]
Margaret Atwood is to narrate the audiobook her new poetry collection, Dearly, which publishes simultaneously with the print edition on 10th November. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-04 22:25:53 UTC ]
Lana Del Rey is releasing her forthcoming poetry collection, Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass, on Tuesday, July 28 in digital form. In case you prefer your celebrity poetry spoken aloud, though, she has also recorded an audio version of the book, which will be released on vinyl, CD,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-07-24 16:04:22 UTC ]
Will browsing be allowed, or will we have to judge a book by its cover? With Waterstones and some indie shops set to open on 15 June, Alison Flood finds out what the plan isMelissa Davies had planned to fulfil a lifelong dream and open her independent bookshop, Pigeon Books, in Southsea, at the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-06-12 06:00:14 UTC ]
Among the big books that sold this week are a true crime tale by a rural doctor, a new novel by three-time Edgar winner T. Jefferson Parker, and a poetry collection by a Stranger Things cast member. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
Roger Robinson has won the £25,000 T S Eliot Prize for his "searing" poetry collection A Portable Paradise (Peepal Tree Press). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-13 13:53:02 UTC ]
Tiffany Midge is the author of several books including the recent memoir Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s, a collection of prose that blends humor with social commentary and meditations on love and loss. Her poetry collection The Woman Who Married a Bear won Kenyon Review’s Earthworks Prize... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-12-19 12:00:00 UTC ]
I have no idea how one goes about adapting a poetry collection into a TV series, but it looks like I’ll find out soon—AMC Studios is creating an Afrofuturistic anthology series based on Eve L. Ewing’s debut collection Electric Arches. According to Shadow and Act, “The Electric Arches anthology... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-10-31 17:27:27 UTC ]
Her new poetry collection, “Be Recorder,” is a bracing examination of America’s promise. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-09-04 16:16:23 UTC ]
Spoken word artist Steven Camden has won this year’s £1,000 CLiPPA (Centre for Literacy in Primary Poetry Award) with his poetry collection Everything All At Once (Macmillan Children’s Books). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-03 13:47:22 UTC ]