A direct descendent of Frank and Jesse James, Philip Daughtry is one of the only true Northumbrian Geordie poets writing in dialect today. Geordie and American poems from 1968 to 1994.

Celtic Blood: Selected Poems 1968-1994

Literature & Fiction

Daughtry, Philip

Poetry

New Native Press

Poetry. Edited by Thomas Rain Crowe with Gwendal Denez and Tom Hubbard. Translated by many hands. In this long overdue collection of contemporary Celtic language poets, A CELTIC RESURGENCE offers a first comprehensive look in English at poets from Wales, Brittany, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall and Isle of Man writing in Welsh, Breton, Scottish Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, Cornish and Manx. Along with poets who are legendary and household names in their native countries, such as Sorley MacLean, Bobi Jones and Anjela Duval, are more than fifty of the new young voices of modern Celtic literature. In tone, these voices of The New Celtic Poetry are equally as sensitive as they are subversive. In this they mirror the struggle and resiliency of a century of language activist-writers who have defied the attempts at cultural genocide by the English and the French—and have continued to write and speak their languages. The result of that staying power is evidenced in a ground swell of literary activity during the last half of the twentieth century in all six Celtic countries represented in this book. Introduced to many for the first time, these, then, are "The New Celts." The progeny of hundreds of years of ancient cultural tradition, yet as modern as anything being written anywhere in the world today. "Just by the very existence of the Celts and the Celtic traditions that have survived, this is subversive!"—Bobi Jones "It is a very different type of romanticism that has been predicated of the Gael and his poetry. The special brand of romanticism attributed to the Gael and his poetry is a romanticism of the escapist, otherworldly type, a cloudy mysticism, the type suggested by the famous phrase 'Celtic Twilight.' I suppose that many with Celtic pretensions will be shocked at the declaration that Gaelic poetry has not less but more than common realism."—Sorley MacLean

Writing the Wind: A Celtic Resurgence

Thomas Rain CROWE

Gwendal DENEZ

Tom HUBBARD

Poetry. POEMS FROM SNOW HILL ROAD is a true bio-regional examination of place. In this case the place is the Smoky Mountains of the Blue Ridge in western North Carolina. While these poems reflect, perfectly, the place and its people, it could also be taken for almost anywhere in the U.S. where there is still a living regional culture and a rural landscape. Brent Martin has worked for most of his adult life for various Land Trusts and wilderness preservation organizations. He currently works for The Wilderness Society. These sensitive and well-crafted poems in a limited fine-editions printing reflect his committment and love of the natural world in all its many faces and extremities.

Poems from Snow Hill Road

Martin, Brent

Poetry. As a kind of stewardship and seasonal ritual, Dale Pendell takes us through the four seasons at his home in the Sierra foothills of northern California as he "salts the boundaries" of his property and his life, "keeping them clean," as he puts it. No stranger to ancient culture(s) or rituals, the author writes a modern poetry that is, at once, contemporary and Celtic in its detail and focus on cultural and environmental sustainability (or the lack thereof). Drawing a circle around the seasons, Pendell finishes this poem-cycle with poems of winter. In his preface to the winter section he writes, "In California and other 'Mediterranean' climates, winter is when it rains. Fires are in the stove. It's a good time for writing, and books." "I'm glad I cleared the desktop and spread out and read all of SALTING THE BOUNDARIES this evening. These are all new poems to me, and new in tone, style, vocabulary. The breadth of knowledge and concern, mythopoetic, geologic, historic, et al is splendid. & your wild salmon poem: I'm so glad you did that. I had been idly dreaming of something like that for years but never got to it. This is an impressive gathering, and a welcome surprise for me."—Gary Snyder

Salting the Boundaries

Pendell, Dale

A country music songwriter and friend of many well-known country music artists gives us his Selected songs and poems from a lifetime of writing. These are classics from true master of the artform

Love Songs For A Country Lane

King, Grant

Poetry. THE BABY BEATS is a bilingual anthology of American poets translated into French poet Mathias de Breyne, and featuring a preface by Thomas Rain Crowe. This anthology looks back into the past and speaks for the present as well as predicts the future in relation to the 1970s 2nd San Francisco Renaissance--featuring the next generation of poets in the Beat tradition (the "Baby Beats") alongside their Beat counterparts as they appeared in the pages of Beatitude and other Northern California indie magazines. The exciting, if unheralded, Bay Area literary scene of the 1970s is fully documented in pictures and poems with an attached CD which includes readings by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane di Prima, Bob Kaufman, Jack Hirschman, Jack Micheline, Cole Swensen, Ken Wainio, Thomas Rain Crowe and others.

Baby Beat Generation

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