New and Selected Poems by Charles W. Pratt
Volume I of the Granite State Poetry series: “. . . No one since Frost has so triumphantly drawn poetry out of New England earth, while roaming at will the unbounded world outside.” —X. J. Kennedy
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Poems by Becky Dennison Sakellariou
Volume II in the series. “Carefully crafted with astonishing phrases and beautiful language and rhythms, Earth Listening . . . seems to me like one long prayer. I love this book.” — Patricia Fargnoli
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A Poem and Radio Play by Julia Older
Volume III in the series. “Julia Older found one Greek vase that talked and is still talking, in defiance of weather, war, and malevolence.” —Andrei Codrescu.
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New & Selected Poems by W. E. Butts
Volume IV in the series. “No one can claim, as might the fabulous R & B musicians he catalogs in ‘Radio Time,’ to be a more masterful ‘historian of desire.’ ” — Sydney Lea
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Selected Poems & Translations by J. Kates
Volume V in the series. “Kates brings the same poised, witty, erotic, compassionate skills masterfully into play in the poems that are his own and in his distinguished translations.”
— David Ferry
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Poems by Patricia Fargnoli
Volume VI in the series. ". . . Such great attention teaches us “the natural world comes to join you / if you go out to meet it,” and so we come to understand that “truth is found in silence.”— Meg Kearney
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Haibun, Haiku, Senryu & Other Poems by James Fowler
Volume VII in the series. “. . . dominated by a stark sense engendered by experience in war, work abroad, his wife, and nature.”
—Bruce Ross
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Poems by Maudelle Driskell
Volume VIII in the series. “. . . Quirky, often grimly funny, Driskell’s clarity draws the reader to her insistence on the uncertain ‘other.’ ”
— Cleopatra Mathis
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Volume IX in the series.
“. . . Unafraid of ecstasy, this poet has stolen Hermes’ tortoise-lyre and on it he plays tunes at once ancient and violently new. Every line ignites.
—Rosanna Warren
A gift special. All of the first nine volumes of the Hobblebush Granite State Poetry Series in a gift bundle, at a special price. With John F. Kennedy quotation.
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Becky Sakellariou reads from Earth Listening, Volume II of the series.
Submissions
Hobblebush welcomes ideas and submissions for the series. Manuscripts should be approximately 60 to 80 pages of poetry. Authors should either live in New Hampshire or have a very strong New Hampshire connection. The reading period is year-round and response time is typically within three months. Please query first by contacting us.
Series editor, Sid Hall, notes: “We are not looking for authors who are simply skilled. We are interested in work that is transformative and important. We are looking for authors who have lifted words into a new realm of spirit that did not exist before. We believe those poets are here in New Hampshire.”
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“This is a valiant first round by Hobblebush Books. The packaging of both titles is quite fine, and great care has been exercised in the selection of both poets and the poems on display. If the rest of the Granite State Poetry Series is anything like Earth Listening and From the Box Marked Some Are Missing, poetry readers from all states are very lucky indeed.”
Edgar Mason,
The Fortnightly Review, UK
“...New Hampshire has its great poetic history, having sent off four of its own to become U.S. poets laureate, just for starters. Mr. Pratt has had his own distinctive career as poet, and now we have this volume to hold alongside the best there is.”
Robert Stewart: “New Hampshire Does it Again”
New Letters Vol. 76, #4
