Books published by Eyewear Publishing

Poetry. Women's Studies. Marion McCready's highly anticipated second collection, MADAME ECOSSE is a very Scottish collection of lyrical poems. Political and personal by turns, these poems explore the natural world, history and myth, and the female experience across the centuries.

Poetry. Women's Studies. At turns heartwrenching and redeeming, THE WATERMARK explores an American Southern life gone horribly awry. Rich with star-soaked skies and bayou-sodden locales, the poems propel the reader through hurricanes and heartache. Anderson explores the sharp destruction of childhood abuse and the unruly abandon of love and sex, finding grace within calamity. THE WATERMARK draws a map of the human heart, with Anderson its fierce cartographer.

Poetry. PROFESSOR HARRIMAN'S STEAM AIR-SHIP charts a contemporary landscape of violence and death while reaching for joy and aiming for flight. This courageous, powerful collection stands among Svoboda's finest work.

A collection of sonnets written when schoolteacher Tony Chan gave up his job and embarked on a 78-day, 1400-mile solo trek across the four points of mainland Britain. He wrote a sonnet on every day of the journey from Dunnet Head to Ardnamurchan Point and from Lowestoft Ness to Lizard Point.

"We fought America in ourselves," Don Share writes, and Union suggests - in exquisitely lyrical gestures - the breadth and depth of our public and private, civil and uncivil wars. These quietly powerful poems range from the gritty intrigues of New York City to subsistence farms, where "the dogs are in charge." Along the way, they witness the vestiges of place embodied in the "lazy-built, leaky drawl" of regional accents and the eloquence of artifacts that comprised an epoch - the Triptiks, Reader's Digest Condensed, Castro Convertibles, and Olds 88 of post World War II American culture. But Union also sings the eternal concerns of love and time, death and longing. And "sing" is the right verb for Share's passionate, richly realized work. Few poets manage such dexterous and fresh music. Few books are as lovely or profound. - Alice Fulton

Poetry. "In these succinct and deceptively simple poems, Smith makes dancing and wine-glasses and summers gone into emblems of longing and lasting, with marvellous eldritch conviction. There is sweet (not over-sweet) nostalgia here, and wit, as well as a gleam of malevolent knowing peeping through the damask. What does it know? That the delightful parties do not go on forever."--Zachary Bos "Elspeth Smith's poems are indeed 'dangerous cakes'; tiny parcels of benign delightfulness with danger at their centres. A patch of grass, a fresh covering of snow, an old shoe box take a sinister turn if you dare to join the party."--Lorraine Mariner