Books published by Old Cove Press

Set in 1833 Lexington, Kentucky, this historical coming-of-age novel for young readers features resonant themes and topics-slavery, abolition, racism, prejudice, class consciousness, a devastating epidemic, and deep personal loss-as its thirteen-year-old white female narrator fights injustice and uncertainty with integrity, love, and hope.

Affrilachian Poet Bernard Clay narrates his West-Side Louisville upbringing and the complexities of Black Appalachian identity in this debut collection of poems compiled from more than twenty years of work.

A new collection of persona poems from award-winning poet Frank X Walker that tell the untold story of legendary African American jockey Isaac Burns Murphy (1861¿1896).

In this new edition of Gurney Norman¿s classic tale, the young hero, Jack, wages a revolutionary battle against an evil ruler to free his people, ¿the folks,¿ and their lands¿the Hill Domain and magical Ancient Creek.

The first comprehensive poetry collection by award-winning Kentucky writer and poet Mary Ann Taylor-HallSelected and arranged by the author, the poems in Out of Nowhere unfold as a luminous narrative of the poet's life, moving through seasons of experience-from the first stirrings of childhood consciousness to present-day meditations on loss and grief-with candor, clarity, and startling tenderness. She opens to the reader the intimate landscape of her life in rural Kentucky, which she connects directly to the immensities and astonishing mysteries of the universe that come smashing through even our most ordinary days.Published in 2017 by Old Cove Press

A powerful collection from Frank X Walker, winner of the 2005 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry.In 68 poems, Kentucky writer Frank X Walker expertly melds autobiography, political commentary, and literary allusions into a devastatingly beautiful journey through the real "e;Affrilachia"e;- a word Walker created to render visible the lives of the African-Americans who call the rural and Appalachian South home. Written with passion, clarity, and emotional honesty, the poems in Black Box illuminate profound experiences at the intersection of race, love, social justice, family, identity and place.Published in 2005 by Old Cove Press