Books published by Omnidawn Publishing

Winner of the Omnidawn Open Book Prize

Winner of the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Prize

Poems of the female troubadours of 12th-century France (original Provencal on facing pages)

A lyric examination of life and poetics from this esteemed writer and translator

An immigrant's lyric narrative of humor, illicit revelation, insight, and desire

An epic meditation on contemporary American catastrophe and struggle

Spare, vivid lyrics on the microclimate of coastal California

Winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest

A chapbook-length poem that explores the cultural and personal weight of Ohio's rail history

A chapbook of prose poems on existence and the self, with French on facing pages

Scientific elegies of ambition and failure from this esteemed poet

Features poems that demonstrate an awareness of what enormous challenges constitute the turning toward - or away from - the many faces of experience.

Features poems that are explorations into the personal, social, and political nature of speech.

Features poems that are conversational, meditative, minimalist, and expansive and are unified by an insistence to reach, with language, through language, to what is ever outside a word's ability to name.

The vibrancy of these poems derives from the paradox between immanence and constancy of the spirit that infuses daily life and its provisional, intractable nature. Through these poems, Robinson demonstrates that we exercise our aliveness when we reach into the essence of experience, attempting to grasp exactly that which our grasp cannot contain.

Features poems that demonstrate how language that intentionally draws little attention to itself can reflect the subtlest occlusions and luminosities of experience.

Harm performs the loss of that fictive division between a unified body and its surrounding world.

Revisiting the backstory of three Victorian novels - "Eve's Ransom", "The Moonstone", and "Woman in White", this lyrical examination strikes an affinity for the feminine within its social and physical landscape. It includes contemporary verses that expose hidden paths and plot twists that challenge readers to take stock of their own lives.

Songs without Words (Romances sans paroles) is the book in which, unabashedly, Paul Verlaine becomes himself and, in so doing, becomes the iconic poet of the French nineteenth century.

Inspired by 'the plot genie' - a plot-generating device created in the 1930s that used numerical games of chance to divine character traits and plot points - this book-length poem discusses the ways in which people are re-created, inspired, aroused, and persuaded by the power of the stories that they listen to and share.

This collection explores the ways that a meditative lyric can address the most intimate and subtle experiences of living, while the diction remains as direct and urbane as it is multi-valenced in its range from serious to wry to confidential to questioning.