This post is just to spread the word about a terrific fiction writer from Australia named Jen Craig. My enthusiam is based on her 2nd and 3rd novels to appear in print:

Any fan of Thomas Bernhard's novels will immediately take to what Craig is up to and I only hope she keeps at it and keeps getting published. Her first novel, Since the Accident, was published in 2013 and is, of course, on my "to read" list.

Two poems

Trilobites of Christ

Marmalade tribunals regulate
Vehicular rumination until dawn
Giving static horse-play
Roman eccentricities
That will never dissipate.

Gruff, hunchback,
Display weasels
Hand off Olympic torches
To eternity.

Does negative growth
Enhance funicular
Homicide theaters?

The give back will secretly hover...



End Tidal CO2

Recriminating flesh tablets
Of riverside angst
Or cross-referenced spindles
Deep in the cycle carryover
Not noticing a return coronation ablation
For display purposes only.

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Top Poetry Picks

These are the poetry books that have impressed me the most so far this year. None are 2012 publications.

Rod Smith's "Deed"




Gil Ott's "The Whole Note"



Michael Gottlieb's "The Likes of Us"



Craig Watson's "Sleepwalking With Orpheus"



Frank Sherlock's "Over Here"



William Fuller's "Three Replies"

White-haired Melody, a novel by Furui Yoshikichi

I am being deeply affected by this quietly but profoundly meditative narrative. Full of subtle musings and observations on themes of aging, madness and death, the book is also full of the distinctively Japanese appreciation for the myriad joys and beauties to be found in the commonplace and quotidian. It's a terrific example of how a novel about nothing can be about virtually everything.

"elegan trogon" from How's the Cows by Jess Mynes

pitch a fit snow recedes
lops red carpet hickey heart
intersects forget-me-not distant body
mining emergent designs
animate trepan stare-off
written on her Chucks
superheroes loom closer
to why sea anemones wink slyly
spiky thrushes tip wishes
mapping your bending spine
when it ceases to be valuable
finish to release a grip grown suspect



How's the Cows can be purchased here