In AFTER THE DANSE, we discover the poetry and prose of Mercedes Webb-Pullman, whose feminine sensibilities and mytho-poetic lyricism dance like the flames of a candle. It is her voice - irreverent, direct, musical - singing with a playfully sinister passion, illuminating the dark chambers of the human heart. Webb-Pullman masterfully observes the commedia within the tragic, the mythic within the heartbreak. She draws readers in gently, via querulous Greek gods and demigods, before proceeding to the lives of survivors of the 20th Century's furies, a pirouette into the blood and marrow of...

Devotees of Mercedes' kaleidoscopic oeuvre will greet this new gathering as an event; lovers of world poetry new to her work will delight in the layers of concentric etymology and passion that infuse Mercedes' prose. In ONO, indigenous Maori speech is illuminated through the subconscious of the observer, the meditations of the traveller, and the sensuality of the wanderer. Count ONO as a radiant addition to any poetry lover's bookshelf.

Bravo Charlie Foxtrot was the registration of the last Tiger Moth my father owned, and the last plane he crashed. I returned to New Zealand after almost 40 years away, to help care for my mother in her last years. As her memory was lost, I remembered. A time of family, and place.

Tasseography is a divination or fortune-telling method that interrogates patterns in tea leaves, coffee grounds, or wine sediments. It derives from the French word tasse, which in turn derives from the cognate Arabic word tassa, and the Greek suffix -graph. Divination attempts to gain insight through intuitive interpretation. This is book collects interpretations of symbols I've heard and read about or seen used by readers, including my mother. You, as a reader, will develop your own vocabulary of the leaves. This is just a suggested starting-place.

"The oxygen and hydrogen will now have the honor of combining before Your Majesty." - Professor John Henry Pepper
In a world that never was but should have been, steam rules the sea, the skies and the aether. Amid a cacophony of cranking sprockets and cogs, in chuffs of steam and soot, "Clockwork Kiru: Steampunk Haiku" looks to the future through the lens of the past - through the imagistic language of haiku. In this anthology of steampunk haiku, fifty authors take the reader on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure with haiku of mystery, magic, science and romance.
With haiku...

A collection of poems published online or in print between 2008 and 2014.