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A debut poetry collection by the winner of the 2013
Boston Review fiction contest.
List of contents
Inheritance
Seals
Silver Devils
Fallowfield Station
Whiskey Mantra
Lifeboat
Ghost Lake
Muskrat
The Encounter
At Piraeus
Song for a Sleeping Father
Rain Dance
Negative Theology
Saint Sebastian Ooh-La-La
Big Spender
Respite
The Rich
To My Creditors
Family Jewel
Curse of the Magdalene
Rubric
Skinnydipping
The Girls Who Work at the Makeup Counter
Appearances
Jig
The Well
Mirror Lake
Two Views of a Stag
Perdita
Tantum Ergo
Get with Child a Mandrake Root
Bernadette
The Emporer
Fandango
Song for a Smoke-Filled Room
Malefic
Inhuman
The Other Grandmother
Russian Brides
Hensol
The Wreckage
Florilegia
About the author
Born in Montreal, Kerry-Lee Powell has lived in Australia, Antigua, and The United Kingdom, where she studied Medieval and Renaissance literature at Cardiff University and directed a literature promotion agency. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies throughout the United Kingdom and North America, including
The Spectator, The Boston Review, and
The Virago Writing Women series. In 2013, she won
The Boston Review fiction contest,
The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award for short fiction, and the Alfred G. Bailey manuscript prize. A chapbook entitled “The Wreckage” has recently been published in England by Grey Suit Editions. A novel and short fiction collection are forthcoming from HarperCollins.
Inheritance is her first book.
Summary
A debut poetry collection by the winner of the 2013 Boston Review fiction contest.
Foreword
Co-op available
Galleys available at BEA
Blurbs from: Pamela Stewart (New Yorker poet & 5-time Pushcart winner, whose family used to own the Boston Globe), Anthony Howell, Glyn Maxwell, John Barton
Possible blurbs from: Matthew Zapruder, James Cervantes, Tony Hoagland, Robin Robertson, Simon Armitage
National radio campaign (targeting NPR/The Writers Almanac/Tell Me More)
National print campaign targeting Poetry, Verse Daily, The New Criterion, Poets & Writers, Poetry Show, Parnassus, Slate, NPR.org/David Orr, Boston Globe, Boston Review, & more (incl. UK-based poetry reviews, TBD)
Print campaign will also target poetry bloggers/reviewers
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