UnCollected Press is delighted to announce the publication of a full length book of poetry by renown and widely published Australian poet James Walton.

 

In an age where artistic expression is increasingly, and perhaps necessarily, politicized, Walton delivers a powerful reminder of the universality and timelessness of poetry. His work is a synthesis of musings on past and present, public and private as he moves seamlessly from the big issues – life, death, religion, power – to everyday, intimate details – how a cockroach moves, the making of milk, the ache of missing a lover – with the lightest of touches. A stranger’s small and spontaneous gesture in Arles, for instance, let us know that ‘there is no such thing as nation’. Walton’s poetry is a similarly unifying force, crossing boundaries of age, gender, race and culture.

Denise O’Hagan
Poetry Editor
The Blue Nib
Sept 2019

WINNING POEM

“Cello Suite” by Jason Gerrish  (click to read)

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FIRST RUNNER-UP

“The Rosebushes” by Donna Davis (click to read)

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Runner-up Winner of Charles Bukowski Drawing

“decaying sun under noontime rain” by Tohm Bakelas (click to read)

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RUNNERS-UP (ALPHABETICAL BY TITLE)

 

“Birth of The Blues” by Jonathan Andrew Perez (click to read)

 

“Chuck” by Thomas Ukinski (click to read)

 

“DREAMLAND AND CHARLES BUKOWSKI” BY CARMINE DANDREA (CLICK TO READ)

 

“EYES ROUND SOCKETS WITH NO LIGHT” BY DION O’REILLY (CLICK TO READ)

 

“FETCH” BY ELTON GLASER (CLICK TO READ)

 

“GOD OF LAND” BY LEON FEDOLFI (CLICK TO READ)

 

“On Reading Bukowski” BY Maggie Huff-Rousselle (click to read)

 

“THE VET IS COMING AT TWO” BY JAMES KELLY (CLICK TO READ)

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HONORABLE MENTION LIST

“Bad Boys Don’t Die” by Clare Welsh (click here to read)

“rest here” by Zoe Canner (click to read)

“Songs from the summer_kitchen” by Dawn Terpstra (click to read)

“Why Are You Crying in The Apple Tree” by John Gillen (click to read)

“learned helplessness” by Kay Lin (click to read)

“Ghost of Charles Bukowski Says What Professors in MFA Programs Won’t” by Scott Starbuck (click here to read)

“Rucky’s Corner Drug” by Robert Perchan (click to read)

“Burial” by Rachel Kaufman (click to read)

“America” by David Pickering (click to read)

“Hummingbird Summer” by Sofia Skavdahl (click to read)

“Blink” by Lyall Harris (click to read)

“Blue Peril” by Sheryl Massaro (click to read)

“Generalized_Anxiety_Disorder – GAD” by Olga Salinas (click to read)

“Dysmorphia” Lynne Schmidt (click to read)

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The Charles Bukowski Prize Shortlist

UnCollected Press is delighted to announce the publication of a full length book of poetry by renown and widely published English Poet poet Adrian Manning.

 

It is simply not enough to say that Adrian Manning is an outstanding poet and this book, ‘Digging Up The Bones’ is testament to that fact: Adrian Manning is, and has sealed an ever-growing inspirational and respected presence in the small press for over two decades: his work can be found the globe over, both online and in print: ‘Digging up The Bones’ is a selection that has been snatched and stolen from 18 chapbooks of poetry and a small selection of ‘uncollected poems’: From the opening, brilliant and eloquent opening poem ‘The Poet In His Underwear’ to the final poem   ‘A Mouthful of Numbness and Eyes Full of Light’ Adrian Manning has your attention.

Adrian Manning writes with a gentle , cool calculated and precise lyricism that moves effortlessly, he writes with a razor blade of truth. he writes with a hammer seeking justice, he writes with an angry axe that rages at the madness around us, he writes with a reflective, thoughtful sensitivity but always he writes with love and compassion.

John D. Robinson
Poet – Publisher – Editor – Artist

 

The Poems of Jendi Reiter

RAR Editors were overcome, consumed, delighted, and challenged by the power and beauty of Jendi Reiter’s poems.  We love the innovative use of language and form, the novel and intriguing ideas, the rich interwoven imagery and the surprising and revealing progression and movement throughout the poems.

Click on the link below to read a sample of Jendi’s poems in our FEATURED POET section

FEATURED POET: JENDI REITER

 

Uncollected Press, publisher of The Raw Art Review, is releasing Ed Wade’s book of poems The Mise En Abyme Jokebook.  Ed’s book is full of beautifully rendered, artistically refined, funny and poignant and aesthetically satisfying poems.  It is a book full of intriguing insights and vivid imagery and innovative trade-craft. This is a book of poems you all will love.  The book is available for pre-order below.

 

“The Immortal Sunflower”

by Sophia Falco

Pale brown Moses went down to Egypt land
To let somebody’s people go.
Keep him out of Florida, no UN there:
The poor governor is all alone,
With six hundred thousand illiterates.

American, I forgive you…I forgive you
Nailing black Jesus to an imported cross
Every six weeks in Dawson, Georgia.
America, I forgive you…I forgive you
Burning Japanese babies defensively–
I realize how necessary it was.
Your ancestor had beautiful thoughts in his brain.
His descendants are experts in real estate.
Your generals have mushrooming visions.
Every day your people get more and more
Cars, televisions, sickness, death dreams,
You must have been great
Alive.

In the 50+ years of reading and writing poetry, this is the most moving invocation to the muse I have found:

 

ON VACATION

The muse seems to be

on vacation and I was

going to write a poem

about my car-wreck of

a life, of the sadness

and beauty I’ve known,

like hearing the very

first cries of my

daughter and drinking

with my father on his

44^th birthday and his

dying just hours after

we had parted or

over-coming an addiction

or when my life-long

woman and I first

awoke as friends and

lovers: but the muse

seems to be on vacation,

I’ll dig in, sing songs,

dance, drink, smoke, pray,

hope, whatever it takes

to lure her back from

having a good time

elsewhere.

 

UnCollected Press has published John D. Robinson’s full-length book of poetry, “Hang In There”, this year.  It is likely to leave you trembling, deeply moved and paralyzed, angry but softened.  The range of responses is very broad.  The poems are open and uncompromising, red with brutal reality and red with compassion.  Click below to purchase.

We are also announcing our intention to publish John’s second full length book of poetry in January 2020.

Red Dance, by John D. Robinson (January 2020)

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