If you are a contributor to the 2019 Summer Issue and did not receive an email with a copy of the galley and instructions for making corrections, please contact us immediately at:

editor@therawartreview.com

 

Pamela Sumners

5 poems by Pamela Sumners (click here to read)

Pamela Sumners Featured Poet Page (click here to read)

 

 

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

 

RAR Summer 2019 Contributors:

We are in the process of producing the galley for the Summer 2019 Issue now.

Here are the upcoming steps:

1. RAR produces a galley for the journal issue.
2. RAR sends the galley to all contributors who verify, correct and/or approve the state of their work.
3. Contributors give the “okay-as-is” approval or return corrected work to RAR either as an attached Word Doc or embedded in an email message.
4. RAR produces the Electronic Version of the Journal (PDF) and posts it to the website where it is available for reading and to download.
5. Contributors review the posted version and notify RAR if there are any problems that were missed.
6. RAR makes any final corrections and submits to the printer for the printed version of the journal.
7. Printed version is published.

We expect to have the galley for the Summer 2019 Journal Issue out by the November 08, 2019.

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