Tag: poetry books

  • Book Review – Blue Fan Whirring by Mike Jurkovic

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    Mike’s delightful book of haiku grabs a reader right from the start and never lets go. Powerful images are presented immediately, and unfold throughout the book, interspersed with a few black and white images that are very Zen in their juxtaposition. Some haiku are full of alliteration that makes the mouth sing as you read…

  • Poetry Book Review: A Morsel of Bread, A Knife by Roberta P. Feins

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        A Morsel of Bread, A Knife by Roberta P. Feins Center on Contemporary Art Occasional Monograph Series 84 pp., $18.00   Of all the topics poets tackle, the topic of the mother-daughter relationship ranks high on the scale of interest. Writers endlessly probe memories, conversations, events, inherited traits and objects, rights of passage.…

  • Book Review: Bombing the Thinker by Darren C. Demaree

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    For today’s post, we asked our assistant editor Joshua A. Colwell to review Darren C. Demaree’s new poetry book, Bombing the Thinker (Backlash Press, 2018). This is Josh’s first time writing a review for our website. We hope you enjoy it.  Poet Darren C. Demaree writes from Columbus, Ohio. His works have won him numerous awards,…

  • Notes on Enter Here: poems by Alexis Rhone Fancher

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    Enter Here: poems by Alexis Rhone Fancher. Published by KYSO Flash Press, Seattle, 2017. Soft cover, 112 p., $18.00. In January of 2016, Gyroscope Review published an interview with Los Angeles poet and photographer Alexis Rhone Fancher. Rhone Fancher’s unapologetic, sharp work graced the pages of our issue 16-1 and I’ve been enchanted with her…

  • Today We Offer You Self-Published Poetry Books

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    Welcome to our first-ever self-published book links party! We decided, after getting a few requests in April about self-published books of poetry, to offer readers a chance to connect with some of these authors. We hope you enjoy the selections. Please click on the book cover images for more information about each publication. Disclaimer: Gyroscope Review…

  • Book Links Party 2017 – The Final Post For National Poetry Month

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    Welcome to our final post for our Book Links Party 2017 in honor of National Poetry Month.   We had hoped to have a few more book links to share this week, but we only received  two. Here they are; click on the book covers to link to the publishers’ websites:     Our earlier…