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Albany Poets, and Poet Hounds, and Canadian Reviews...Oh My!

So Rebecca Schumejda was nice enough to ask me 3 questions about the final poem in Something Random & Tragic To Set The Guts AFlame... over at Albany Poets. Thanks to her, and to them for the love!

While we’re at it, here’s A READING of that poem...

And speaking of...the new book picked up a nice mention from POET HOUND, and a great review from Canada’s own Stephen Hines, who said:

“McCreesh doesn't see what we see. He's looking elsewhere, at the underside, what's beneath, what's outside. He sees the people that go everyday unseen, some not wanting to be seen, some just needing to be noticed once to make everything okay, to prove to themselves that there's a reason to get out of bed the next morning. McCreesh sees all this, then he borrows a pen, buys a Guinness with a smile for the waitress, and writes it all down. And we are better for it.”

And if that wasn’t enough, Sam Snoek-Brown put not one, not two, but all 3 of my slated-for-2013 releases on his Suggested Summer Reading List...which is mighty kind of him.

And speaking of the drunk poems...have you seen the DrunkSkull Woldwide photo album? You haven’t? Well, let’s fix that right now! ENJOY!

Available Now! (For The First Time In Over a Decade!)

Today, Mary Celeste Press releases the expanded 3rd edition of my second book Something Random & Tragic To Set The Guts Aflame...

$12 + shipping. Get it HERE.

It features the original chapbook (19 poems), plus this expanded 3rd edition adds an additional 21 uncollected poems -- all written during the same era. Most of these poems have only appeared in the small press mags and journals that accepted them years ago, so -- unless you have an exhaustive collection of small press books -- they should be new to most of you.

Those of you on my NOTIFY LIST know why the book means so much to me, but the short version is that it marked the first time someone believed enough in my work to really put their money where their mouth was. And for that I am forever grateful. Seeing the book back in print after so many years is truly fantastic...it’s the 2nd best thing that happened to me today!

This is the first best thing:
https://www.facebook.com/tlaturner

1 year ago today.

Best.
Year.
Ever.



Vouched...

Tyler Gobble of Vouched Books did a right-fine Q&A where we talked Woody Guthrie, Joan Didion, and one-armed Stonewall Jackson’s fetid corpse. Also, poetry was mentioned, along with And Turns Still the Sun at Dusk Blood-Red... and A Deep and Gorgeous Thirst.

And if that wasn’t enough, Mel Bosworth (author of Freight and Every Laundromat in the World reviews the forthcoming book for drunk poems for The Small Press Book Review.

The re-release of the long-out of-print, and new, expanded 3rd edition of Something Random & Tragic To Set The Guts Aflame... is due mid-May from Mary Celeste Press.

In the biz, we call this ACTION.

Plaza de Toros -- Madrid, Spain

DrunkSkull pictures and stickers continue to pop up everywhere...check out the album HERE...

Mel Bosworth is swallowed by A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst, and comes out on the other side to tell about it HERE.

And Chicago Literati has piece covering a reading our friend Ben Tanzer was involved in...wearing his “I Am Hosho McCreesh” T-Shirt. Big thanks to Ben, and the ever-awesome Windy city for the love and support over the years!

DrunkSkull...

T-shirts and assorted sundry for A Deep and Gorgeous Thirst have begun landing in far-off and exotic locales the world over, with our buddy the DrunkSkull clocking some serious frequent flier miles. Photos and sightings of “Hosho McCreesh” have been trickling in: all are collected on the book’s FACEBOOK and TUMBLR accounts.

Do you want a shirt? Order one HERE.

Or maybe some earrings like the photo above? Or maybe a nice necklace? Well the kind folks of SaboDesign are happy to oblige HERE.

Shipping out soon!

Way back when on the Facebooks I asked if folks wanted a “I Am Hosho McCreesh” T-Shirt. The deal was a free shirt if the recipient would snap photos of their hometowns and watering holes. There were responses. A list was compiled.

Well, the day of reckoning is upon us.

As evidenced above, they are here, they are printed thanks to the fine folks at Guerrilla Graphix, their in the process of being readied, and should be on the wing sometime next week.

Now, if you are thinking -- “Hey, I’d be willing to wear one of those...” you’re in luck. Artistically Declined Press (fearless publisher of my drunken opus A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst)has built a PRESS STORE wherein shirts like these, along with some other cool press-related sundries, can be procured.

Cheers! Clink!

Ketchup.

Quotes.
A Deep. and Gorgeous. Thirst.

Hardbacks and Clamshell editions of And Turns Still the Sun at Dusk Blood-red... are over halfway to sold out. If you want these special editions, get ’em HERE. Or add the book to you To-Read section at Goodreads.

New episode of the PODCAST for the re-release of Something Random & Tragic to Set the Guts Aflame...

And if you want a sticker to mar your local skyline or watering hole drop me a line HERE.


New Store here on the Website...

There’s a new STORE page to the website here, where hard to find broadsides, and other things never previously for sale can be found -- including the occasional original watercolor.

And a few drunk poems from the forthcoming A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst saw the light of day with This Zine Will Change Your Life.

The Something Random & Tragic Readings

Episode 3 of the podcast is live.

A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst is Tumbl’in.

And I wait with bated breath for more news on And Turns Still the Sun at Dusk Blood-red...

A Random & Tragic Expanded 3rd Edition...

In October of 2000 I got a rejection letter from Matthew Ward for a magazine he was editing called HEIST! The magazine had changed its focus to short fiction, and was no longer looking at poetry. However, Matt liked the work I’d sent, and believed enough in what I was doing at that early stage, that he wanted to publish a chapbook. And so was born Something Random & Tragic To Set The Guts Aflame...

I tell you, I can still remember the feeling: standing there in the little dining room, raising my fist to the sky for a full minute while reading those words for the first time. I’d been publishing for just under a year (my first book a self-published venture), and the idea that someone I didn’t know and had never met believed enough in my work to put up their own blood, sweat, and scratch to put it out both astonished and delighted me. Truth is, it still does. And at that early stage in my writing career, it was the boost I needed to really sit down and do serious work. It was victory...a pure, unadulterated , delicious victory.

Thirteen years later, and here we are. Tremendous things like I could hardly imagine then have come to pass, and I have amazing relationships and opportunities to publish with some of the very best the small press has to offer. Books, stories, letters, and someday soon, perhaps even novellas...all of it owing a little something to Matthew Ward, and his Mary Celeste Press (formerly Mockfrog Design Press) without which, who knows where I’d be. And so, when Matt suggested we put out an expanded 3rd edition of the long out-of-print manuscript, I damn near stuck my fist in the air for another full minute!

The book is due out in May -- one of three books slated for release this year. The original 19 poems are, this time, accompanied by 22 uncollected poems of the same era. And those who have a first or 2nd edition know the book came with a CD of the first six readings I ever did. I’m releasing not only those original readings, but additional ones via this free PODCAST.

So save up a few ugly pennies everyone! After over two years of relative publishing silence, this promises to be a big year full of exciting new stuff!