Two new books added to my Internet Archive profile: Algol, Part III and Do Not Sell The Earth: Popular Selections – Richard J Tilley

$45 personalized poems – Richard J Tilley

Romanticizing Poverty – Richard J Tilley

"He’s a long time dead but comfortable with the living, like a benign headmaster or a low church vicar welcoming the knitting circle."

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Welcoming Bone by Oz Hardwick (2022 Inverse Journal) https://www.inversejournal.com/poetry/youll-never-recognise-yourself-again-four-prose-poems-by-oz-hardwick

You'll Never Recognise Yourself Again — Four Prose-Poems by Oz Hardwick | Inverse Journal

Oz Hardwick presents four prose-poems where a poetic archaeology excavates for meaning in spaces meant for display, where dioramas abound, while a poetic gaze retrieves meaning from objects

Inverse Journal
You have to go after them – Richard J Tilley

In the midst of snow,
news of spring arrives.

The icy plum tree is adorned
with glittering jasper branches.

Its fragrant, charming faces
are in half-bloom,

like a beautiful woman,
newly washed,
emerging from her bath
at the edge of the courtyard.

Nature favors them
with glittering moonlight.

Let us raise
our gold cups
and drown in wine.

Who could refuse?

These blooms
have no compare.
~~ 'The Fisherman's Pride' by Lin Qingzhao from 'The Magpie at Night'; trans. by Wendy Chen

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"but the heart, the heart makes its own light
deep in its cavern, wanting to read the love written on the walls
of the body, looking for clues to access this brief world."

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Praise by Chris Banks (2026) https://www.facebook.com/chris.banks.3990/posts/pfbid02vVDKvxq6Rn6iBZAiffpaJtQzkzUDZKB5rQ1aPJzqvtpY2pcaWERYf3HqucvH9AVFl

Chris Banks

New poem.

The last leaves of April – Richard J Tilley

Companion – Richard J Tilley

Microtones – Richard J Tilley