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Coming in January 2024
Three new poetry collections

The Pendulum Moves Off by Theodore Haddin, a poem is a house by linda ravenswood, and The Book of Failures by Neil Shepard.

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The Book of Failures: poems by Neil Shepard. This is a predominantly dark blue/gray colored cover with a sinking dinghy in and a haze of stars and cattails.
The Pendulum Moves Off: poems by Theodore Haddin. The cover shows a detail from "The Sower" an 1888 painting by Vincent Van Gogh, with the predominant color being gold from the setting sun. The human figure sowing seed forms vertical lines reflected by a heavily pruned Almond tree in the painting. lines of color represent the seed and the rows in the plowed field.
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a poem is a house by linda ravenswood, winner of the 2022 Arthur Smith Prize in poetry. Beige cover shows a hand drawn house. the lettering is done by hand.
Fall Titles
Brand New
Madville’s Fall Titles

Everybody Here Is Kin by BettyJoyce Nash, Ring of Earth by William Woolfitt, Pa’l Otro Lado by Juan Ochoa, and “The Truth” by Sam Pickering.

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Pa'l Otro Lado and other tales of bad hombres & nasty women by Juan Ochoa. Black cover with beige lettering and a woodblock figure wading into water in his boxer shorts
"The Truth" by Sam Pickering shows a painting of a man sitting beneath a tree with colorful leaves and flowers on the ground around him. The man is wearing a hat with a feather and playing a flute. He has on Dungarees and boots with ankles crossed at the knees.
Everybody Here is Kin by BettyJoyce Nash. Cover is a watercolor painting of children on a beach framed by driftwood. The colors are muted blue for sea and sky and sandy browns for the beach. Two children with dark hair play on the sand while a taller girl wades into the water. Painting by Gentry Lessman
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Ring of Earth: Stories by William Woolfitt shows a girl standing on a chair on a hillside field of wildflowers with mountains in the distance. The girl is doing something to try and mend a large amber bubble that is floating in front of her.


We publish a maximum of 24 titles per year, and all submissions are carefully selected. When we are open for submissions of any sort, you will find out about it here.


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By Delaney Rose / February 13, 2023
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