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Book Review: Virtue’s End by Joseph Sale
A personal epic poem, the stakes are high in Virtue’s End – Horus must save the land of imagination from the vile beasts that desire to destroy it. Inspired by Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene, it’s no surprise that the poet appears within this tome, and several other writers of great fame too, including Mary Shelley…
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Book Review: Hellward by James Sale
As Tolkien sought to write a modern English mythology, so Sale seeks to write a Divine Comedy for our time. Inspired by the author’s real life suffering and near death experience while undergoing treatment for cancer, Sale uses Dante as his guide through the 12 wards of hell. Written in the Italian style of a…
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Book Review: White Noise by Rhonda Parrish
A collection of zombie poems – incredible – and it’s even better than it sounds! This slim volume comprises twenty poems, all themed around zombies. The poems are diverse in their scope. Some are like a complete zombie story in a few words. Poems such as Slippery When Wet, Maybe Not, The Hardest Promise I…
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Book Review: The Other Side of the Door by Rhonda Parrish
I love the anthologies Rhonda Parrish edits, but it’s nice to read her own short stories for a change in The Other Side of the Door. This collection of four ghost stories and a spooky poem kicks off with the titular The Other Side of the Door, which is a moving depiction of a child…
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Buddy Read #1 with Joe @ The Dumbest Blog Ever: The Odyssey by Homer
The Odyssey is a fascinating book (Homer must be raking in the royalties after all these years), and I couldn’t think of a better person to read it with than Joe. If you don’t know Joe, you should check out his blog The Dumbest Blog Ever. Don’t be fooled by its title, it is totally…
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Book Review: Wet Water by WB Welch
35 poems of lust, love and all things relationship, in this collection by horror author, WB Welch. Dark, intense and full of adult language, these poems outline the progression of a romantic relationship – from first lust, intense physical attraction, to comfortable intimacy, then heart ache and irritation, before finally something more akin to love.…
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Book Review: Stranger Paths by RJ Zarkani
Raghad Jabbar Zarkani grew up in Iraq, survived a war and now lives in the U.S. These are her poems. Divided into three parts; Part I Contains poems of her life in Iraq during wartime, her childhood experiences of Saddam Hussein and the way people treat her as an immigrant. Part II has poems that…