Poetry

Introducing a new chapbook, Elis Dances, by Hans Raimund.

A major Austrian writer, Hans Raimund is considered one of the most important voices of his generation in all of German-language poetry today. Born in 1945 in Lower Austria, Raimund and his wife live in a country house — the stimulus of much of his poetry — in the Austrian province of Burgenland. A gifted translator as well as a writer, Raimund received the Austrian W.H. Auden Translation Prize for his translations of Italian, French, and English authors. In addition to the wide publications of his essays in literary publications and newspapers, Raimund is the author of eight books of poetry and four prose collections. In recognition of his oeuvre, Raimund was awarded Austria's prestigious Georg Trakl Prize in 1994 and the Anton Wildgans Prize in 2004, and he has also received literary prizes in Italy . His books are translated into Slovenian, Bulgarian, Albanian, Italian, and English, including: Hardly the blink of an eye, Words and Spaces, Phoenix, Arizona, 1993; Verses of a marriage, Event Horizon Press, Desert Hot Springs, California, 1996; and Viennese Ventriloquies, Event Horizon Press, Desert Hot Springs, California, 1998. His poetry has been described as "outstanding in its musical quality and its extremely successful blending of classical forms with modern elements."

Introducing a new chapbook, The Dreaming House, by David Chorlton.

David Chorlton was born in Austria and grew up in Manchester, England, home of rain and industry. He moved to Austria in 1971 to live in Vienna, where he developed his work as an artist and began to write poetry. He used to travel often by train around Europe to explore and to paint. Seven years later, he moved to Phoenix (his wife’s home city). Within a few years, he was publishing poems in small press magazines around the country and individual collections followed, including chapbooks: Assimilation (winner of the Main Street Rag contest), Common Sightings (Winner of the Palanquin Press contest), and Greatest Hits (Pudding House Publications), and books A Normal Day Amazes Us (Kings Estate Press) and Return to Waking Life (Main Street Rag Publishing Company). He has shown his art work in several galleries and art centers, and he has given many readings of his poetry as well as occasional dramatic readings outside that genre.

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#2: Elis Dances, by Hans Raimund
#1: The Dreaming House, by David Chorlton