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is one of the most experienced book distribution companies in Europe, offers a fast, flexible and effective distribution service stretching across Great Britain, Ireland, Eastern and Western Europe. Since its inception in 1988, Gazelle has built up an unparalleled range of international publishers with lists spanning more than 200 subject areas. In the POETRY area you will find writers like:

Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Shane Rhodes, Diane Guichon, Julie Roorda, Claudine Bertrand, Laurence Hutchman, Rebecca Dunham, Charles Noble, Carol V. Davis, Titos Patrikios, Nick Mancuso, George McWhirter, Stanley Nelson, Ralph Sneeden, Steven Ross Smith, Gilles Cyr, Erin Keane, Matt Rader, Eric Cole, Vittorio Repetto, Adam Getty,  Glenna Luschei, Merle Nudelman, Shoshauna Shy, Elana Wolff, Irina Ratushinskaya, Peter Johnson, R. Vincent Razor, Anne Claire Poirier, John Leax, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Esther Schor, Lyn Lifshin, Luci Shaw, Kerry Shawn Keys, M. Travis Lane, Eric Greinke, Dan Jalowica, Judith Roche, Ruth Goring, Barry Callaghan ,Denise Desaultes, Inside the Outside: An Anthology of Avant-Garde American Poets, Henry David Thoreau, Christopher Patton, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Connie Fox, A.D. Winans, Peter Meinke, Yannick Marshall, Yemi Aganga, Kirby Congdon, Ricardo Sternberg, David Manicom, Terence Young, TM Stringfellow, Rhea Tregebov, Pierre Morency, George Ellenbogen, Charlene Jones, Linda Stitt, Andrew Steinmetz, David Solway, The Signal Anthology, Michael Harris, Carmine Starnino, Robert W. Nero, Peter Richardson, Stephen Scobie, Erin Mouré, Robert Melancon, Philip Stratford, Sharon Niederman, Miriam Sagan, Brent MacLaine, Stephen Levine, Louis Dudek, Norbert Krapf, Peter Jailall, Arthur Clark, Carla Hartsfield, Sheema Kalbasi, Roy K. Hall, SR. Ralph Gustafson, Martin Golan, Susan Glickman, Gerald Godin, Louise Fabiani, Jessica Hein, Heather Holland, Carol Kaupi, Goli Khalatbary, Victoria Brockmeier, John Brandi, Pasquale Verdicchio, Robert Alexander, Dennis Maloney, Karis Shearer, Martha Ronk, Robert Swearingen, Harvey Stanbrough, Harry Smith, Robert Allen, Bin Ramke, Don Coles, Stephanie Bolster, Anne Dandurand, d’bi.young, Anne Corkett, Ruth Dallas,   and many others…

Ralph Waldo Emerson | Self-Reliance | Gazelle Books

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Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson contains the essence of transcendental philosophy. Emerson reflects upon human potential & encourages us to listen to the voice within. He explores & illuminates the concepts of idealism, individualism & spiritualism. His belief in determining one’s values from personal insights rather than conforming to societal judgements remains pertinent today. Emerson has inspired classical writers from Thoreau, Whitman & Nietzsche to contemporary authors such as D. H. Lawrence, William Carlos Williams & Ernest Hemingway. Continue reading →

Christopher Patton | OX | Gazelle Books

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The poems in Christopher Patton’s debut collection, “Ox” are about seeing clearly, and also about relinquishing the need to see with specific intent. Through this tension they find their idiosyncratic magic. Like the 12th-century Buddhist parable of the ox-herder, this collection begins with a search, and its open-ended journey establishes the form of its religious and philosophical reach. Moving across lucently rendered North American landscapes, Patton catches a glimpse of his own spiritual setting, and in the process suggests a new direction, perhaps an entirely new scale, for Canadian nature poetry. Brimming with beautifully-controlled descriptions and startlingly precise word-play, “Ox” is an image of vulnerability before the world’s plenitude. It is an astonishing achievement. Continue reading →

Henry David Thoreau | Civil Disobedience | Gazelle Books

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Civil Disobedience by Thoreau as been one of the most historically significant and influential essays ever written. Since its initial publication in 1849 is has inspired resistance movements from the Danish WWII underground in the 1940s to the South African anti-apartheid movement at the end of the 20th Century. Seminal leaders from Mahatma Ghandi to Martin Luther King have found encouragement and enlightenment in Thoreau’s words. Continue reading →

Inside the Outside | An Anthology of Avant-Garde American Poets | Gazelle Books

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This volume brings together 13 major poets of the American small press scene, each representing an important branch of the avant-garde as it has developed over the past forty years. Each of the poets is presented in a large selection, in most cases chosen by the poets themselves. They range in age from 41 to 81, their poetics range from visual/conceptual poetry to surrealism, from personal/observation poetry to cut-up & collage poetry. Powerful, touching, innovative & humorous, these poems illuminate the underground poetry scene to give the reader a view of the real new American poetry. Kirby Congdon, Hugh Fox, Stanley Nelson, Harry Smith, Richard Kostelanetz, A.D. Winans, Lyn Lifshin, Eric Greinke, Lynne Savitt, Doug Holder, John Keene, Mark Sonnenfeld & Richard Morris Continue reading →

Claudine Bertrand | The Last Woman | Gazelle Books

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The Last Woman, a selection from twenty years of poetry, is a voyage into being and living, into the country where a woman reveals herself without fear. This lyricism of survival emerges directly from an intimacy of words spoken by one in search of roots, loving and spiritual. French critic, Jean-Pierre Faye, says: “Claudine Bertrand stands between Gaston Miron and Tristan Tzara: a Quebec poet who invents her own new language.” This selection includes poems from La dernière femme (1991), L’amoureuse intérieure (1997), Tomber du jour (1999), Le corps en tête (2001), and Jardin des Vertiges (2002). Continue reading →

Laurence Hutchman | Selected Poems | Gazelle Books

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Laurence Hutchman’s poetry is a witness to the world around him to the patterns of families, nations, and landscape. He hears Mozart in the supermarket, and Nelligan breaking into song. While there’s a refreshingly outward-looking documentary zeal in his poetry, transformations abound: a typewriter becomes a ‘silent temple,’ a baseball glove a ‘leather flower,’ a forest a ‘way of going into myself.’ With this selection from his previous books, it’s clearer than ever how Hutchman’s mix of curiosity-driven realism and metaphorical surprise gives his poetry generosity and scope.” — Brian Bartlett Continue reading →

Rebecca Dunham | The Miniature Room | Gazelle Books

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With tender probing and tight expressive language, ‘The Miniature Room’ explores the grace and power of the miniscule as it exists within an infinite universe. This 2006 T S Eliot Prize-winning collection utilises rich imagery and complex interlocking meanings as author Rebecca Durham builds off the classical themes of art, history, nature, love, life, religion, and motherhood to provide a sensual and inquisitive body of work. Continue reading →

Charles Noble | Death Drive Through Gaia Paris | Gazelle Books

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Each of the poems in Noble’s latest collection is seventeen syllables, a kind of haiku. Nobel explains that these “short hairs,” or pseudo haikus, are not in fact traditional haikus. Rather he prefers to call them logopoeic haikus, even though this is a contradiction in terms. Logopoeia, of course, being Ezra Pound’s term and of the three possible dominances (the other two of the standard ménage à trois being phanoand melopoeia) he claimed logopoeia to be the riskiest— a tending to philosophy and a leaving of poetry. Continue reading →

Carol V. Davis | Into the Arms of Pushkin: Poems of St. Petersburg | Gazelle Books

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Carol V. Davis is the granddaughter of Jewish immigrants from Russia. Her fascination with Russia, aided by a Fulbright grant, drew her to St Petersburg in the mid 1990s. Over the next decade, she divided her time between the US and Russia, where, as an American-born Jew, she was an outsider in Russian society. This collection of poems expresses the struggle with language barriers and cultural differences — struggles heightened as Davis helped her children adjust to their new daily life. Inspired by Russia’s rich history, its economic changes, and landscape, these poems express a unique perspective of Russia. Continue reading →