motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life: Lightbearing Afrofuturism from Destiny Hemphill The Prelude: Dank, upsurgent pastoralia from Marty Cain Something Evergreen Called Life: Nightpiercing songs of exile and intimacy from Sudanese poet Rania Mamoun translated by [...]
What's next from Action Books? motherworld: a devotional from the alter-life: Lightbearing Afrofuturism from Destiny Hemphill The Prelude: Dank, upsurgent pastoralia from Marty Cain Something Evergreen Called Life: Nightpiercing songs of exile and intimacy from Sudanese poet Rania Mamoun [...]
We are currently reading submissions. The editors of Action Books invite poets and translators of radical inclination to submit a full-length manuscript to our free March reading period. Manuscripts may be submitted via Submittable and the successful ones will be [...]
Ursula Andkjær Olsen's Trilogy. Translated by Katrine Øgaard Jensen. With My Jewel Box (Mit smykkeskrin), prize-winning poet Ursula Andkjær Olsen completes her visionary trilogy—a “fairy tale of the universe” investigating grief, bodies, motherhood, and the physical [...]
Our year-end list of your favorite Action Books Blog Posts is here! We're so grateful for our dedicated readers and contributors! (I remain especially grateful to anyone who still believes in the importance of reviewing!) Thank you for your continued [...]
Lovely Raju Who are your favorite poets? I was greatly inspired by William Wordsworth. "The Solitary Reaper" and "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" led me to write the poetry of nature. Later I just tried [...]
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I Need Music (Fall 2021) by Anaïs Duplan sift (Fall 2021) by Christian Hawkey The Contortionist Whispers | Salvo Series #5 (Winter 2022) by Will Alexander My Jewel Box (Winter 2022) by Ursula Andkjær [...]
