WOE TO THE LAND SHADOWING: A Red Shuttleworth Collection of Poems

Woe to the Land Shadowing

poems by

Red Shuttleworth

Woe to the Land Shadowing, a collection of poems from the Washington State 2015 fire season, published by Blue Horse Press, is available from Amazon.

Red Shuttleworth is a three-time winner of the Spur Award for Poetry from Western Writers of America: Johnny Ringo (2013), Roadside Attractions (2011), and Western Settings (2001).

Shuttleworth was named "Best Living Western Poet" by True West magazine in 2007.

For decades Shuttleworth's poems, short stories, and one-act plays have been published in numerous journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Chariton Review, Concho River Review, Interim, Los Angeles Review, Ontario Review, Prairie Schooner, South Dakota Review, True West, Weber: The Contemporary West and West Branch.

Red Shuttleworth with his Irish Wolfhound, Peaches

(photo by Ciara Shuttleworth)

Red Shuttleworth's plays have been widely presented, with readings and productions in both professional and academic settings, including High Plains Fandango at The State University of New York at Fredonia, Pistolero Rideaway at Sundance Playwrights Lab, and Memorabilia at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespearean Festival.

Red Shuttleworth

(photo by Ciara Shuttleworth)

HIGH PLAINS FANDANGO, Red Shuttleworth's Play in Paperback

High Plains Fandango

a play by

Red Shuttleworth

High Plains Fandango, Red Shuttleworth's play about the approach of water scarcity and the possible privatization of aquifers like the Ogallala Aquifer under the High Plains, is available as a paperback (cover photograph courtesy of Ed Kashi/VII) from Humanitas Media Publishing.  It can be ordered from Amazon.

Clayton Howe as "O'Garr" and Tony Taylor as "Ken Adams"

in the SUNY-Fredonia production of Red Shuttleworth's High Plains Fandango.

High Plains Fandango takes place in a small, withered cattle town in western Nebraska.  The citizens face a Faustian bargain for survival.

Commissioned in 2010 by the Theatre Arts Department at The State University of New York at Fredonia, High Plains Fandango was developed (with a public reading) by the Echo Theater Company of Los Angeles under the direction of Ethan Phillips.   High Plains Fandango, directed by Tom Loughlin, premiered at SUNY-Fredonia on February 24, 2012.

 Red Shuttleworth

Red Shuttleworth, poet and playwright, named by True West magazine "Best Living Western Poet" in 2007, is a three-time winner of the Spur Award (from Western Writers of America) for Poetry.  His plays have been presented widely in both professional and academic venues, including at The Foothill Theatre (CA), Spirit of the Horse Theatre (MN), Sundance Playwrights Lab, The Sun Valley Festival of New Western Drama, and the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespearean Festival.

HIGH PLAINS FANDANGO: Paperback Edition of Red Shuttleworth's play

High Plains Fandango

a play by

Red Shuttleworth

Red Shuttleworth's hoof-to-the-teeth High Plains Fandango, a play about the coming scarcity of water and the potential privatization of the Ogallala Aquifer below the High Plains, is now a paperback book, published by Humanitas Media Publishing, and is available from Amazon.

Clayton Howe (as O'Garr) and Tony Taylor (as Ken Adams)

in Red Shuttleworth's High Plains Fandango

Described as a tragi-comedy by Dr. Jerry L. Crawford, Dean Emeritus of The College of Fellows of the American Theatre at The Kennedy Center, predicated by water scarcity being the world's must critical future security issue, High Plains Fandango depicts the inhabitants of one small western Nebraska town's Faustian bargain amidst the impending business interests of attempting water privatization of the Ogallala Aquifer.

Red Shuttleworth

Red Shuttleworth, named by True West magazine "Best Living Western Poet" in 2007, is a three-time winner of the Spur Award from Western Writers of America.  His plays have been presented widely in both professional and academic venues, including at The Foothill Theatre (CA), Spirit of the Horse Theatre (MN), Sundance Playwright Lab, The Sun Valley Festival of New Western Drama, and the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespearean Festival.

Claire Elise Walton (as DQ) and Andrew Albigese (as Moss)

in the SUNY-Fredonia production of High Plains Fandango

The State University of New York at Fredonia presented the premiere production of High Plains Fandango on Friday, February 24, 2012.  It was directed by Tom Louglin.

Jessica Drew-Cates (as Aquinas)

in the SUNY-Fredonia production of High Plains Fandango

Prior to its premiere at SUNY-Fredonia, Red Shuttleworth's High Plains Fandango received development and a reading from the Echo Theater Company of Los Angeles, directed by Ethan Phillips.

Ethan Phillips and Red Shuttleworth

during the development of High Plains Fandango

by the Echo Theater Company of Los Angeles

(Burbank, California, March 2011)

CAMPSITES OF GHOSTS: A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook

Campsites of Ghosts

poems

Red Shuttleworth

From the middle weeks of the Summer 2015 fire season in central Washington State, five Red Shuttleworth poems are presented in Campsites of Ghosts, a limited edition Bunchgrass Press chapbook.

The poems featured in this chapbook are:

Crescent of Blood Where We Expect the Moon

Canal Road Southeast of Adrian,

Washington... Four Miles at Sunset

Smoke Shadows at Eye Level

Unfinished Works at Smoke/Haze Sunset

and

Campsites of Ghosts

Red Shuttleworth

THE SEVENTH WAVE, A Red Shuttleworth One-Poem Chapbook

The Seventh Wave

a one-poem chapbook

Red Shuttleworth

The Seventh Wave, a poem first presented on this blog in 2011, slightly tinkered with, is presented by Bunchgrass Press as a limited edition chapbook.

On the Road, Milford to Ely....

Red Shuttleworth

ready for the next road trip....

RESIN-BLUE EVENING SKY... SUMMER: A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook

Resin-Blue Evening Sky... Summer

a one-poem chapbook by

Red Shuttleworth

With a first appearance on the blog Poet Red Shuttleworth, a five-part poem (under the influence of Samuel Beckett's pair of Eneug poems), Red Shuttleworth's Resin-Blue Evening Sky... Summer is presented in a limited edition chapbook from Bunchgrass Press.

Red Shuttleworth

(North of Mountain Home, Idaho, summer of 1999)

JACK'S PORCH, A Bunchgrass Press Chapbook Anthology

Jack's Porch

A Chapbook Anthology in Celebration of the Writing Life,  the Kerouac Project of Orlando,  and Kerouac House

The Poets of Jack's Porch:

Caitlin Doyle

Danielle Kessinger

John King

Ilyse Kusnetz

Susan Lilley

Cate McGowan

Summer Rodman

& Gypsy

Ciara Shuttleworth

Brian Turner

Jack's Porch is published in a small (150 copies) edition by Bunchgrass Press.  Copies are only available from one of the participating poets.

AMULET, A Red Shuttleworth Chapbook... The Complete Poem

Amulet

a one-poem chapbook by

Red Shuttleworth

Recently presented in sections on facebook, the poem Amulet, by Red Shuttleworth, is now issued in a limited edition chapbook by Bunchgrass Press.

Red Shuttleworth

TRAIL, A Chapbook Anthology from Bunchgrass Press

Trail

A Chapbook Anthology

Trail presents new writing from:

Chris Danowski

Dave Kelly

Terry Kinney

Adrian C. Louis

Red Shuttleworth

Trail is published in a limited edition (63 copies) by Bunchgrass Press and is only available from one of the contributing writers.

AN EXTRA BLUE MILE, A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook

  

An Extra Blue Mile

poems

Red Shuttleworth

Realizing that a preceding chapbook, Blue Book, ought to have also contained five other poems from the blue books project, Red Shuttleworth bundled them into a new chapbook, An Extra Blue Mile, issued in a very limited edition (29 copies) by Bunchgrass Press.

The poems in An Extra Blue Mile are:

Stay or Go

Ambulance on Highway #17

Nikolai Gogol

Mikhail Bulgakov

and

Sunlight-Scatter... Saturday

Red Shuttleworth

LANTERNS SEARCHING NIGHT: 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, A Red Shuttleworth Chapbook

Lanterns Searching Night

40th Anniversary Edition

poems 1971-1975

Red Shuttleworth

Long out-of-print, Red Shuttleworth's second poetry chapbook, Lanterns Searching Night, originally published in 1975 by Barry McKinnon's Caledonia Writing Series, at College of New Caledonia (Prince George, B.C., Canada), featured poems first published in Blackberry, Casaba, Confrontation, Dacotah Territory, Funge Art Centre Broadsheets (Ireland), The Honest Ulsterman (Ireland), North Country Anvil, Poet Lore, Poetry Now, and Road Apple Review.

Lanterns Searching Night, a 40th Anniversary Edition (with some reworking of a few poems by Red Shuttleworth), is now available in a limited edition from Bunchgrass Press.

The original 1975cover of Red Shuttleworth's

Lanterns Search Night

Included in the 40th Anniversary Edition of Red Shuttleworth's Lanterns Searching Night are the following poems:

Advice for 'Of the Half Moon'

Dag Hammarskjold Flies Over His Crucifixion Vision

What is Heard

Love

The Virgin Mother

Driftbird

Goodbye

A Poem Written in Paddy Devlin's Living Room....

Lanterns Searching Night

A Way to Travel

Who Wants a Marble Angel....

I Hope It's Only Practice

A Flower Breaks for Sunlight....

Cormorant

A Logging Truck Wrecks My Car....

Dead Lynx off a Trapline

and

A Prayer for Night

Bran Shuttleworth, Irish Wolfhound,

near MacKenzie, B.C., Canada,

Winter 1974-1975

GHOST WINDOW, A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook

Ghost Window

four poems

Red Shuttleworth

Ghost Window, a Red Shuttleworth chapbook published in a limited edition by Bunchgrass Press, presents four poems:

A Door is Going to Open

Lack of Grasp: Furnished Rooms... Weekly Rates

Platter of Almost-Sunrise

On Track

Red Shuttleworth

Barbara Brinson Curiel, DAYS OF THE DEAD, A Bunchgrass Press Chapbook

Days of the Dead

Barbara Brinson Curiel

Bunchgrass Press is proud to publish (in a limited edition) a new one-poem chapbook Barbara Brinson Curiel, Days of the Dead. 

Curiel's Mexican Jenny was the 2012 recipient of the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry... honored by Fresno State University with book publication by Anhinga Press in 2014.

Barbara Brinson Curiel

WHAT CAN WE MAKE OF THIS?: A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook

What Can We Make of This?

four poems

Red Shuttleworth

What Can We Make of This? is a four-poem Red Shuttleworth chapbook issued in a limited edition on fine paper by Bunchgrass Press.  The table of contents:

Revelations Saturday

As Months Merge

What Can We Make of This?

Shrub Desert.... Individuality

Red Shuttleworth

(March 24, 2015, photo by Kate Shuttleworth)