Thursday, April 23, 2015

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


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