FENCE TO CHECK, A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook

Fence to Check

four poems

Red Shuttleworth

Red Shuttleworth's Fence to Check, a chapbook with four poems, is published in a limited edition by Bunchgrass Press.  

Uncollected prior to this chapbook, the poems presented are from 2011:

To Find a Way

Tell us Then

That Place Where

On Cognition

Red Shuttleworth's Woe to the Land Shadowing (Blue Horse Press) received the 2016 Western Heritage (Wrangler) Award for Outstanding Poetry Book from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.

Don Edwards, Luke Shuttleworth, Red Shuttleworth,

and Waddie Mitchell (Wrangler Awards,

National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum,

Oklahoma City, April 16, 2016)

Red Shuttleworth's next full book of poetry, Straight Ahead, will be published in January 2017 by Blue Horse Press.

Red Shuttleworth

Shuttleworth is a three-time winner of the (Western Writers of America) Spur Award for Poetry.  In 2007 True West magazine named Shuttleworth "Best Living Western Poet."

ON A SUNDAY NIGHT BEFORE AN ELECTION, A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook

On a Sunday Night

Before an Election

a one-poem chapbook by

Red Shuttleworth

On a Sunday Night Before an Election is a Red Shuttleworth one-poem chapbook presented by Bunchgrass Press in a limited edition of 32 copies.  The poem is from Red Shuttleworth's in-progress, late-year project, Gold Rock Notebook.

This chapbook poem gives attention to Red Shuttleworth's maternal grandfather, Serge Moiseevich Odnovalenko (1901-1992). 

Odnovalenko (or Valenko as he named himself in America) was predisposed to abrupt violence.  Other Russian immigrants in San Francisco (1923-1975) feared him, gave him a wide berth.  His first wife called him, without affection, "Tatar," "Cossack," and "Mongol."  He ate salted steak and eggs for breakfast every morning, drank a bottle of booze daily, and lived to be at least ninety-one.

   Serge Odnovalenko, 1930's

EARLY NOVEMBER GHAZAL, A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook

Early November Ghazal

a one-poem chapbook by

Red Shuttleworth

Published by Bunchgrass Press in a limited (42-copies) edition, Red Shuttleworth's Early November Ghazal is a one-poem chapbook. The poem is from Shuttleworth's in-progress late-year project, the Gold Rock Notebook.

Red Shuttleworth's Woe to the Land Shadowing (Blue Horse Press) received the 2016 Western Heritage (Wrangler) Award for Outstanding Poetry Book from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.

Red Shuttleworth

Shuttleworth is a three-time winner of the (Western Writers of America) Spur Award for Poetry. In 2007, True West magazine named Shuttleworth "Best Living Western Poet."