THE EVIDENCE: A Three Poem Chapbook

The Evidence

A Three Poem Chapbook

Red Shuttleworth

As the immortal songwriter/singer Hoyt Axton once noted, A lot of people are walkin' round with tombstones in their eyes.  The funny thing is that Axton came up with that perception before Facebook appeared.

To what extent are we alive and to what portion are we just passing time?  Red Shuttleworth offers a (limited edition) chapbook to look at The Evidence.

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TURN YOUR RADIO: a Four Poem (Ghazals) Chapbook

Turn Your Radio

A Four Poem (Ghazals) Chapbook

by

Red Shuttleworth

Red Shuttleworth

Turn Your Radio, by Red Shuttleworth, is a limited edition chapbook from Bunchgrass Press. 

TBILISI AND VLADIVOSTOK: A Two-Poem Chapbook

Tbilisi

and

Vladivostok

a two poem chapbook

by

Red Shuttleworth

Presented on this blog earlier this year under the titles Tbilisi Novel and Vladivostok Novel, these Red Shuttleworth poems are now contained in a limited edition (19 copies) chapbook from Bunchgrass Press.  The chapbook has a couple of interior illustrations... and a significant typo on the cover.

GAZETTEER: A chapbook Anthology of New Writing

Gazetteer

 a limited edition
chapbook anthology

of new writing

Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick

Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick received her Masters in Fine Arts from Sarah Lawrence College in 2010.  She is the author of a chapbook, Manaquest.  She lives in West Texas.

Nuno Santos

Nuno Santos writes travel essays about America in English and translates British and American plays into Portuguese.  He attended New York University as a film student.  He lives in Cascais, Portugal.

Luke Shuttleworth

Luke Shuttleworth played baseball for a handful of schools: Coppin State University, Canada College, Dawson Community College, and Kansas Wesleyan University.  He was later a graduate student in the MFA Creative Writing Program at the University of Idaho.  His poems have appeared in Concho River Review, Minnetonka Review,  and other journals.

Red Shuttleworth

& Wolfie Shuttleworth

Red Shuttleworth is the author of three poetry books: Western Settings, Johnny Ringo, and Ghosts and Birthdays.  His poems appear in numerous journals.  

Ticket to Insomnia

Ticket to Insomnia

Before the birth of February, in the nation of Delay
and Crack-up, where folks hunker down hard
on 7-acre slots of knuckle-break volcanic rock,
snow-wind on sun-scorched front porch recliners,

why not plan a bike-ride summer (a thunderstorm-
June fantasia of rattlesnakes coiled on yellow lines)?
Why not buy a creaky can't-be-tuned black Fender
pawn shop guitar (Don't Leave Home Without It)?

Why not, this very night (to hell with summer),
gargle and gulp a schooner of mildewed moon juice
milked from ice fog a week ago.  You're eye-level
with an urn of pulverized bone... life's constituent minerals.


Note: Ticket to Insomnia, by Red Shuttleworth, has been issued as a limited edition (44 signed copies) poetry broadsheet (printed on 32-pound ivory antique laid paper) from Bunchgrass Press (Columbia Basin, WA).

No Resurrection from Cremains

No Resurrection from Cremains

What provision did you hold
for 900-crematorium-degrees...
or paper bundles of blood and biopsy results...
or friendship frail as thin cotton...
or radiation treatment anesthetics?
And then the drive through ice fog
without your friend... no more all-nighters
of poetry, imaginary secret star maps,
two-day-old steak sandwiches
sliced to shreds to share-out
in a stainless steel bowl.

Stainless steel hospital gurney,
Ezekial 37:3, in-fucking-deed,
when tumored bones crumble
and fold into one another.
Empty paw prints in last week's snow,
And no more rants
at pantywaist cocksucker
literati magazine editors...
no...  and there ain't no howling
at this Wolfhound moon...
no, not after the ol' two-syringe kill-trick...
Propofol and Euthanol.
So much for the beauty of rhyme.

You walk your friend's plastic-sacked
five-pounds of furnace-whitened
bone chips around the living room,
set them on his overstuffed leather chair,
on his dog bed, atop the TV cabinet,
walk Wolfie, off the leash, after Bulleit,
down his favorite night trail...
avoid the ready grave.
Professional weepers not needed...
this damned amateur is doing okay.

Red and Wolfie Shuttleworth

2008-2009

WINTER CHRONOGRAPH: The Chapbook

Winter Chronograph

poems

Red Shuttleworth

During the Winter of 2011-2012 Red Shuttleworth, attended by his Irish Wolfhound, Wolfie, wrote his 150+ Winter Chronograph sequence of poems.

The best of Winter Chronograph (33 poems selected by poet / painter Ciara Shuttleworth) is now available, in a limited edition of 44, as a chapbook.  Several of the poems have been revised.

Special thanks go to Cristen Hemingway Jaynes for first publishing "Winter Chronograph: 90" in chum, a literary journal.

If you would like a copy of Winter Chronograph, write or email Red Shuttleworth.

Wolfie Shuttleworth

(May 15, 2007 - January 4, 2013)

a participant in the writing

of Winter Chronograph