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Bone Ink
'These vivid poems meld wild energy with meticulous crafting. They trace the tactile, the remembered and the sensuous, tracking young lives as they unfold under a 'deadpan sky'. With their exquisite music, fresh and startling images, they are variously evocative, mournful and vibrant. They witness the gritty, the violent and the intense with unflinching focus, probing atonement and resolution as their histories rise and subside. This is an exceptionally assured and original debut' -- Felicity Plunkett 'Urban, decadent, dystopian; in Rico Craig's Western Suburbs there are many countries, caliphates, Terracotta warriors and Arctic shelves. With 'the taste of a derelict future', his working class songs and spells have a political consciousness that is unafraid to be mythopoetic. Bone Ink is a fine debut from a poet to watch, whose work has already crossed national borders' -- Michelle Cahill
Our Tongues Are Songs
In Our Tongues Are Songs, Rico Craig pursues the intimate, the voices people use as they speak to their private fears. Craig brings his unique ear for lyricism, his eye for human need, to bear on the promises people make to themselves as they attempt to find solace, companionship and meaning. His haunting use of image fills the day-to-day world with the uncanny - bats are comforted by children, old women weep tattoos, the earth burns, television stars comfort teenagers as they struggle with anorexia, encroaching sands spill the dead into an unnamed city. This book spans voices, generations and countries; it sides with the young and old as they try to carve their humanity from the swirls of despair.
Concrete
Kevin life began on the notorious streets of Chicago Illinois where he experienced at a young age the horrors of the world in one of it's purest form. After witnessing his childhood best friends lose his life in a drive-by shooting on the playground, Kevin's life and the way he viewed the world would never be the same even after moving away from the gang infested street of Chicago, Kevin and his brothers found themselves down South in a neighborhood known as Orange Mound in the midst of drugs, gangs, and murders. Quickly they learned up North or down South, when it rained, bloodstains appeared on the concrete.
Nekhau
These are poems of love and loss, they imagine a world where hawks fly from the arms of lovers and disappear into a dying world, where golden fish rise from rivers and tangle themselves in hair, where molecules and mist carry messages of love through cites. In this collection, beginnings and endings slice across each other, modern and mythic intertwine, the everyday is stirred into a world of metaphor and incantation. Individual poems chime off each other, creating strands of narrative which circle the collection's central symbol, the nekhau - small fish-shaped amulets crafted by ancient Egyptians and plaited through the hair of loved ones to ward off drowning. In a contemporary and at times...
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Tincture Journal Issue Sixteen (Summer 2016)
Tincture Journal is a quarterly literary journal based in Brisbane, Australia and collecting interesting new works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction from Australia and the world.
Five:2:One 19
The 19th print issue is jam-packed with weird babies and normies like CL Bledsoe, Teresa De La Cruz, Michael Diaz Fieto, David Eingorn, Anne Gorrick, Jessica Lee, Antonio Lopez, Nicole Mason, Moira J., Isobel O'Hare, Charlie O'Hay. Dean Rhetoric, Rico Craig, Hannah Rego Anna Keeler Samantha Pilecki, Stephen Wack, Nod Ghosh, Darrin Doyle, David Vardeman, Robert, Feeney. Also featuring the LitStyle features an interview w/ poet Bill Lessard conducted by our LitStyle Editor Kenning JP García, and a review of Joanna C. Valente's book by Paul S. Rowe. Cover art by Amy Guidry!
Tincture Journal Issue Eleven (Spring 2015)
Tincture Journal is a quarterly literary journal based in Sydney, Australia and collecting interesting new works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction from Australia and the world.
