"Lamaštû: Poems for the Anti-Mother" at Amazon.

Lamaštû: Poems for the Anti-Mother is now on sale at UK Amazon at this link. It is also available from US Amazon. See the post below for further details.

This is the latest book in McLean's series about aspects of goddess, & Lamaštû is, together with Maa Kali & Tiamat, one of the three aspects that he regards as most primal. The next will probably be about Tiamat. As always there is a lengthy prose introduction before the poems.

The depiction of Lamaštû in popular fiction & films for the great unwashed is as offensive as the scurrilous lies told about Lilītu by the devotees of the patriarchal "gods".

But Lamaštû is a primal Mesopotamian goddess who was seen as being tasked with curbing human hubris. McLean sees Her as the form of Dark Mother most suited to the modern age, when population needs to be controlled & humanism & human narcissism need to be stamped out.

Lamaštû: Poems for the Anti-Mother

Here is Lamaštû: Poems for the Anti-Mother, my new book in the series about various aspects of goddess, Dark Mother, Kali Maa, &  this volume is about Lamaštû. It is available direct from Lulu at this link, & will be available from Amazon & other corporate whores soon enough. Blurb & cover follow, as is my wont.

Edit: I have received & approved the proof for this today the 29th of January. It will be available from Amazon etc soon enough. It looks good.

This is the latest book in McLean's series about aspects of goddess, & Lamaštû is, together with Maa Kali & Tiamat, one of the three aspects that he regards as most primal. The next will probably be about Tiamat. As always there is a lengthy prose introduction before the poems.

The depiction of Lamaštû in popular fiction & films for the great unwashed is as offensive as the scurrilous lies told about Lilītu by the devotees of the patriarchal "gods".

But Lamaštû is a primal Mesopotamian goddess who was seen as being tasked with curbing human hubris. McLean sees Her as the form of Dark Mother most suited to the modern age, when population needs to be controlled & humanism & human narcissism need to be stamped out.

 

 

Samples from "skulls & dust"

EDIT. This book is now approved for sale and is available at this link. It is now also on Amazon UK & at this link. On US Amazon is is here at this link.

Here samples from fortchcoming skulls & dust, for Linnet with massive gratitude for saving me, due on the 29th of this month. The blurb follows, a trifle frivolous, & cover comes first. 

This book marks the return of Emma to the poems. The book that I am writing now, everything essential, though not part of the Emma series sensu strictissimo, completes her return as my perfect muse, the one that first made me become beast, the fire that is my intensity, the source of the mysticism in the writing now, & the poems about her are mixed in with the nature poetry of the first two books. My intention for the future is to integrate the two threads - to write the poems about nature, the trees, the ghosts here, Somerset, & the goddess, who is here as She is everywhere, but to combine these with the theme of Emma, since Emma is the one that made me beast meat & intensity, madness & animal; she is the one that created me.

This is the second collection of poems written by McLean since his return to the UK this year. It writes of how the goddess is to be seen present in the nature of Somerset. This is a book about flesh & intensity, the fire inside. Some parts are protective magic, & McLean also has issues with the ghost that has always accompanied him, but they are ultimately reconciled.

 

Samples from "goddess gives sun enough"

EDIT: This book is now on sale here at Lulu, Amazon too. This link is to UK Amazon. This link is to US amazon.com.

I have a new book of poems forthcoming soon, the first since moving to the UK, which will be available for sale once I have seen the proof. By me, David C. McLean, from Posthuman Poetry & Prose, goddess gives sun enough. Five samples & cover below. I shall update this post once I have seen the physical cover & made the book available for sale. 

Blurb follows, then cover:

This book is the first written since McLean returned to England in 2022 , & follows a series of books of love poetry. As such, it shows an attempt to reorient to a life that is meaningful because of earth, nature, beast, & goddess, without any focus for the sexuality with which the flesh, as such, is instinct, & without any sense of social connection. The intensity differs thereby in its focus, though some themes are retained. These are poems about living on, & trusting in the goddess to give the fire & the words one needs to live & feel.