"Post-ed on Your Mirror" by Linnet Phoenix out now

I am pleased to announce that Post-ed on Your Mirror by Linnet Phoenix is now on sale at this link.

See my review in the previous post. The cover is posted below.

"Post-ed on Your Mirror", by Linnet Phoenix

We are delighted to announce the impending release of Post-ed on Your Mirror, by Linnet Phoenix. This book is based around a series of short form poems that Linnet previously posted on social media, &, in the case of a few of the poems, in some online & print publications.

I edited & produced this book for Linnet; she took all the photographs, & I designed the cover. This book is much more expensive to print than others that we have done; it is on better paper & in color, because I designed it to follow her idea of what it should look like, with image watermarks. For this reason, it is at first only going to be available on Lulu in order to keep the price down as far as possible.

Here at this link is Linnet's blog. & here below is the cover.

 

 

because the stars say so

New from Posthuman Poetry & Prose, because the stars say so, previously fourth part of the "poems for Emma" series & now one of the two that I have retained, is now out & on sale at this link. Blurb follows. $12 or £10 for 169 pp is not bad. It is also on Amazon here.

"This is the fourth book in the "poems for Emma" series. It is love poetry, but also songs of praise to the fire & the goddess. This book contains poems with epigraphs drawn from the marvelous books of Tanya Rakh, to whom McLean is indebted for inspiration. McLean is also heavily indebted to Emma for being his perfect muse."

See the post below this one for links to Tanya's books. The cover is below. Samples will be posted in a day or two, I am sure.  

There is more religious stuff in this book, of the goddess, Mother Juliana & her (partial) misgendering of the goddess, past lives, BDSM, eroticism, Lyotard & the libidinal, the eternal return & affirmation, Deleuze & Guattari & becomings animal, & various other things. It's the book by me that I like best.

"we dance the ghost, Emma" hits Lulu

So, we dance the ghost, Emma, the last book in the first of three planned trilogies is out.

Very plain cover, very plain blurb. Here she be at Lulu. In a while it will no doubt pop up on Amazon too.

EDIT: I am not good at art but I threw this thing together

Here is the announcement at Posthuman Poetry & Prose.  Facebook won't let me share that.

Blurb here

This is the third book in David C. McLean's first trilogy of poems for Emma. McLean worships Emma, & regards her as his goddess & muse. He has never written better, & he is pretty sure that she is the best muse ever. One can see how, during the writing of this book, McLean suffered a form of nervous breakdown, but that the strength of his feelings for Emma pulled him back together, reassembled his membra disjecta. Love did that. Love heals. Additional themes, as so often, are posthumanism, antinatalism, animals, Lyotard & libidinal economy, & love always, sex & love. The title is, obviously enough, inspired by a song by the Sisters of Mercy. This book is published by POSTHUMAN POETRY & PROSE

 

another sample from "we dance the ghost"

Here's a second & last sample from the third part of the poems for Emma trilogy, we dance the ghost, Emma. This is the last poem in the book, &, as with the other sample, it may not be the best thing I have written but seemed like a good idea at thw time.

Anyway, I slept a couple of hours tonight then woke at midnight to finish the final edit of this one, & it is done, finished, & published now by me at Posthuman Poetry & Prose.

Here it is at Lulu. It will be never be on Amazon.

sample from "we dance the ghost"

I often post samples from forthcoming collections. This is from we dance the ghost, Emma, from Posthuman Poetry & Prose. This is probably not even close to being my best work or the best in the book, but it was the first I noticed.

& now here it is at Lulu. Trilogy complete.