Backlash Press: 5 books

Michael Tyrell poems have appeared in many publications, including Agni, The Best American Poetry 2015, The Iowa Review, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Verse Daily, and The Yale Review. His first collection, The Wanted, appeared in 2012 from the National Poetry...

Joseph V Milford is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and a professor of poetry. His work has been featured in numerous reputable journals. This is his second collection and describes using prose poetry one man’s descent into purgatory after a divorce. It is an epic poem that takes place in Moreland,...

The Life in the Sky Comes Down is a book that looks at teaching at New York University while the Twin Towers fell; at Lisa de Kooning riding a horse as the police followed closely behind her; at working in a theatre company directed by Edward Albee; and at love between men in a time when that love is...

A particle of dirt transforms into a pearl with the ability to seed an entirely new planet. What happens when a clairvoyant, a mutant poet and a shape shifter discover its power? And how do they stop an evil prophet from planting it first? In a futuristic, yet recognizable Britain, the Transformation...

If there’s one thing I can always count on, it’s that Clifford Brooks carries the fire. There’s a manic passion in his work, and from what I’ve seen of him over the years, you’ll find the same in his life, his every day a pool of gasoline waiting for the match, and it’s hard not to feel that...