Palamedes Publishing: 7 books

50 classic poems reflowing in a modern medium. Originally published in black ink on white paper, 16 traditional poets have now been rendered digitally for e-readers. Poetry is the oldest and most flexible art form, and has migrated from performances to papyrus rolls to printed pages. Far from...

Thirteen Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories that send chills up the spine and create an atmosphere sure to make the reader turn on an extra light and push up the back of their armchair against the wall. Set amidst crumbling, ill-maintained churches and imposing cathedrals, on desolate coastland,...

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, written at the turn of the twentieth century, unmasks the veneer of civilization to reveal a savagery at the heart of the British Empire. It is eerily prophetic of the two world wars that would, in the coming decades, shake Europe to the core. The novella...

Poems that honestly explore a life, feeling their way through self-destruction, mental-health issues, addiction, and grief from the loss of a son. Shadow Work means taking a look at the parts of us we don't want to look at and reconciling ourselves for the better. The poems take the reader...

In this luminous first collection, Carlos Hiraldo knocks down the bland edifice of contemporary poetry and replaces it with real poems that resound and shock and illuminate. As Machu Picchu grows from the mountain, gathers itself stone by stone and bursts into the sky, so these poems take the stuff...

Soldiers haunt the short stories of D. H. Lawrence, gathered here in a single collection. Drawing on his personal experiences in World War I, Lawrence captures the way nineteenth century ideals were shattered by the "war to end all wars." Ideas of masculinity, duty, and nationalism were...

Manhattan is epic. And here's the poem to prove it. A narrative poem in traditional forms, Manhattan tells the archetypal New York story of a stranger arriving on shores of a new world. A book twenty-one years in the making, this tale of loss and wonder takes place over four days in 1995/96...