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Now Available: Nectar by Lisa Bellamy

2011 Encircle Publications Chapbook Contest Winner

Lisa Bellamy's poetry dazzles with its clarity and humanness; its language is just hip enough to comfortably blast down urban streets under the arms of youthful scenesters, yet Zen-like with a transcendental prowess. Here Bellamy dispenses enough world-worn wisdom to make the Buddha blush—and images lovely enough to make any haiku practitioner awestruck.

24 pages of poetry; perfect-bound with glossy color cover and fine endpapers.

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Maine Taproot

Maine Taproot: An Anthology of Verse (Maine Poets Society): Finalist in 2011 Maine Literary Awards, Anthology Category

Karen M. Baldacci, former First Lady of Maine writes: "Thank you to the Maine Poets Society for sharing with us the insightful work of 53 of Maine's Poets. Our Poets challenge us to question, examine, reflect, and find meaning to our complicated lives."

127 pages of poetry by Maine Poets Society members. 6x9; glossy softcover.

ISBN 13: 978-1-893035-10-2. Editors: Margaret Rockwell Finch (Editor-in-Chief); Janet Favor, David Fowler; Anne W. Hammond; Jim Todd.

All proceeds go to Maine Poets Society. $17.95 cover price; price here includes $3 shpping/handling per book. (For member-discounted copies: Contact Margaret Rockwell Finch, Editor-in-Chief, at 207-443-2975)

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Two poetry books from Encircle released in 2011

by Marta Rijn Finch & Margaret Rockwell Finch,

Co-Presidents of Maine Poets Society

A Solitary Piper

Poems

by Marta Rijn Finch

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A Solitary Piper is a mixture of poetic forms—sonnets, villanelles, couplets, a few limericks, and even a terza rima—reflecting Marta's sensitive views of life and love in the New England countryside.

Marta is an award-winning poet, with three previous book publications of translations from the French.

Released April, 2011

$14.95 including shipping.

Sonnets from Seventy-Five Years

by

Margaret Rockwell Finch

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Sonnets from Seventy-Five Years traces a long life story through changes in poetic techniques—not only due to age and practice but to influences and occurances. Alterations in vocabulary, sklll, interests, mood and perception transmute into a mini-autobiography in sonnet form—from one of the first to one of the latest.

Now ninety, Maggie has been composing poetry since 1925. An award-winning poet, she brought out her first book, Davy's Lake, in 1996.

Released April, 2011

$14.95 including shipping.