The Poisoner's Garden and Others: Selected Poems

· Alkemara Press
Ebook
110
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Eligible

About this ebook

A Poisonous Flower, an Evil Doll, a Well of Memory and Dream


Award-winning author of supernatural and gothic fiction, Douglas Clegg gathers 22 of his poems for the first time ever into The Poisoner’s Garden & Others, ranging from those with a dark gothic edge to rhymes of whimsy with strange twists. Plus a Foreword and Afterword by the author.


Included in this Volume:


The Poisoner’s Garden


Why My Doll is Evil


The Salt of Undone Collars


Swimming in Underwear


Medea in Transit


My Younger Self


Toast to the Damned


Cenote of Dreams


October Wind


On All Hallow’s Eve


Song of Lupercalia


For St. Valentine’s Day


On the Ides of March


Birthday


Winter Solstice


The Christmas Smite


Elegy on a Dead Frog Found in Swimming Pool


At the Station in the Rain


Still Life


That Hardscrabble Life You’re In


Assam Tea


The Crime



About the author

Douglas Clegg is the award-winning author of more than 30 novels and collections, including Neverland, The Hour Before Dark, and Bad Karma. This is his first collection of poetry, though he's written it all his life. He currently lives with his husband of more than 30+ years on the New England coast, where he is writing more stories, novels, and poems.

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