Press Release (Entropy update)

We are pleased to announce that Estill Pollock's recent poetry collection, Entropy, published by Broadstone Books in 2021, is now listed in the UK through Blackwell's in Oxford. Previously, the title was available only through U.S./North American distribution. 

U.K. readers will now be able to order the book directly at:

https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Entropy-by-Estill-Pollock/9781937968922

The publisher has asked it to be noted that the distributor has erroneously listed the the title as hardback but it is in fact perfect bound.

Press Release

Broadstone Books (Broadstone Media LLC) is pleased to announce that Estill Pollock's latest poetry collection, Entropy, has been listed as a Recommended title on the latest SPD (Small Press Distribution) network in the United States.

Entropy

Entropy

We are pleased to announce the publication of Estill Pollock's latest poetry collection, Entropy, published in the United States by Broadstone Books in Kentucky. 

The book is available now through the publisher website at a discounted price, or through Amazon. In the UK, the book is available through Blackwell's (Oxford) online listing.

https://www.broadstonebooks.com/shop/p/entropy-poetry-by-estill-pollock

New Poems in 2020

In 2020, new poems are scheduled for publication in the English journals, The Dawntreader, Orbis, Reach and Sarasvati. The long poem, "Monster" is published in the New York journal, Projected Letters, which had previously published the poem sequence, "Water Harp" and the individual poems, "Ex Cathedra" and "Snake."

Press Release

Notification has been received from publishers Forward Poetry that the poem, "Asides to Walt Whitman, Where Brooklyn Ferry Intersects the Seventh Circle of Dante's Hell" is to be included in their new anthology of political poetry, Political Fortunes, scheduled for publication in March 2017.

On publication, copies of the anthology will be lodged with the British Library and other libraries in the UK and Republic of Ireland.

Further information will be available at www.forwardpoetry.co.uk.

Relic Environments Trilogy: Hail and Farewell

As with the final posting of poems in the Blackwater Quartet book cycle, I wanted to thank readers who have kept faith with the Relic Environments Trilogy series. 

In the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Ukraine, and in Asian countries as well, a small but faithful readership as been maintained, which I hope has brought these poems to the attention of the public more widely than was possible in the original publications (For information about these earlier editions, see the Introduction post.).

Further, the complete MS of the publisher's penultimate draft is made available through the link below. The MS is correct in most respects although without pagination, and although the draft here lists the collection as published in Kings Lynn, Norfolk by Biddles Ltd., in fact it was printed in Poland.

Here, too, are included the excellent, evocative drawings by Meredith T. Smith, set aside in earlier drafts but appearing here as in the published edition.

Again as with Blackwater Quartet, the work here can be sampled for personal or educational purposes, provided that the appropriate citations for author and publication copyright are made, as applicable.

Estill Pollock
Norfolk, England

Relic Environments Trilogy

Relic Environments Trilogy: Book III, Part 2.vi

from Book III, Part 2, Animus

Afterward: Into the Forest

Everything remembered

A catechism of blood rehearsed by open fires

Of itself… of itself

Time knotted thick as noose rope

The cottage window shimmers between worlds

What do you see

A path of thorns… there was always Death and Judgment

Three wishes, a shoe by a hearth, a task or journey

We save our pity for ourselves, our guises

And ferocity

A spell, a notation of otherness

Slips its lead, the changeling passing unnoticed through the room

Or we are rich, or we are lost

Or we are devoured, again and again, yet live

What is spoken was in the mind

Before the stories had names

These landscapes, rivers, creatures, everything recognised

Everything remembered

Into the forest, the path we took to meet ourselves

These others