Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books forthcoming in November 2025 from CLMP members.
The Disinherited by Terrence Arjoon
Ugly Duckling Presse | November 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-946604-39-2
In Arjoon’s debut poetry collection, “various characters people the text, from historical personages to actors in hastily paper-mache’d masks, each peeking onto stage from the wings.”
Unburying the Bones by Victoria Buitron
TRP: The University Press of SHSU | November 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-68003-446-2
The poems in this collection “bring to the fore pain made corporeal, the roots of misogyny, femicide, and the depths of matrilineality.”
Open House: Conversations with Writers About Community by Kristina Marie Darling
Tupelo Press | November 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961209-37-4
This anthology of essays featuring Traci Brimhall, Chris Campanioni, Wendy Chen, Ming Lauren Holden, and more “offers a practical guide to building community, fostering collaboration, and inspiring generosity through the creative arts.”
Jombii Jamborii by Joan Cambridge-Mayfield and Jeremy Jacob Peretz
Translated from the Creolese by Joan Cambridge-Mayfield and Jeremy Jacob Peretz
Ugly Duckling Presse | November 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-946604-46-0
The poems in this chapbook “cavort together back and forth in both Creolese and English, mirroring multigenerational movement and song bridging worlds of ancestors, young, old, and those yet to be born or remembered.”
Earthly Love 2.0: Stories of Intimacy and Devotion from Orion Magazine
Orion | November 1, 2025
ISBN: 9789533515342
Orion‘s second anthology of “poetry and prose that illuminate the nature of love in the Anthropocene” includes a new foreword by Erica Berry and additional work by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Ross Gay, Louise Glück, Mary Oliver, and more.
Or Current Resident by Thomas Fink
Marsh Hawk Press | November 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64605-411-4
In this collection, Fink “delivers a linguistic treasure trove full of unbridled humor and subtle social commentary in poems with intricate visual configurations.”
Ways to Move: Black Insurgent Grammars by Jonathan González
Ugly Duckling Presse | November 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-946604-38-5
“Moving between archival fragments, rehearsal notes, and speculative memory,” this hybrid book “traces the embodied frequencies and assembled states of Black life.”
Dear Enheduanna, by Erin Honeycutt
Ugly Duckling Presse | November 1, 2025
According to LA Warman, this poetry chapbook is an “erotic romp through language and lesbian history.”
These Aren’t My Woods Anymore by Soon Jones
Poetose | November 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64672-365-2
Jones’s debut poetry collection “captures the experience of living as a mixed-race, queer, Asian American from the rural South.”
A Door, a Window by Burt Kimmelman
Marsh Hawk Press | November 1, 2025
ISBN: 9798990249004
According to Eric Hoffman, Kimmelman’s poems “attest to the simple majesties of being, the massive implications of the everyday.”
Red Lip Peril by Dalmacia Ruiz-Rosas Samohod
Translated from the Spanish by Judah Rubin
Ugly Duckling Presse | November 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-946604-47-7
This new translation “brings Peruvian poet Dalmacia Ruiz-Rosas’s searing, corporeal, political poems of the 1970s and 1980s into English for the first time.”
SMALLTOWNNOVELLA by Ronald M. Schernikau
Translated from the German by Lucy Jones
Ugly Duckling Presse | November 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-946604-41-5
“A previously-untranslated classic of the queer canon,” this novella “follows b, a teenaged, working-class communist who falls in love with leif, a popular jock.”
4 by Stefanovski and a 1 act by Goran Stefanovski
Translated from the Macedonian by Patricia Marsh-Stefanovska
Laertes | November 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-942281-36-8
According to Goce Smilevsk, Stefanovski’s drama “diagnoses the black hole of our time—the collective amnesia born out of the loss of one’s own story and the lack of interest in the story of the Other.”
Ugly Duckling Presse | November 1, 2025
Consisting of poems “about time and discovery/re-discovery,” this collection “comes from a place of urgency that emerges from a sustained and desperate need to organize the chaos of experience through language.”
Nothing But Time: Conversations with Peter Mettler on Life and Cinema by José Teodoro
Anvil Press | November 3, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-77214-253-2
According to Atom Egoyan, this book of conversations between Teodoro and filmmaker Peter Mettler is “a unique cinematic/literary achievement, combining the two forms with a fascinatingly harnessed alchemy.”
False War by Carlos Manuel Álvarez
Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
Graywolf Press | November 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64445-363-6
The characters in this multivoiced novel “are ambivalent castaways living lives of deep estrangement from their home country, stranded in an existential no-man’s land.”
Akashic Books | November 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63614-271-5
This collection is an “illuminating selection of photographs spanning iconic punk rock guitarist Brian Baker’s many years of global touring with Bad Religion, Dag Nasty, and other bands.”
Akashic Books | November 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63614-269-2
In this memoir, a “founder of the iconic band Faith No More shares his coming-of-age and out-of-the-closet story in pre-tech boom San Francisco.”
My Heart Is Good: Treaty Rights and the Rise of a S’Klallam Fishing Community by Ron Charles with Josh Wisniewski
Empty Bowl Press | November 4, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-991740-05-0
Told through the life story of Port Gamble S’Klallam elder Ron Charles, this book “makes an original contribution to the growing body of treaty-rights literature, Salish Sea history, and Native American oral history.”
There Is Always a Volcano Before You by Christine Colasurdo
The Poetry Box | November 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-968610-06-7
In this posthumously released poetry collection, Colasurdo invites the reader to “share in her treasured memories of growing up in the 70s spending summers at Spirit Lake on the north side of Mount St. Helens, as well as the year she spent working at Harmony Falls Lodge.”
Till Taught By Pain by Susan Coventry
Regal House Publishing | November 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64603-632-5
According to Rilla Askew, this historical novel following William Steward Halsted and his wife is a “true-to-life love story that illuminates an intriguing woman’s life, the life of her brilliant physician husband, and the wretched secret they share.”
Earthly: Selected Poems by Jean Follain
Translated from the French by Andrew Seguin
The Song Cave | November 4, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9912988-5-8
In this collection featuring previously untranslated work, Follain’s poems “feel timely, as the ravages of our human-centric worldview upon plants and animals mount toward irreversibility, and as war unfolds where it has so many times before.”
[Th]ings and [Th]oughts by Alla Gorbunova
Translated from the Russian by Elina Alter
Deep Vellum | November 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64605-403-9
According to Publishers Weekly, Gorbunova’s fairy tale-inspired short stories “evoke the absurdity of everyday life in post-Soviet Russia.”
Timber & Lụa by Lily Hoàng and Vi Khi Nào
Translated from the Vietnamese by Lily Hoàng and Vi Khi Nào
Red Hen Press | November 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63628-431-6
In these ten experimental short stories, Hoàng and Nào “graft the genetic material of one language (English) and the genetic material of another language (Vietnamese) to produce a new literary diasporic genre.”
Praisesong for the People: Poems from the Heart and Soul of Texas
Host Publications | November 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-7376050-9-6
Edited by Amanda Johnston, this anthology celebrating Texas features poems that “gather in a heartfelt chorus to praise the people in their communities who offer small kindnesses, asking nothing in return.”
Natural History by Brandon Kilbourne
Graywolf Press | November 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64445-367-4
In this collection, research biologist Kilbourne “illuminates the intersections between science and poetry in poems that demonstrate the wonder, curiosity, and precision required by both disciplines.”
Bitter Over Sweet by Melissa Llanes Brownlee
Santa Fe Writers Project | November 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-951631-51-2
The short stories in this collection follow native Hawaiian women who are “living and struggling against abuse and despair in a world controlled by tourism’s long tail.”
The Conversions by Harry Mathews
Deep Vellum | November 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-62897-630-4
According to Foreword Reviews, this novel is a “literary puzzle that questions the nature and meaning of the holy grail as a literary convention, a historical ritual, and the legitimizing force behind kingly power.”
A Complete Fiction by R. L. Maizes
Ig Publishing | November 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1632462114
According to Laurie Frankel, this novel is “timely and topical, brimming with flawed characters trying to be good, complex situations with no right answers, and tangled threads that only get knottier as you turn the pages.”
The Danube Empire: An Environmental History of Habsburg State Building and Civic Engagement by Robert Shields Mevissen
University of Pittsburgh Press | November 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-0-8229-6779-8
“Taking a unique environmental perspective to explore questions of transnational solidarity and identity,” this book “argues that the Danube River served as both a catalyst and a tool for institution building.”
Our Best War Stories: Prize-winning Poetry & Prose from the Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Awards
Middle West Press | November 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-953665-36-2
Edited by Christopher Lyke, this anthology is the second volume collecting prose and poetry from Line of Advance’s Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Writing Awards and serves “to highlight some of the best contemporary voices writing about modern wars—from Vietnam, to Iraq and Afghanistan.”
The Competition of Unfinished Stories by Sener Ozmen
Translated from the Kurmancî Kurdish by Nicholas Glastonbury
Sandorf Passage | November 4, 2025
ISBN: 9789533515342
In this novel set in Turkish-occupied Kurdistan, “Sertac, a vehement atheist, teaches theology classes at an Islamic school as he attempts to complete the stories he starts writing.”
The Year of the Wind by Karina Pacheco Medrano
Translated from the Spanish by Mara Faye Lethem
Graywolf Press | November 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64445-365-0
In this novel, a Peruvian writer in Spain is “pulled back into her nation’s fraught history after a fleeting encounter with a woman who is a doppelgänger of Bárbara, a cousin lost to time.”
LittlePuss Press | November 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-964322-08-7
Edited by Mirha-Soleil Ross, this book revealing “the secret history of contemporary transgender culture” features all four issues of the 1990s zine Gendertrash From Hell as well as previously unseen drafts from the unfinished fifth issue and essays by Trish Salah and Leah Tigers.
The Jersey Slide by Danny Shot
CavanKerry Press | November 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-960327-14-7
This poetry collection is a “pugnacious, colloquial, irreverent, and unapologetically Jersey meditation on friendship, family, aging, and gentrification.”
An Eye For Joy: Noticing the Good World Everywhere by Peg Guilfoyle
Sea Crow Press | November 5, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961864-39-9
According to Victoria Safford, “this book is a bracing, bright reminder that to pay attention is a life-saving spiritual practice, and anyone can do it.”
Across the Acheron by Monique Wittig
Translated from the French by David Le Vay with Margaret Crosland
Winter Editions | November 5, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-959708-17-9
In this novel originally published in 1985, Wittig “restages the journey through the circles of hell, limbo, and paradise from a lesbian feminist perspective.”
The Lesbian Body by Monique Wittig
Translated from the French by David Le Vay
Winter Editions | November 5, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-959708-16-2
In this hybrid work, Wittig “celebrates the body—lesbian, literary and defiantly political—and challenges the order of heterosexuality in literature.”
Anthem of Evaporated Tears / El deber del pan by Xavier Valcárcel de Jesús
Translated from the Spanish by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
Cardboard House Press | November 6, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-945720-39-0
This poetry collection inspired by Virgil’s Aenid “turns to face the violence at the heart of domesticity and gender, which is reconfigured by the poetic voice and his mother.”
Forced by Circumstance by Norma Alarcón
Aunt Lute Books | November 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-951874-10-0
This collection “gathers in one volume foundational essays by and interviews with one of the most highly esteemed intellectuals in Chicana/o, Latina/o, and Feminist Studies.”
Airlie Press | November 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-950404-17-9
This archive-based book-length poem “examines the ‘real’ and imagined history of Riverside, California’s Chinatown, juxtaposed with a speculative shiny city of the global future.”
They Never Left Me: A Holocaust Memoir of Maternal Courage and Triumph by Evelyn Kahn with Hodie Kahn
Ronsdale Press | November 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-55380-732-2
This memoir tells the story of “nine-year-old Evelyn’s survival through the determination and bravery of her mother and grandmother as they hid in the dense forests of Belarus.”
Scenes From the Planet Earth by Joseph D. Reich
Sagging Meniscus | November 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-963846-50-8
This book-length poem is “playfully structured with many subdivisions and digressions,” and is “as topically pertinent and personal as it is universal and timeless.”
The End of Welcome by Nicole Alston Zdeb
Airlie Press | November 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-950404-18-6
The poems in this collection “travel underground and underwater through intimate landscapes to mysteriously surface in the universal.”
4 by Malpede plus an Intervention by Karen Malpede
Laertes | November 8, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-942281-45-0
According to Marvin Carlson, these four plays “seek to bring us to our senses, intellectually, morally, and socially.”
Come Again No More by David Wesley Williams
JackLeg Press | November 10, 2025
ISBN: 978-1956907193
According to Bryan Denson, this novel is “so lyrical and lovingly drawn—and spit-take funny—that the ghost of William Faulkner might just throw rocks at his best work.”
Let the Moon Wobble by Ally Ang
Alice James Books | November 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949944-88-4
According to Chen Chen, in this collection Ang “refuses the deadening distances of capital, borders, and patriarchy, embracing instead the richest, queerest intimacies of uncouth body, kinky breath, and collective revolt.”
The Queen of Swords by Jazmina Barrera
Translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney
Two Lines Press | November 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949641-87-5
This biography of Mexican writer Elena Garro is a “portrait of a woman that also serves as an alternative history of Mexico City; a cry-out for justice; and an homage to the unknowable.”
Translated from the Polish by Mark Ordon
Deep Vellum | November 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-960385-47-5
In this book about the Indian city Auroville, Boni “journeys deep into this unique community, uncovering stories of hope, disillusionment, and resilience.”
Tales from Manila Ave. by Patrick Joseph Caoile
Sundress Publications | November 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-951979-84-3
In Caoile’s debut short fiction collection, “tenants gather to swap meals and stories, workers strive to prove their worth, sons and daughters revisit their relationships with faith, patriotism, and their own parents.”
Dickie Does America by Pieter de Poortere
Catalyst Press | November 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-963511-12-3
This satirical comic strip follows “Dickie, a Belgian yokel with good intentions but dubious critical thinking skills, navigating a modern world with inadequate emotional intelligence.”
The Week of Colors by Elena Garro
Translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell
Two Lines Press | November 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949641-89-9
In this short story collection containing “the early roots of magical realism, feminist horror, and anticolonial speculative fiction,” Garro “highlights the violence in our history, our homes, and our hearts, in vivid color.”
The Last of Its Kind by Sibylle Grimbert
Translated from the French by Aleshia Jensen
Book*hug Press | November 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-77166-955-9
In this historical novel, a “curious researcher pulls a single wounded bird from the water, unaware that he has recovered what will eventually be the last of its kind.”
Growing Papaya Trees: Nurturing Indigenous Roots During Climate Displacement by Jessica Hernandez
North Atlantic Books | November 11, 2025
ISBN: 9798889840978
In this book, Hernandez “offers readers an Indigenous, Global-South lens on the climate crisis, delivering a compelling and urgent exploration of its causes—and its costs.”
Diplomat In The Kitchen by Jeremiah Knight
Catalyst Press | November 11, 2025
ISBN: 979-8218518363
This cookbook is “a culinary journey that transports you across continents, celebrating both the authenticity of beloved dishes and the exciting fusions that give them new life.”
The Last House Before the Sea by Gabi Martínez
Translated from the Spanish by Ezra E. Fitz
Restless Books | November 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63206-403-5
In this “magnificent account of a year lived on Buda, a rural island in northern Spain,” Martínez “contemplates sprawling coastal marshes, flocks of nesting seabirds, and a relentless Atlantic horizon.”
Elegies of the Earth: Selected Poems by Ahmad Shamlou
Translated from the Persian by Niloufar Talebi
World Poetry Books | November 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-954218-39-0
According to Paisley Rekdal, these “formally inventive, gorgeous poems introduce English readers to a vital Iranian poet, one whose courageous poems remain as relevant today as to twentieth-century Iran.”
Dzanc Books | November 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-938603-15-0
According to S. A. Cosby, in this crime novel Tromblay “has created a violent and wistful elegy to small-town America that cuts as sharp as an ice pick and goes twice as deep.”
At the Edge: Selected Political Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva
Translated from the Russian by Margaree Little
Green Linden Press | November 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961834-08-8
According to Julia Nemirovskaya, the poems in this collection “don’t just reflect history; they confront it, denounce its brutality, and expose the militarism, cowardice, betrayal, and moral failure of democracies.”
Resonant Blue and Other Stories by Mary Vensel White
Type Eighteen Books | November 11, 2025
ISBN: 979-8992040579
This short story collection explores “how we can endure and overcome our personal histories, better understand our ancestral ones, and accept the unknown future ahead.”
Restless Books | November 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63206-409-7
“What begins as a scary almost-accident turns into a road-trip adventure, and then a lasting friendship between a truck driver and the moose who joins him for a ride” in this picture book.
Ghosts of Distant Trees by Erica Watson
Porphyry Press | November 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-7367558-5-3
In this essay collection, Watson “traces the layered ecologies of Denali National Park, Alaska—its vast and shifting landscape, seasonal labor rhythms, and the subtle politics of inhabitation.”
Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike by John Wieners
The Song Cave | November 11, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9912988-7-2
This fiftieth-anniversary edition of Wieners’s poetry collection—now available in print for the first time since most copies were destroyed in an arson fire in 1982—features new afterwords by his friend and scholar James Dunn and Wieners’s biographer Robert Dewhurst.
Translated from the Chinese by Dong Li
Deep Vellum | November 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64605-405-3
Ye’s first full-length collection features “beautifully resonant metaphysical poems from a singular voice in contemporary Chinese poetry.”
Vine Leaves Press | November 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-3-98832-178-7
In this novel, “Johnny Demos knows he must leave behind his close-knit family and their small-town Greek restaurant if he wants to pursue his dream of becoming an actor in New York.”
The Cavalier by Nathalie Quintane
Translated from the French by Jonathan Larson
Winter Editions | November 12, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-959708-15-5
According to Ryan Ruby, this hybrid work follows the “excavation of the radical political and cultural energies that have been systematically snuffed out during the unending counter-revolution that followed May ’68.”
Smoke Drifts: Selected Poems by Nadia Anjuman
Translated from the Persian by Diana Arterian and Marina Omar
World Poetry Books | November 13, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-954218-38-3
In these poems, Anjuman draws on “the lineage of Persian and Sufi writing and her life under Taliban rule, attending to love, oppression, myth, and devotion.”
#evolutionarypoems by Mihret Kebede
Translated from the Amharic by Mihret Kebede and Anna Moschovakis
Circumference Books | November 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949918-09-0
The poems in this bilingual collection “turn over hard questions about protest and power with an attention to everyday life that is woven inside political witness.”
Old Time Magic Love Song by Vidyā
Translated from the Sanskrit by Andrew Schelling
Circumference Books | November 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949918-08-3
Originally from approximately eighth-century India, these poems are “gracefully attentive to a natural world that spans the centuries with immediacy.”
Birdbrains: A Lyrical Guide to Washington State Birds
Raven Chronicles Press | November 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-73547-809-8
According to Ursula Valdez, this multi-genre anthology edited by Susan Rich “brings to the stage 107 species of Washington birds in the words of ninety-eight talented poets and writers.”
Common Disaster: Poems by M. Cynthia Cheung
Acre Books | November 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-946724-98-4
In her debut poetry collection, Cheung “takes a stand against the extinction of self and memory, challenging the violence of erasure.”
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | November 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962405-47-8
According to Paul J. Willis, in this collection Osborn “records nearly thirty years of comings and goings from an upstairs apartment in an old Victorian house beside the tracks in Santa Barbara.”
Weaving Liberation: An Archival Chapbook by M. K. Thekkumkattil
Abode Press | November 15, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9900598-8-7
This hybrid chapbook “offers an archive and genuflection to the communities that have come together for Palestinian liberation.”
Landguage/Mirror Me by Marina Blitshteyn
Fonograf Editions | November 18, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-964499-60-4
According to Wendy Xu, Blitshteyn “writes the bent rhymes of class, country, migration, inheritance, and belonging into a crackling irresistible music, not a placating melody but a sounding that echoes across names and generations.”
The Invisible Hand by Douglas Cole
Sea Crow Press | November 18, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961864-36-8
According to Ace Boggess, this novel features “a sequence of seemingly disparate stories that come together in subtleties and hard moments of brutal clarity.”
Ruins and Other Poems by Samer Abu Hawwash
Translated from the Arabic by Huda J. Fakhreddine
World Poetry Books | November 18, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-954218-40-6
In this book-length poem, Abu Hawwash engages “with the archetypal Arabic qasida and its echoes in the present, set against a backdrop of exile, displacement, and genocide.”
Vine Leaves Press | November 18, 2025
ISBN: 978-3-98832-180-0
In this novel following an Australian nurse during World War II, “the death of a man she barely knew leaves a wound that refuses to heal, threatening to bind her to a life of loneliness.”
A Century in the Making: A Hundred-Year Journey from Refugee to American by Peter Lindenfeld
Catalyst Press | November 18, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-963511-32-1
Lindenfeld’s memoir “unfolds the story of immigration, assimilation, destruction and rebirth of home and relationships in post war North America.”
The Slaughterhouse of Dreams by Fiston Mwanza Mujila
Translated from the French by J. Bret Maney
Deep Vellum | November 18, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64605-411-4
This book is “rooted in a traditional Congolese form of praise poem that ties together proverbs, myths, fables, and riddles into a recitation, accompanied by music.”
Willows Wake and Walk Away by Haley Wooning
Half Mystic Press | November 18, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-948552-18-9
Wooning’s poetry collection asks, “What happens after the haunting ends, when the serpent finally sleeps? What does it mean to carry the weight of a heart sloughing off its innumerable dead—and, in the absence of peace, learn to love a life wild, uncanny, and wholly one’s own?”
She Will Last as Long as Stones by kathy wu
Wendy’s Subway | November 18, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9909878-8-3
This debut book “mines data from the United States Geological Survey, pairing it with (mis)translations of conversations with the author’s mother, narratives of racialized and gendered labor, and elegies on end-of-life care.”
Translated from the Greek by Brian Sneeden
World Poetry Books | November 20, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-954218-41-3
This poetry collection—the second edition of Giannisi’s English-language debut—“offers a contemporary Odyssey of loss, longing, motherhood, and metamorphosis.”
The Ordering of Stars by Kersten Christianson
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | November 21, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962405-52-2
The poems in this collection “wander like scavengers of wonder, mapping the heart through seasons of absence and wistful light.”
Humanimality by Rainer J. Hanshe
Contra Mundum Press | November 24, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-940625-77-5
This novel is “a hybrid monster of a book that interrogates humanity’s troubled relation with its animality, and so its relation to animals, the earth and, ultimately, the cosmos.”
Tell Us How to Live by Ace Boggess
Fernwood Press | November 25, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-174-6
In this poetry collection, Boggess finds “questions in conversations, literary works, advertisements, social-media posts, and anywhere they appear, using them as titles and responding in thought-provoking, serious, lighthearted, or often unpredictable ways.”
Scattered Light by Martha Engber
Vine Leaves Press | November 25, 2025
ISBN: 978-3-98832-182-4
In this novel, attorney Mary Donahue “discovers that to love is to risk learning who you really are and what happened to you.”
Mountain. Memory. Marsh. by Carol Parris Krauss
Fernwood Press | November 25, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-182-1
In her debut poetry collection, Krauss “embarks on a poetic journey of self-discovery, weaving together the landscapes of her life from the Appalachian foothills to the coastal marshlands.”
Several Small Animals Enclosed in a Benedictine Monastery by Vera Hadzic
Anvil Press | November 30, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-77214-252-5
The poems in this debut collection “strive to mediate the inside and the outside of the self, probing at the anxious impulses to contain oneself and, at the same time, break open.”
So We Blush Less When the Phone Rings by Mark Wagstaff
Anvil Press | November 30, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-77214-251-8
This novel imagines a future world “where differences hinge on whether we’re organic or customised, whether we’re physical creatures or a controlled visualisation.”
