New Book! The Inner Mountain by David Chorlton

 

This new collection of poems is enhanced by 18 full color reproductions of David's beautiful watercolors. 

Prayer

Hawks who flew here for centuries

left their shadows stacked so high

they formed a ridgeline.

Dry lightning whipped it

and darkness howled a supplication

to seek relief until

the mountain was a prayer  

turned to stone.

David Chorlton was born in Austria and grew up in Manchester, England. In 1971 he moved from the rainy industrial city to the cultural city of Vienna and stayed seven years before moving to Phoenix, where he began to invest more time in his writing. Arizona’s landscape and wildlife gradually infiltrated his work, where he can show his affection for them even while acknowledging that he remains, quite contentedly, unassimilated. That is a circumstance to which he owes much of his poetry.

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David has been actively involved in the small press scene since the 1970's and has had over 30 books and chapbooks published by various presses through the years. The twelve most recent are:

2020 Speech Scroll (Cholla Needles)

2019 Gilded Snow: the poems of Raissa Parnok (Cholla Needles)

2018 Reading T. S. Eliot to a Bird (Hoot ‘n Waddle) 

2017 Bird on a Wire (Presa Press)

2015 A Field Guide to Fire (FutureCycle Press) 

2014 Selected Poems (FutureCycle Press)

2012 The Devil’s Sonata (FutureCycle Press)

2011 The Taste of Fog (Rain Mountain Press) 

2007 The Porous Desert (Future Cycle Press)

2006 Waiting for the Quetzal (March Street Press)

2004 Return to Waking Life (Main Street Rag Publishing Company)

2003 A Normal Day Amazes Us (Kings Estate Press)