“Martin Edmunds as always loads every rift with ore. With its compelling cadence, with its command of dense diction, Edmunds’s language is a sensuous and sensible joy.”
Flame in a Stable
by Martin Edmunds
In his first collection in over 25 years, poet Martin Edmunds' Flame in a Stable is an alarmingly poignant and intelligent book of poems. Author of the National Poetry Series winning The High Road to Taos, Edmunds draws you in with each word like the chains of an anchor being lifted onto a boat. Mixing the sacred and the sinful in a knowing and playful way, come read and hear from yourself what poet Tom Sleigh calls the "textured and rebellious music of Martin Edmunds's Flame in a Stable."
“Flame in a Stable admits me into the committed life of a literate, far-reaching, colloquial, passionate, playful, and witty poetic voice — what more can we ask?“
-Jim Kates, The Arts Fuse
Martin Edmunds
Martin Edmunds' book, The High Road to Taos, was chosen by Donald Hall for the National Poetry Series. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Paris Review, Little Star, Grand Street, The Nation, The Partisan Review, Southwest Review, and Agni among other journals and anthologies; three poems are featured on the Yeats Society of NY website. Awards and honors include an Artist Fellowship in Poetry from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the “Discovery”/ The Nation Prize, the Lloyd McKim Garrison Medal for Poetry, and the Harvard Monthly Prize. Edmunds was an Artist-in-Residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine for many years, where he wrote plays, verse plays, libretti, and entertainments. He has also co-written screenplays, including Passion in the Desert, a feature adaptation of the Balzac story for Roland Films released by Fine Line. Edmunds works as a freelance editor, teaches creative writing and versification, and digs life on the Outer Cape as a landscaper, clam raker, and oysterer.
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