Mercedes Webb-Pullman

poems published around the world by New Zealand author Mercedes Webb-Pullman 2015/16

In 60 pages of free verse and well-executed forms, the author presents the lives of 40 different women: historical, fictional, mythical, and domestic.

""Reading 'Track Tales' is like key-holing a personal diary that gives the human drum on the racing industry in Australia during the early 1980s. The poems perversely honour the men, women, horses and dogs that were the industry at the time ... the poems jostle at the starting gate. Suddenly they're off and running A totally absorbing read."" Martin Christmas, author of 'Immediate Reflections'

"The oxygen and hydrogen will now have the honor of combining before Your Majesty." - Professor John Henry Pepper In a world that never was but should have been, steam rules the sea, the skies and the aether. Amid a cacophony of cranking sprockets and cogs, in chuffs of steam and soot, "Clockwork Kiru: Steampunk Haiku" looks to the future through the lens of the past - through the imagistic language of haiku. In this anthology of steampunk haiku, fifty authors take the reader on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure with haiku of mystery, magic, science and romance. With haiku by Alex Plummer, Andrew J. Lucas, Antoinette Mccormick, Ashley Williams, Brenda Champlin, Carla Aickman, Chris Fradkin, D. Neidhart, D. J. Daniels, David S. Pointer, Deborah Walker, E. A. Clifton-James, E. S. Wynn, Ed Higgins, Emily Jo Scalzo, Fanni S to, Gail Oare, George Nicolae, Henry Gilman, Ingmar P. Gindl, James, J. Stevenson, Jannet Yang, J. Russo, Jennifer Courtney, Jo Wu, Joe A. Mancini, John Webster, Marie Churchman, Mathias Jansson, Matthew Wilson, Mercedes Webb-Pullman, Narendra Daivari, Pattie Flint, Peter Swindells, R. I. Riehle, R. T. Sturgeon, Reggie Carlisle, Richie Andrus, Robert Jones, Roderick Kearns, Sara Cleto, Serena Dalton, Serena H. Slater, Sergei Orlov, Sheridan Lawrence, Stephanie Rose, Stephen James, T. Tanith Poe, Thomas Miller-Donnelly and Tyson West. With artwork by Joe Busson, Paul F. Clegg, Lucas McCammon and Edmund Lewinski. Edited by David Nell and published by Dreamscape Press. Superstition Mountains by Tyson West Smog by Adrian George Nicolae Runesansu by Antoinette Mccormick Late Afternoon by Thomas Miller-Donnelly Steam Velocipede by John Webster Inventor's Lament by Marie Churchman True Love by Pattie Flint Morning In Clockworkland by Robert Jones Brass & Goggles by E. A. Clifton-James Observation by T. Tanith Poe Coffee Break by Gail Oare Building Dreams by Jo Wu Flightless Spirit by Serena Dalton Trappings by Roderick Kearns Hickory Haiku by Mercedes Webb-Pullman Ol' Clunker by Richie Andrus Berlin Zeppelin by Jannet Yang Mechanical Resilience by Brenda Champlin Dreams Before by R. I. Riehle Word On The Street by Narendra Daivari Serpent In The Garden by Henry Gilman Midnight Circus by D. Neidhart Dreams After by Joe A. Mancini An Absence Of Choice by Emily Jo Scalzo For The War by Stephen James Dead Man's Cloth by J. Russo Man In The Moon by Mathias Jansson Lift-Off by R.t. Sturgeon Final Goodbyes by Sheridan Lawrence Adrenaline Rush by Carla Aickman The Skies Spewed Oil Slicks by Chris Fradkin Lunar Tunes by David S. Pointer Stalking Sky Pirates by E. S. Wynn Tennyson's War Cogs by James J. Stevenson Gatling by Peter Swindells Shrouded by Andrew J. Lucas That Cursed Clocksmith by Ingmar P. Gindl Broadside by Alex Plummer Time Slip by D. J. Daniels The Sorceror Of Serbia by Michael Sheridan Transcendence by Reggie Carlisle The Death Of The Clockwork Man by Stephanie Rose Tickety-Tock Heart by Deborah Walker Revolution by Sergei Orlov Rekindled by Sara Cleto Lost Ship by Ed Higgins Thrive by Ashley Williams After The War by Matthew Wilson Novel by Jennifer Courtney Escape by Serena H. Slater Steam Petals by Fanni Suto

Tasseography is a divination or fortune-telling method that interrogates patterns in tea leaves, coffee grounds, or wine sediments. It derives from the French word tasse, which in turn derives from the cognate Arabic word tassa, and the Greek suffix -graph. Divination attempts to gain insight through intuitive interpretation. This is book collects interpretations of symbols I've heard and read about or seen used by readers, including my mother. You, as a reader, will develop your own vocabulary of the leaves. This is just a suggested starting-place.

In AFTER THE DANSE, we discover the poetry and prose of Mercedes Webb-Pullman, whose feminine sensibilities and mytho-poetic lyricism dance like the flames of a candle. It is her voice - irreverent, direct, musical - singing with a playfully sinister passion, illuminating the dark chambers of the human heart. Webb-Pullman masterfully observes the commedia within the tragic, the mythic within the heartbreak. She draws readers in gently, via querulous Greek gods and demigods, before proceeding to the lives of survivors of the 20th Century's furies, a pirouette into the blood and marrow of ruthless authenticity. AFTER THE DANSE is a must for anyone with an interest in poetry that both cuts like a knife and caresses with the gentlest of touches, a haunting reliquary that only gains momentum the further you read.

LOOKING FOR KEROUAC is a m lange of creative non-fiction, prose and poetry, travelogue and memoir, from acclaimed New Zealand poet & author Mercedes Webb-Pullman. Layering flashbacks from her American honeymoon 30 years ago with journeys by train in search of remnants of the world of Kerouac and Co. in their cross-hatching travels over their country, "LOOKING FOR KEROUAC is certainly a piece of writing that Kerouac or any other stream-of-consciousness guru would be proud of. Allow the whole thing to hypnotize and bliss you out." (Robert Clark Young, CNF Editor, Connotation Press).