Backwaters Press
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Nine Persimmons
$17.95 Add to cartThe Backwaters Prize in Poetry Honorable Mention
In Nine Persimmons Kerry James Evans traces a geography both intimate and far-flung–Tuscaloosa and Biloxi, Charleston and New Orleans, the Cloisters ab
- Series: The Backwaters Prize in Poetry Honorable Mention
- Author: Evans, Kerry James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: March 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1496243714
- Language: English
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Wolves in Shells
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry
Wolves in Shells is a modern monomyth telling the story of a woman navigating homelessness, trauma, and memories as she attempts to leave a violent partner. Re- Series: Backwaters Prize in Poetry
- Author: Priest, Kimberly Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496243706
- Language: English
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Butterfly Nebula
$17.95 Add to cartGold Medal in Poetry for the 2024 Illumination Book Awards
Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry, Butterfly Nebula reaches from the depths of the sea to the edges of space to chart intersections o- Series: Backwaters Prize in Poetry
- Author: Hogan, Laura Reece
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496236106
- Language: English
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Drone
$16.00 Add to cartDRONE is a lyric meditation on modern warfare, in our technological and digital age. Written from a variety of perspectives and personas, it explores the human, animal, personal, and domestic aspects … [more below]
- Series: Backwaters Prize in Poetry
- Author: Garcia, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1935218409
- Language: English
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An Otherwise Healthy Woman
$15.95 Add to cartFirst Place in Creative Works from the American Journal of Nursing’s Book of the Year Awards
The po
Second Place in Professional Issues from the American Journal of Nursing’s Book of the Year Awards- Series: The Backwaters Prize in Poetry Honorable Mention
- Author: Haddad, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496227859
- Language: English
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Hope, as the World Is a Scorpion Fish
$16.00 Add to cartLiz Robbins’s poems have what only the very best poems have: a sturdy toughness undergirding their tenderness. Though the body spins dervishly-almost blindly- for love and beauty, it must also accept … [more below]
- Author: Robbins, Liz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: March 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0979393450
- Language: English
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Two Open Doors in a Field
$17.95 Add to cartThe poems of Two Open Doors in a Field are constructed through deliberate limitations, restlessly exploring place, desire, and spirituality. A profusion of sonnets rises from a single circumstance: So… [more below]
- Series: The Backwaters Prize in Poetry Honorable Mention
- Author: Klahr, Sophie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496232372
- Language: English
