Bass Clef Books
Cecilia ◊ Kentucky
Launched in 2022, Bass Clef Books is a small, independent press based in the heartland of Kentucky, USA.
BCB’s mission is to promote contemporary works of writing that would be essential to the growth of creative language crafts from a broad aesthetic choir through a general submission platform and a the George Drew Sophomore Chapbook Contest.
Occasionally, we will offer an anthology, which may include, fiction and nonfiction.
We will announce special projects as they emerge.
The publisher welcomes all voices and forms.
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Bass Clef Books is not accepting general submissions at this time.
BCB accepts generous donations of any amount
John Cullen The Observation of Basic Matter
Readers of John Cullen will simply be astounded to see such transformation from his Town Crazy poems of 2013 to these new stunning poems which take us on such a different journey in his The Observation of Basic Matter. These are poems far beyond whatever we might think imagination might be like as his leaps in language are sometimes just astounding. To say these poems are rich and evocative even of our own lives is not enough. They read more like a primer for life on earth, full of science, wonder, sadness, regret and yes, grieving. John helps us to imagine “whatever gives security/ in this world, of which we can’t be sure.”
—DeWitt Clinton author of The Conquistador Dog Texts and The Coyot. Inca Texts (New Rivers Press), At the End of the War (Kelsay Books, 2018), On a Lake by a Moon: Fishing with the Chinese Masters (Is A Rose Press, 2020) Hello There (Word Poetry (2021), and six chapbooks.
Julie Paschold You Have Always Been Here
Julie Paschold’s poetry collection, You Have Always Been Here, is a diaphanous touch of a bird feather across your cheek. A whisp of a weaved wing, like an electrical current, a flutter of energy that, like devotion, brings both satisfaction and sadness. She writes of love and the struggle to understand it when mixed with long-held and deep-set beliefs. Julie’s book is a rewarding prayer of and for connection: “because I have been here before,/this reaching for each other,” that once read, “. . .you are never the same/again.” --Bonnie Johnson-Bartee, author of Cord Blood (2022 Sandhills Press), 2023 Nebraska Book Awards (Poetry Honor award)
$20.00
George Drew More Distant Than Olympus
Who’d have thought that George Drew could find even more humor, even more horror, even more down and dirty fun in the depths of his Mississippi childhood? Even his brutal stepfathers couldn’t beat the wit, common sense, and knack for storytelling out of him. These are the poems of a young man who happens to be not so young in years, and his Mississippi is a state of being I want to keep visiting. But be warned: you may never look at a biscuit or a rooster or a watermelon the same way again.
—David Dooley, author of The Long Conversation: New & Selected Poems
War, Women and Words: An Anthology of Works by Female Ukrainian Veterans
Volume I
As the Ukranian war continues, read of the experiences from actual female Ukranian veterans in their own words. This anthology contains other creative content from the same authors translated from Ukranian and Russian.
$25.00
John Surowiecki
Chez Pétrouchka
$12.00
