The Author, the books
Ken Poyner
Ken Poyner has published more than 2000 poems and stories, in more than 300 magazines and web sites, and collected multiple Pushcart Prize, Rhysling and other literary prize nominations. He has appeared in The Alaska Quarterly Review, Cafe Irreal, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Tuck Magazine, The Indiana Review, and many others. His work, both poetry and fiction, looks for edges to experience, dark places to jump into.
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Constant Animals
Mini-fictions. 2013. Society among birds. A man falls in love with a mouth. A glass demimondaine.
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The Book of Robot
Speculative poetry, 2016. What happens when the machines become aware of themselves?
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Victims of a Failed Civics
Speculative poetry, 2016. Broken individuals awash in an unfathomable society.
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Avenging Cartography
Speculative mini-fictions, 2017. Houses that migrate. A woman dating a spider. A village built of books.
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The Revenge of the House Hurlers
Speculative mini-fictions, 2018. Deconstruction giants. What your closet monster does when you are away. Carnivorous butterflies.
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Engaging Cattle
Speculative mini-fictions, 2019. Cattle tuning. Buying words on the black market. Genetically modified corn goes rogue.
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Stone the Monsters, or Dance
Speculative poetry, 2021. A man carving his wife from a tree. A carnivorous lawn. A list of things to do on the last day of the world.
Lessons From Lingering Houses
Lessons From Lingering Houses
Speculative poetry, 2021. A man steeling himself to protect the house from Santa Clause. The parking lot attendant at a time portal. A woman who cavorts with dragons.
The frightening experimental collection
Winter's Last Apple : Poetry, Prose Poetry, Micro-fiction
Ranging from the clumsy arrival of Europeans in the Americas to immoral commerce for automatons, this is a collection of surreal encounters, debauches, and saintliness which will titillate the hinges of the imagination. Poetry, prose poetry, micro-fiction originally published in places such as Café Irreal, Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Pacific Review and more than three dozen other literary venues. 2023.
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106 pages (paperback)
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Most recent collection from Ken Poyner
A speculative poetry collection
A poetry of alien encounters, robot emotions, and the fantastical, originally published in major magazines, both speculative and literary, such as Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Blue Unicorn, Mobius, and Star*Line.
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Finding the Books
Barking Moose Press books are available from Amazon and other websites in paperback and E-book formats. Sundial Books in Chincoteague, Virginia www.sundialbooks.net carries a full coven of BMP books in paperback. Kindle format can be found on Amazon, and Epub at Smashwords and dozens of other book selling sites.