Dragonfly Library

Poems by Luvuyo Mkangelwa

Author: © Luvuyo Mkangelwa Republished from Jack Magazine (2000-2010) Issue 5–the South Africa poetry feature–with permission of acquisitions editor Michael Rothenberg Type: Poetry Back to the Dragonfly Library The Martyrs’ Speak (21 March 2002) I fell for you, bit the dust and bled the stone that left me with a […]

Read More

Invisible Wings, Coronavirus 2020 Poems

Author: © Tom Hibbard Type: Poetry – excerpt Author Links: Big Bridge, Moon Willow Press, Jacket Magazine //     (manifesto) only because the promotion of privilege uncovers mournful worlds, confusing the light— the gazelles of clean water issue no threat weighing pros and cons, unseen, paradoxical looked upon categorically as […]

Read More

Code Zero, Part 2

The following are more excerpts of Tom Hibbard’s Schizpo Code Zero: The Economics of Ambiguity and Creation of Value Back to the Dragonfly Library Forborne Photo (Two) classicism turns science into fascism linear evidence less global than fantasy absolutism of the self precludes history dismissing the subjective miracles of ambiguous […]

Read More

Aerovoyan, P.L. Tavormina

On planet Turaset, droughts ravage farmlands, cyclones rip through coastal cities, and with every barrel of oil the combustion industry pumps from the ground, the climate worsens. Alphonse has just refused a council seat because taking it means serving that rapacious industry. He leaves the city to seek solace in […]

Read More

The Hollow Middle, John Popielaski

Author: © John Popielaski Type: Fiction Novel Publisher/Ordering: Unsolicited Press Publication Date: December 4, 2018 Author Links: Author website Back to the Dragonfly Library Book Description: The primary narrative thread, Albert seeking a more authentic off-the-grid life in Maine, attempts to subvert that archetypal storyline of someone fleeing to the woods to escape […]

Read More

The Apocalypse Variations

Title: The Apocalypse Variations, Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days Author: © Marc Taro Holmes Ordering: print, e-book Publication Date: June 22, 2019 Author Link:  website Back to the Dragonfly Library   The Apocalypse Variations Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days Marc Taro Holmes, CSPWC, SCA Copyright © 2019 Marc Taro Holmes […]

Read More

The Suicide Season

Author: © Jeremy Gadd Publication Date: April 15, 2019 Publisher and Ordering: Stormbird Press Type: Fiction Social Media: Facebook Back to the Dragonfly Library Book Blurb When demoralised Warren Yeats abandons his failing business, his ex-wife and his city lifestyle to embark on a road trip with more twists and […]

Read More

No Entry

Author: © Gila Green Publisher/pre-order: Stormbird Press Publication Date: September 17, 2019 Social Media: Author blog, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn Back to the Dragonfly Library Book blurb: Broken-hearted after losing her only brother in a terrorist attack, 17-year-old Yael Amar seeks solace on an elephant conservation program in South Africa’s Kruger […]

Read More

The Battle for the Black Fen

Author: © Annis Pratt Series: Infinite Games, book 4 Publisher: Moon Willow Press Publication Date: December 2018 Social Media: Author blog, Twitter Back to the Dragonfly Library Series Description Annis Pratt’s novels are full of passion for the natural world and enthusiasm for the details of everyday life. Her invented […]

Read More

Back to the Garden

Author: © Clara Hume Series: Wild Mountain Series, book 1 Publisher: Dragonfly Publishing Publication Date: October 2018 Social Media: Author blog, Facebook, Twitter Back to the Dragonfly Library Chapter 1–Fran Between dropping seeds like raindrops onto pitted soil and slogging hotly through the creek at the hatchery, I often thought what […]

Read More

Beneath the Mother Tree

Author: © D. M. Cameron Publisher: MidnightSun Publishing Ordering: Amazon Publication Date: August 1, 2018 Social Media: Author blog, Facebook, Goodreads Back to the Dragonfly Library Even though the island of Moondarrawah is fictitious, this story takes place within the landscape of Quandamooka country. Moondarrawah is a Ngugi word granted […]

Read More

Code Zero

The following are excerpts of Tom Hibbard’s Schizpo Code Zero: The Economics of Ambiguity and Creation of Value Back to the Dragonfly Library Forborne Photo (One) abstract open-axiom inquiry accelerates wages’ ritual descent amidst the scattered wastes of exclusion already formed as obsolescence in misused praxis cynicism appears as practicality […]

Read More

Shrinking Sinking Land

Author: © Kell CowleyPublication Date: December 14, 2018Ordering: AmazonSocial Media: Twitter, Instagram, Goodreads, Publisher (Odd Voice Out) Back to the Dragonfly Library This extract also appears in the 2016 climate change anthology Everything Change as it was selected as a prize winning finalist by sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson who […]

Read More

The Melt Trilogy

Author: © K.E. Lanning Trilogy: A Spider Sat Beside Her, The Sting of the Bee, Listen to the Birds Publication Dates: (Spider) January 8, 2018; (Bee) April 4, 2018; (Birds) Coming on April 4, 2019 Social Media: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram; Author’s Website (with ordering links) The Melt Trilogy comprises of  […]

Read More

Barnburner, Erin Hoover

Author: © Erin Hoover Publication Date: October 1, 2018 Ordering: SPD Books, Amazon, Indiebound Social Media: Twitter, Facebook, Website Back to the Dragonfly Library Nobody Wanted Such a River Nobody needed it, nobody was curious about it. —Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi Geography in 1608 being what it was, […]

Read More