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Palimpsest Press is offering two poetry books in its “2009 Beautiful Editions Collection” for its 10-year anniversary sale. These poetry books are printed on laid paper and have coloured end-sheets. Buy this collection and you’ll receive two poetry books for $28, saving you a  lot of money!

John Barger’s Pain-proof Men (2009): The voice that emerges is that of a derelict who sings the names of God during the day, and moonlights at a circus as a human pincushion at night. The various personas in these poems are men in pain. All, however mythic and powerful, have failed at love and work and life, and feel an overwhelming ache.

Kate Braid's Turning Left to the Ladies (2009): An autobiographical account of the fifteen years she worked as a labourer, apprentice and journey carpenter, building houses, high rises and bridges. A wry, sometimes humorous, sometimes meditative look at one woman’s relationship to her craft, and the people she met along the way.