The Exorcised Lyric

THE EXORCISED LYRIC is a collaboration of speculative poetry by Steven Withrow and Frank Coffman. It includes two collaborative sonnet sequences: The Exorcised Lyric and Toward Solstice Station. The reader will also find 20 new individual poems by each of these formalist poets and both a cover and amazing interior illustrations by Paul Mutartis Boswell. This tome follows publications of individual collections by these established poets of the speculative: THE SUN SHIPS & OTHER POEMS and THE BEDLAM PHILHARMONIC by Withrow; and THE COVEN'S HORNBOOK & OTHER POEMS and BLACK FLAMES & GLEAMING SHADOWS by Coffman.STEVEN WITHROW'S poems have appeared in Spectral Realms Asimov's Science Fiction Dreams & Nightmares and Epitaphs: The Journal of the New England Horror Writers. His short poem The Sun Ships from a collection of the same title was nominated for a 2016 Rhysling Award from the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association. His most recent solo collection is THE BEDLAM PHILHARMONIC. He lives in Falmouth Massachusetts.The two collaborations focus upon a haunted-perhaps possessed!-minister and poet whose piously intended lines are somehow altered into blasphemies in the former sequence and upon an time-and-space shifting trip by train that present the reader with seemingly the same father mother and daughter but traveling through different eras and places in a journey across America-East to West.