[Ned Balbo]

I just received a very kind and smart review by Christina Cook at Poets Quarterly for my 2009 chapbook Something Must Happen & thought I'd cluster a few links about the collection into one thread so anyone interested could easily take a look.

SMH is also available from Amazon if you'd like to add to your collection of Finishing Line Press chapbooks.

Happy Holidays! ~Ned

Something Must Happen reviews:

http://poetsquarterly.yolasite.com/winter11_balbo.php

http://rattle.com/blog/2010/06/somet...-by-ned-balbo/

http://www.versewisconsin.org/Issue1...lbo_vihos.html


Link for purchase:

http://www.amazon.com/Something-Must...7513983&sr=1-1

[Ed Shacklee]

Ned,

Does it matter, or would it be better to purchase this directly from Finishing Line Press, assuming one can, rather than from Amazon.com?

Ed

[Ned Balbo]

Hi, Ed,
I just checked FLP's purchase page & its on-line SMH link leads directly to Amazon.
(I think that's because the chapbook's been out since '09 & they have to marshall their efforts on new or forthcoming collections instead.)
But they'll also accept checks or money orders at headquarters:

Finishing Line Press
P.O. Box 1626
Georgetown, KY 40324
($14.00 + $1 for shipping.)

Thanks very much for asking!

[Cyn Neely]

Very nice, Ned.

Encouraging too that it is getting comment a couple of years after publication.

Congrats

[Ned Balbo]

Thanks, Cyn--I usually find it takes about 2 years for every review to trickle in. People kind enough to tackle one need to find the time to do it & getting it done doesn't always correspond to editor's deadlines, so a review might be pushed to the next issue, 3 or 6 mos. down the road.

I'm just always grateful when someone takes the time to try to figure out what the poet is aiming for. I tried to do that in the 10 years ('99-'09) I reviewed poetry in most issues of Antioch Review.

[Quincy Lehr]

Good on you, Ned!

[Ned Balbo]

This seems the right place, too, for Bill Lantry's kind words about SMH. I know most 'Spherians know him better than I do, but thanks, Bill, for favoring a relative stranger with your reading.

Something Must Happen at JMMW:
http://www.jmww.150m.com/Balborev1.html

(It's great, too, that Bill (& Kate) are getting so much good news about his poetry.)

[Catherine Chandler]

Ned, Congratulations on the great review.

[Andrew Frisardi]

Yes, Ned, sincere congratulations on the well-deserved review. It's refreshing to see such a well-written and -considered piece on a serious chapbook of poetry.

[David Mason]

Congratulations, Ned. Richly deserved. The Georgia Review used to do a regular round-up of chapbooks, and I miss that. I'd like to see the medium taken seriously in more periodicals.