[Tony Barnstone]

Hi All,

Since Halloween is around the corner, I thought to mention that an anthology of poems about ghosts, vampires, zombies and the figure of Death that I edited with Michelle Mitchell-Foust is now available as one of the lovely little hardbacks from Everyman's Pocket Library. The title is Poems Dead and Undead, and the link at Amazon is here http://www.amazon.com/Poems-Undead-E.../dp/0375712518

Here's the publisher's text:
This selection of poems from across the ages brings to life a staggering array of zombies, ghosts, vampires, and devils. Our culture's current obsession with zombies and vampires is only the latest form of a fascination with crossing the boundary between the living and the dead that has haunted humans since we first began writing. The poetic evidence gathered here ranges from ancient Egyptian inscriptions and the Mesopotamian epic Gilgamesh to the Greek bard Homer, and from Shakespeare and Milton and Keats to Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe. Here too are terrifying apparitions from a host of more recent poets, from T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath to Rita Dove and Billy Collins, from Allen Ginsberg and H. P. Lovecraft to Mick Jagger and Shel Silverstein. The result is a delightfully entertaining volume of spine-tingling poems for fans of horror and poetry both.

Enjoy!

Tony