What if Half Past Yesterday Returns?

Jackie Craven reimagines time in a prize-winning new collection

Book cover with detailed painting of watch, newspaper clipping, and broken eggs

Surrealistic prose poems and lyric verse tell a mind-bending tale of minutes and hours transformed into secretaries, bookkeepers, and rogues.

PRESS 53 AWARD FOR POETRY

SPRING 2024

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"With Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, and Star Trek as her muses, Jackie Craven subverts time... WHISH is a triumph of a book!"  —DENISE DUHAMEL, author of Second Story

"Craven skillfully paints a manic world full of stark and haunting images with an existential echo... " —JOSE HERNANDEZ DIAZ, author of The Fire Eater and Bad Mexican, Bad American 

“It’s rare to find such perfect prose poetry. Jackie Craven’s abrupt swerves and disruptive metaphors drop readers off cliffs, repeatedly.” —TOM LOMBARDO, Series Editor

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About the Writer

Jackie Craven writes poetry and prose steeped in magical realism. In addition to WHISH, she's the author of Secret Formulas & Techniques of the Masters (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2018), chapbooks from Omnidawn and Headmistress Press, and books on interior design.

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Cover of Secret Formulas & Techniques of the Masters with painting of a middle-aged couple dining on lobster on a beach. A monkey in the foreground drinks from an empty glass.
Secret Formulas