OFF RADAR: Poems from Alice Persons and Peter Kilgore

Maine Authors

Published
March 21, 2019

OFF RADAR: Poems from Alice Persons and Peter Kilgore

“Be There or Be Square” is a pleasant poetic amble through what might be a day’s worth of unhurried reveries on the past and present, and “Quarry: The Collected Poems of Peter Kilgore” offers crisply imagistic poetry of the Maine coast.
Published
March 14, 2019

BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Now You See the Sky’ and ‘Bad News Travels Fast’

It is a rare book that makes the reader so uncomfortable that it is hard to read, but even harder to put down.
Published
March 7, 2019

OFF RADAR: ‘Li Bai Rides a Celestial Dolphin Home’

Tom Sexton’s poetic cosmos spans Eastport to Anchorage, and beyond
Published
February 28, 2019

BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Maine Has Moxie,’ ‘How Do Fairies Have Fun in the Sun?’ and ‘Cinnamon Birds’

Books for young readers offer fun Maine history, fairy adventures and a story of friendship and conservation
Published
February 21, 2019

OFF RADAR: The bent fictions of Jefferson Navicky

His fiction is like looking at a stick held half in and half out of the water. It’s straight going into the water. But under the surface, it appears to bend at a weird angle.
Published
February 14, 2019

BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘The Cattle Drive’ and ‘Something About the House’

Ethan Wolfe releases the latest in his excellent string of westerns and Jane Harvey's second novel doesn't quite measure up to the first
Published
February 6, 2019

OFF RADAR: ‘My Life in Water: Poems’

Poetry collection by Christopher Fahy offers prismatic narratives
Published
January 24, 2019

BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Beyond the Truth’ and ‘Down East: An Illustrated History of Maritime Maine’

Bruce Robert Coffin releases the latest in the Detective Byron mystery series and Lincoln Paine's 2000 release is back in print
Published
January 17, 2019

OFF RADAR: ‘Big Little City: Poems’

Mike Bove's post-Beat poems from Portland
Published
January 9, 2019

BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘The Last Cruise’ and ‘Lexington and Concord: The Battle Heard Round the World’

Passengers and crew accounts of the last voyage of the aging liner Queen Isabella and an excellent story of April 19, 1775, when Massachusetts militiamen fought British redcoats