Shards of Blue by Michael Ratcliffe

$14.49

 

Finishing Line Press author, Michael Ratcliffe, has been invited to participate in the 2016 Tucson Festival of Books, March 2016.

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Michael Ratcliffe was one of the featured readers at the kick-off event for the 2015 Western Maryland Indie Lit Festival. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BihjE7ZS8GY&feature=yout-u.be

 

Ratcliffe read four poems, including “The Glass” from Shards of Blue. His reading begins at 14:05 minutes into the video.

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Interview with Michael Ratcliffe about Shards of Blue by Debby Kevin, of the Little Patuxent Review: https://littlepatuxentreview.org/2015/06/19/voices-of-his-past-an-interview-with-michael-ratcliffe/

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In Shards of Blue, Michael Ratcliffe demonstrates the lyrical historical poetry we have come to love at The Copperfield Review. Ratcliffe channels the realities of American prairie life in the 19th century—both the good and the bad. Perhaps it is because he is writing about his own family, his great-great grandparents, that he is able to evoke the poetic voices of the speakers so skillfully. Readers who love poetry about life on the American prairie in the 19th century, or anyone who loves well-written historical poetry, will enjoy Shards of Blue by Michael Ratcliffe.

— Meredith Allard, Editor, The Copperfield Review

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Shards of Blue

by Michael Ratcliffe

$14.49, paper

Shards of Blue is my collection of 25 poems that tell the story of my great-great-grandparents, John and Mary Ratcliff, from their migration to Kansas in 1855 as part of a Quaker abolitionist community, through the Civil War, to the post-war years when their relationship changed, they divorced, and Mary took out her own homestead. Through these poems, I give voice to John and Mary and the hope, trauma, loss of trust and love, and the optimism of new beginnings that defined their lives.

Welcome to my poetry page.  I am a geographer and poet, living and writing in the suburbs between Baltimore and Washington.  My poetry has appeared in a variety of print and on-line journals, including Baltimore Style, Fourth & Sycamore, Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review, Peacock Journal, Thief, Free State Review, Little Patuxent Review, Deep South Magazine, Kumquat, Poetry Quarterly, Loch Raven Review, Symmetry Pebbles, Commonthought Magazine, The Copperfield Review, Do Not Look at the Sun, Three Line Poetry, and You Are Here:  The Journal of Creative Geography.

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