The Patience of Horses by Rick Lott (2009)

The Patience of Horses

Rick Lott

The 2009 Ledge Poetry Chapbook contest winner

The Ledge Press

Bellport, NY

(c) 2009

The Ledge Press has a formula that they use for all their contest winners. It includes glossy slick covers that do not appeal to me at all. However, I do like the cover image of the Mobil Pegasus logo. 

Poetry is good. Not abstract enough for my peculiar taste and a bit too much first person singular. But it was not my contest and all I got to do is read the work. But I really do like the cover image. That works for me. 

The Green Cottage by Micelle Gillett (2010)

The Green Cottage

Michelle Gillett

The Ledge Press 

Winner of the Ledge 2010 Poetry Chapbook contest

Bellport, NY

(c)2010

Handsome book with a slick cover. Poems are fine. The production is fine. Just not my flavor, I suppose. Ms. Gillett is an accomplished poet as stated in her bio. Not meaning to sound dismissive. At the time of the release of this chapbook she was the co-partner of g + r, a writer assistance company but I found no trace of it online. 

Perfect Stranger by Earl McMurray (1997)

 Perfect Stranger

Earl McMurray

The Ledge Press

1997 Poetry Chapbook Contest Winner

Glendale, NY

(c)1997

Staple bound chapbook on slick cover stock. Photo of the poet inside back cover. Belated congrats for this contest winner (decades belated at this point). Have to say, (I) greatly appreciate that many of the poems in this winner book are absent of first person singular. 

Perfect Stranger by Earl McMurray (1998)

Perfect Stranger

Earl McMurray

Winner of the Ledge 1997 Annual Poetry Chapbook Contest

The Ledge Press

Glendale, NY

(c)1998

Inherited from a book lot dump I received years ago now. Not 1998 "ago" but - it's a contest winner but it doesn't tickle my poetry bone. Acknowledgment only.