Our moderators listened to every track we were sent this week and have picked their favourites for your listening pleasure this weekend:

AS I SPEAK - Surrender
ATTICOMATIC - Wait
BATTERY POINT - On Love
BETH GLADEN - Re-Birth
BLIK - Twist It
CLAUDIA FENOGLIO - Julia
CORMAC NAGLE - Vaguely Alive
DANNY GROENLAND - Olive Trees (feat. Talha Wise Wolf)
ELISA ZOOT - Clever Crow
EMILY MERCER - Better
ERRUNHRD - DON'T DRINK CHEMICALS
GIRL FOR SAMSON - Falling Up
GRACIE BEVERLEY - The Big Bang
JEWELIA - Here's Your Life, Enjoy
JOSEPH BELL, MISSMARIE, THE HONEYMOONERS CLUB - Stories In My Mind
LAKES - Peach Fuzz
NINA HUDSON - Timebomb Of Isolation
OFILL - Simple
PARCS - Red Lines
SOUTHALL - Whispered Tears
STILL TRAFFICO - Two Birches
THE IV - Eastern Promise
TILLY VALENTINE - Buzzkill
TJTUCKER - Transmuting
WRITECREATE - Under The Thunder

Listening Post: Batch 564

John Ashbery: "Some Trees"

Background and poem text: http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/09/24/mary-oliver-reads-wild-geese/

Recorded by the Lannan Foundation in 2001.

DETAILS / POEM TEXT

Mary Oliver reads "Wild Geese"

Surrender

Written, Recorded, Produced and Mixed by Beth Gladen and Jenneifer Gelinas

Spotify Link: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6IofIOoZbCZSZ7K2IvymJz?si=zv_4LxowS5GpmYVrmyrlQg

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Re-Birth

Re-Birth (EP)

Wait

Words and Music by Cormac Joseph Nagle

Acoustic Guitar/Harmonica/Vocals by Cormac Joseph Nagle

Keys/Bass VI/Production/Mixing/Mastering by Jack Grace

Vaguely Alive

On Love

“The big event in poetry for 2015 will likely be the long-awaited resurrection of Frank Stanford, a legendary badass from Arkansas, much of whose poetry has been unavailable since his suicide at the age of 29 in 1978… Stanford was a hell of a metaphor-maker and simile-slinger, and could cast a spell of extreme intensity with a flick of his wrist.”—NPR.org"His love poems can sound like the cry of an angel falling backward through an open window, to borrow Dwight Yoakam’s line about Roy Orbison’s voice . . . . Mr. Stanford could lose his heart without blowing his cool.”—New York Times, 2015"It is astounding to me that I was not even aware of this accomplished and moving poet. There is a great deal of pain on the poems, but it is a pain that makes sense, a tragic pain whose meaning rises from the way the poems are so firmly molded and formed from within."—James Wright

We appreciate you ordering direct from TMB. So much so that your order of this book will include a free Frank Stanford button.

Hidden Water: From the Frank Stanford Archives is 200 pages of unpublished poems, facsimiles, artwork, photos, handwrtten drafts, and letters. The third single-author title from Third Man Books is a must read for those who appreciate both Stanford and American poetry.

*Features unpublished poems, drafts, and photos.*Features unpublished letters between Stanford, Allen Ginsberg, Pulitzer Prize poet Alan Dugan, and others.*Features unseen artwork by Ginny Stanford.*Includes an appreciation written by award winning author and Stanford’s friend Steve Stern.*Copper Canyon Press’s Michael Wiegers is the co-editor (with TMB’s Chet Weise) and wrote the Preface.*Complements Copper Canyon's best selling collection What About This.*Includes link to audio by special guests and more.

Hidden Water: From the Frank Stanford Archives

FRANK STANFORD Hidden Water: From the Frank Stanford Archives

"The Moon" - Frank Stanford (read by Bill Willett)

The Avalanches + David Berman - "A Cowboy Overflow of the Heart (Demo)"

TR133 - David Grubbs & Ryley Walker - Fight Or Flight Simulator [excerpt]

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Vaguely Alive

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