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Norilana Books congratulates our author and editor Mike Allen (time_shark) whose poem "The Thirteenth Hell" from his Norilana collection The Journey to Kailash has been accepted for inclusion into Best Horror of the Year 1 edited by Ellen Datlow (ellen_datlow).

Congratulations on this honor, Mike! :-)



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Amal El-Mohtar over at SF Site reviews Mike Allen's (time_shark) The Journey to Kailash:

"Reader, it's brilliant.

[The] Journey to Kailash is a handsomely designed book that brings together the very best of Mike Allen's poetry, collecting almost fifty speculative poems published over the last ten years in a variety of venues, several of which have been nominated for or have won the Rhysling Award. In addition to the quality of the material, Allen puts his well-deserved reputation as a fantastic editor of the fantastic to work here, organizing these sometimes very disparate pieces into a coherent whole, worthy of the term oeuvre..."

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The Clevelandpoetics Blog says:

"In this bitter season of negative degree weather, Mike Allen's The Journey to Kailash is a wonderful book to accompany a pot of tea before [of] a smoldering fire..."

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Norilana Books presents The Journey to Kailash by Rhysling Award-winning poet Mike Allen (time_shark), a vibrant collection that gathers 57 poems that explore regions sometimes whimsical, sometimes terrifying, always off the beaten trail.

Sometimes drawing from mythology, sometimes extrapolating bizarre futures, and not at all afraid to blend the two, Mike Allen's poetry still addresses universal themes of love, loss and longing with candor and even humor.


The Journey to Kailash by Mike Allen



"Mike Allen pours everything he's got onto his poem-canvases. Mythologies, science-fiction scenarios, private memories and desires, and untestable ideas crowd and overlay one another upon the pages as if flung from an overloaded brush. Here is a vividly vertiginous collection of poems, all fun and mind-games."
—Fred Chappell

"Mike Allen is a poetic Shiva, whirling his thousand limbs to snatch gold from thin air and create these epics-in-miniature, each with its own metallic sheen."
—Catherynne M. Valente

The Journey to Kailash by Mike Allen
Imprint: Curiosities
Trade Hardcover
June 1, 2008
Retail Price:
$19.95 USD - £13.50 GBP
ISBN-13: 978-1-934648-44-5
ISBN-10: 1-934648-44-2
136 pages
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Norilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 160 books in print, Norilana Books specializes in beautifully packaged hardcover and trade paperback classics of world literature, quality fantasy, science fiction, romance and women's fiction, and young adult titles.
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The Journey to Kailash by Mike Allen

Coming June 2008 from the new Curiosities imprint...

Click on image to see full-size... Note, this is the ARC edition, not the final cover.

Cover design by Mike Allen (time_shark).

We have acquired THE JOURNEY TO KAILASH, a poetry collection by Rhysling award winning poet, writer, and editor Mike Allen to be released from the Curiosities Imprint in June 2008.