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The Angel of Coincidence

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Inkfish Press

The Angel of Coincidence

Poems by Tim Moder

Inkfish Press, February 21 2025

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Praise for The Angel of Coincidence

In Tim Moder’s The Angel of Coincidence, every poem offers the reader a whole world to live in, with fresh, vivid images in each line. Moder is deeply in tune with the natural world, and his poems bristle with fields full of “cows…waiting to burger” and rivers “where fish..muscle silent arias from perfectly shaped O’s.” But the beating heart of this collection is the blend of love and grief that pulses throughout. The speakers in Moder’s poems, “walk…a three mile blizzard on a sharp night for a goodnight kiss” and love “like the fallen angels, face first, on fire.” The Angel of Coincidence invites readers to yearn and grieve in equal measure, with poems that can’t be forgotten.

— Frances Klein, author of Text Messages From The Angel Gabriel

The Angel of Coincidence unblinkingly faces grief, loss, and remembered love with grace and a weary, but determined, resolve to continue seeing the beauty in the world. Tim Moder’s poems resonate with poignant language and imagery. For Moder, memory serves to tame the pain and provides a template for looking ahead.

— Marc Meierkort Managing Editor, Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose Columbia College Chicago

The Angel of Coincidence sweeps us through many journeys. We lie between lovers in the intimacy of their bed then pan out to the open road of their lives. We explore the natural world, from the closeness of a bird’s nest to the vastness of water. And we travel through mythological realms of time. Each journey accompanied by the lush economy Moder brings to each poem.

— François Bereaud, author of San Diego Stories

The Angel of Coincidence is a beautiful, longing, sexy, powerful, tactile poetry collection that is a gift. Hold your heart or these poems will sweep it away. Love poems are to my mind the hardest kind of poems to write—these will pierce you. Catch this: How you skip reunions, satisfied with unreported accolades pictures taken from obituaries, but later ask me to break into the school with you to visit homeroom lockers and dance in four/five time on newly waxed herringbone tile floors. Catch the verses, hold them close, imagine yourself in them—now your heart grows warmer and stronger.

— Maud Lavin, author of Cut with the Kitchen Knife, a New York Times Notable Book; Silences, Ohio; Mermaids and Lazy Activists; 4-H alumna and a Guggenheim Fellow

Tim Moder

Tim Moder is a poet from northern Wisconsin. He is an enrolled member of The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. He lives with his cat in a house that is too big. His poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Cutthroat, South Florida Poetry Journal, One Art, and others. He is the author of the chapbooks All True Heavens (Alien Buddha) and American Parade Routes (Seven Kitchens). His poems have been nominated for Best Of The Net and The Pushcart Prize. Find him at timmoder.com

Inkfish Press

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Inkfish Press

Cornwall in Short

A Collection of Cornish Writing

Edited by Kate Horsley and P.T. McAllister

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PRAISE FOR CORNWALL IN SHORT

“Quality storytelling from terrific writers. The collection has ghosts and storms, love challenged and rewarded, triumphs and heartaches, ancient Cornish traditions, vivid characters, wild seas and lands and skies. I jumped from one story to the next, happy for each adventure.”––Martin Goodman, BMA Book award winning author of Suffer & Survive and On Bended Knees

“What a joy to read a collection of short stories with such freshness and sense of adventure!” –Mick Jackson, Booker and Whitbread shortlisted author of The Underground Man and Ten Sorry Tales

“A compelling collection in which each story captures something different about the dynamic interaction between people and places.” —Professor Lynne Pearce, author of Drivetime and Romance Writing

“This brilliantly diverse collection beckons the reader back and forth over the Tamar, in behind closed doors and down unfamiliar street passages, over to fenced-off mineshafts and shallow waters where loss is confronted and the tantalising lure of escapism awaits.” —Aspier Magazine

Authors in this Anthology: Rebecca Johnson Bista, Anastasia Gammon, Tim Hannigan, Kate Horsley, Clare Howdle, Adrian Markle, Tim Martindale, P. T. McAllister, Rob Magnuson Smith, Mark Plummer, Katherine Stansfield, Jackie Taylor, Karen Taylor, Shelley Trower, Emma Timpany, Tom Vowler, Ella Walsworth-Bell, Elaine Ruth White and Becky Wildman.

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Our second edition celebrated Cornish writers and artists and was so lovely to assemble that we decided to release the prose from it as a paper anthology, with generous support from the Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Memorial Fund Award.

On the rocks at Carne, flotsam washes in alongside memories of lost love. A family picnic at Lostwithiel leads to the rediscovery of ancient Cornish language stories. In The Three Ferrets at St Ives, a weary barmaid dreams of sailing away on a yacht with a dubious stranger, and a man in search of love is tricked by the Queen of Fey at Rough Tor.

This captivating anthology showcases Cornwall’s most exciting contemporary writers, both established and emerging. This is an amazing range of new short stories and non-fiction that makes Cornwall feel fresh and unexpected; writing that engages with folklore, history, and landscape in an emotionally compelling way, celebrating a love of Cornish history and wildlife. Moving through time and space with each story, you’ll find contemporary retellings of folklore, compelling memoirs, and flash fictions that brim with tension and discovery.

Cover Design: The work of our cover artist is rooted in the Cornish landscape. Mark Holman’s creative practice draws on parallel lives as a horticulturalist and visual artist. His beautiful ink drawing of a foxglove growing on the coast of Marazion reflects his work on sustainability and the entanglement of humans and plants within the environment.

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