David Olsen's Unfolding Origami (80pp, 2015) won the Cinnamon Press Poetry Collection Award.
For more details on Unfolding Origami and how to obtain a copy, see the Books tab at the menu above.
Jan Fortune, publisher of Cinnamon Press, describes this new collection this way:
Adroit and affective, David Olsen’s poetry explores liminal states and identity in a confident, graceful voice. His lucid style and keen observation exhibits depth and precision. Images are delicate and metaphors are controlled; resonant with humanity. There is poignancy here, but never sentimentality; always maintaining the tension of the poetic form. Insightful, affectionate, and always accessible,
this is an accomplished, mature and long awaited full-length debut.
David's second full-length poetry collection, Past Imperfect, is forthcoming from Cinnamon Press in summer 2018.
David's four chapbooks are in print from US poetry publishers: Exit Wounds (2017), Sailing to Atlantis (2013), New World Elegies (2011), and Greatest Hits 1983-2000 (2001).
David’s poems have appeared in more than 100 North American and European anthologies and literary journal titles.
Since 2008 he has placed work in Britain’s Acumen,
Envoi, Poetry News, Dream Catcher, The Interpreter’s House, Orbis, Frogmore Papers, Prole, South, Proletarian Poetry, London Journal of Fiction, The Journal, Lunar Poetry, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Northampton Poetry Review, SAW Poetry, Morphrog, Assent, Poetry Nottingham, Oxford Magazine, Gold Dust, The Stare's Nest, and more than ten anthologies, including those from
Cinnamon Press (6), Templar Poetry (2), Belgrave Press, Writing Magazine, and University
of London’s Human Rights Consortium.
Since 2012 he has placed work in Blueline, Lunch Ticket, Vermont Literary Review, Pedestal,
Bloodroot Literary Magazine, The Aurorean, Pinyon, Pilgrimage, Turtle Island Quarterly,
California State Poetry Society Poetry Letter, Plath Profiles, Scintilla, Strong Voices, Touch:
The Journal of Healing, Poetry and Business, Cyclamens and Swords, Ash & Bones, Devilfish
Review, Wordgathering, Pyrokinection, District Lit, and anthologies from Main Street Rag (2),
Concrete Wolf, Mutabilis, WaterWood, Blue Lyra, Origami Poems Project, San Francisco
Peace and Hope (2), Kind of a Hurricane Press (3), and Medusa's Laugh Press (US);
Salzburg Poetry Review (Austria); The French Literary Review (France); ROPES (Ireland);
The Deronda Review (Israel/ US); and anthologies from Voices Israel (Israel/US) and
Sense (Netherlands).
Details of publications, prizes, events, and plays appear in the Biography
and other pages accessible via the headings above.
For more details on Unfolding Origami and how to obtain a copy, see the Books tab at the menu above.
Jan Fortune, publisher of Cinnamon Press, describes this new collection this way:
Adroit and affective, David Olsen’s poetry explores liminal states and identity in a confident, graceful voice. His lucid style and keen observation exhibits depth and precision. Images are delicate and metaphors are controlled; resonant with humanity. There is poignancy here, but never sentimentality; always maintaining the tension of the poetic form. Insightful, affectionate, and always accessible,
this is an accomplished, mature and long awaited full-length debut.
David's second full-length poetry collection, Past Imperfect, is forthcoming from Cinnamon Press in summer 2018.
David's four chapbooks are in print from US poetry publishers: Exit Wounds (2017), Sailing to Atlantis (2013), New World Elegies (2011), and Greatest Hits 1983-2000 (2001).
David’s poems have appeared in more than 100 North American and European anthologies and literary journal titles.
Since 2008 he has placed work in Britain’s Acumen,
Envoi, Poetry News, Dream Catcher, The Interpreter’s House, Orbis, Frogmore Papers, Prole, South, Proletarian Poetry, London Journal of Fiction, The Journal, Lunar Poetry, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Northampton Poetry Review, SAW Poetry, Morphrog, Assent, Poetry Nottingham, Oxford Magazine, Gold Dust, The Stare's Nest, and more than ten anthologies, including those from
Cinnamon Press (6), Templar Poetry (2), Belgrave Press, Writing Magazine, and University
of London’s Human Rights Consortium.
Since 2012 he has placed work in Blueline, Lunch Ticket, Vermont Literary Review, Pedestal,
Bloodroot Literary Magazine, The Aurorean, Pinyon, Pilgrimage, Turtle Island Quarterly,
California State Poetry Society Poetry Letter, Plath Profiles, Scintilla, Strong Voices, Touch:
The Journal of Healing, Poetry and Business, Cyclamens and Swords, Ash & Bones, Devilfish
Review, Wordgathering, Pyrokinection, District Lit, and anthologies from Main Street Rag (2),
Concrete Wolf, Mutabilis, WaterWood, Blue Lyra, Origami Poems Project, San Francisco
Peace and Hope (2), Kind of a Hurricane Press (3), and Medusa's Laugh Press (US);
Salzburg Poetry Review (Austria); The French Literary Review (France); ROPES (Ireland);
The Deronda Review (Israel/ US); and anthologies from Voices Israel (Israel/US) and
Sense (Netherlands).
Details of publications, prizes, events, and plays appear in the Biography
and other pages accessible via the headings above.
