COMING NOVEMBER 15, 2025!
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Will this be my own last season on earth, and if so, how might I best use the time? These uneasy existential questions—more urgent for all of us in a time of climate dislocation and derangement—underlie David Lloyd’s crucial new collection. From its first poem, where a prophet, dazzled by the premise of transcendence, blinds himself to the promise of the miraculous world he inhabits, The Last Season testifies to our oblivious ecological culpability, our blinkered ecological self-centeredness. But these poems also acknowledge our embeddedness, our interwovenness, in a world that “heaves with beauty,” if we can open our eyes to it, leave it “unmolested.” At once scathing and chastened, sardonic and ecstatic, David Lloyd’s The Last Season grips, challenges, heartens. Here’s “gold without price,” “the psalmist’s stormy wind”—prophecy for our time remaining.
—Nathalie Anderson, author of Stain and Rough
ISBN 978-1-7329012-8-5
2025$18.95
Poet, fiction writer, and translator David Lloyd is the author of twelve books, including the poetry collections The Everyday Apocalypse, The Gospel According to Frank, Warriors, and Shared Origins: a collaboration between three poets (with Mike Jenkins and David Annwn). He published three books of fiction: Boys: Stories and a Novella, Over the Line (a novel), and The Moving of the Water (stories). His edited anthologies—focused on Welsh poetry in English—include Imagined Greetings: Poetic Engagements with R. S. Thomas, Other Land: Contemporary Poems on Wales and Welsh-American Experience, Writing on the Edge: Interviews with Writers and Editors of Wales, and The Urgency of Identity: Contemporary English-Language Poetry from Wales. His poems, translations, and stories have appeared in many journals, including Crab Orchard Review, Denver Quarterly, Image, Massachusetts Review, Poetry Wales, and Virginia Quarterly Review. In 2000, he received the Poetry Society of America’s Robert H. Winner Award, judged by W. D. Snodgrass. In 2022 he received the inaugural Paula Svonkin Creative Arts Award. He received two Fulbright Scholar awards: at Bangor University, Wales (2001), and at Cardiff University, Wales (2022).
David also publishes literary criticism on modern and contemporary poetry, with essays appearing in many journals, including Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, International Journal of Welsh Writing in English, Paideuma: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poets, Poetry Salzburg Review, and Twentieth Century Literature. His PhD in literature and MA in creative writing are from Brown University, and he is Professor of English at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY. He is the son of parents who emigrated from Wales, and he grew up in the Welsh-American community in Utica, NY. https://www.davidlloydwriter.com/
COMING NOVEMBER 15, 2025!
Support publication of this title by becoming a patron, now through October 1st! In return for your $50 patron donation, your name will be listed on the colophon page of the book, and you will receive a signed copy by mail once it is published in November. Click the button below to donate now. Please note: our website will initially charge you shipping and sales tax, but we will refund you for those charges.
Regular price pre-orders will open for this title on October 2nd.
Will this be my own last season on earth, and if so, how might I best use the time? These uneasy existential questions—more urgent for all of us in a time of climate dislocation and derangement—underlie David Lloyd’s crucial new collection. From its first poem, where a prophet, dazzled by the premise of transcendence, blinds himself to the promise of the miraculous world he inhabits, The Last Season testifies to our oblivious ecological culpability, our blinkered ecological self-centeredness. But these poems also acknowledge our embeddedness, our interwovenness, in a world that “heaves with beauty,” if we can open our eyes to it, leave it “unmolested.” At once scathing and chastened, sardonic and ecstatic, David Lloyd’s The Last Season grips, challenges, heartens. Here’s “gold without price,” “the psalmist’s stormy wind”—prophecy for our time remaining.
—Nathalie Anderson, author of Stain and Rough
ISBN 978-1-7329012-8-5
2025$18.95
Poet, fiction writer, and translator David Lloyd is the author of twelve books, including the poetry collections The Everyday Apocalypse, The Gospel According to Frank, Warriors, and Shared Origins: a collaboration between three poets (with Mike Jenkins and David Annwn). He published three books of fiction: Boys: Stories and a Novella, Over the Line (a novel), and The Moving of the Water (stories). His edited anthologies—focused on Welsh poetry in English—include Imagined Greetings: Poetic Engagements with R. S. Thomas, Other Land: Contemporary Poems on Wales and Welsh-American Experience, Writing on the Edge: Interviews with Writers and Editors of Wales, and The Urgency of Identity: Contemporary English-Language Poetry from Wales. His poems, translations, and stories have appeared in many journals, including Crab Orchard Review, Denver Quarterly, Image, Massachusetts Review, Poetry Wales, and Virginia Quarterly Review. In 2000, he received the Poetry Society of America’s Robert H. Winner Award, judged by W. D. Snodgrass. In 2022 he received the inaugural Paula Svonkin Creative Arts Award. He received two Fulbright Scholar awards: at Bangor University, Wales (2001), and at Cardiff University, Wales (2022).
David also publishes literary criticism on modern and contemporary poetry, with essays appearing in many journals, including Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, International Journal of Welsh Writing in English, Paideuma: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poets, Poetry Salzburg Review, and Twentieth Century Literature. His PhD in literature and MA in creative writing are from Brown University, and he is Professor of English at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY. He is the son of parents who emigrated from Wales, and he grew up in the Welsh-American community in Utica, NY. https://www.davidlloydwriter.com/
