Caleb Parkin Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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PhD Candidate🌿Bristol City Poet, 20-22🦄 'This Fruiting Body' @NineArchesPress 🍄'The Coin' @brokensleep 🪙biodiversity🦋writing for wellbeing🐩he/they🌈

Guideline: Preventive Chemotherapy to Control Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections in At-Risk Population Groups
World Health Organization
"Humans produce about 1.5 ounces of formaldehyde a day as a normal part of our metabolism and inhale approximately 0.0007 ounces at concentrations equivalenet to the World Health Organization (WHO) Indoor Air Quality Guideline." https://t.co/7pdpVmy3jh
Paperback, 2018
$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age
Nicole Seymour
@genevievegdn @JoanPassey Also, 'Bad Environmentalism' by Nicole Seymour too, which builds brilliantly on that essay. Also also, watching this thread with interest!
Paperback, 2018
$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Postcolonial Love Poem: Poems
Natalie Diaz
Reading 'Postcolonial Love Poem' by Natalie Diaz & had to put the book down for a moment after this one 🤯 'Manhattan Is a Lenape Word' https://t.co/n0CNle7vuC.
Paperback, 2020
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
In the Language of My Captor
Shane McCrae
ChatGPT suggested the following... "To the Queerest Joy" by Andrea Gibson "Celebration" by Danez Smith "The Alphabet of Your Queer Joy" by Meg Day "In the Language of My Captor" by Shane McCrae "Joyful Noise: An Anthem" by Daniel K. Isaac and Joe Tracz
Hardcover, 2017
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Annihilation: A Novel (10th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff VanderMeer
@liambatespoet @jeffvandermeer Oh & it's that Jeff Vandermeer! I just read a brilliant essay by @3LVVIA on female mystics, mysticism & Annihilation! In her book 'Death by Landscape', which I heartily recommend. Strange research loops...
Paperback, 2024
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
Mary Ruefle
"Don't be less of a flower, but could you be more of a stone at the same time? Could you have sympathetic feelings in more than one direction? And can you think at the same time?" - from, 'On Sentimentality' in 'Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures' by Mary Ruefle. https://t.co/dUgFcjohQq
Paperback, 2012
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
Mark Doty
Had to look out this excerpt from Mark Doty's 'Still Life with Oysters and Lemon' as it's been bouncing around my mind lately. Impeccably expressed: "Say what you see and you experience yourself through your style of saying and seeing" 😍 https://t.co/b6EKnth155
Paperback, 2002
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Love: Graph Paper Notebook, 6x9 Inch, 120 pages
Playful Press
@Anna_Selby @gumbo_amando @KatieHourigan1 @AlysFowler @hazel_press Ooh especially love 'Soil', what a masterclass in how to extend that sonic similarity into something playful, elegant & moving. Gorgeous. (Saved for future reference!)
Paperback, 2019
$6.99$3.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hold Your Own: Poems
Kate Tempest
@JosieAlfordPoet @PeteTheTemp @salenagodden @LivTorc Excellent yes, was thinking of protest rally poems - having seen Kae Tempest on a climate march some years back. V powerful, they felt like a shaman.
Paperback, 2015
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Metamorphosis
Kafka
@Natteitler It was called Animal Inspiration & the Inspiration was, unsurprisingly, Kafka's 'Metamorphosis' 🪲
Paperback, 2020
$10.97$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book