THE SPRINGHOUSE 3
by Joyce Wilson

Poetry Porch Publications

Published March 8, 2023
Poetry, 64 pages
$20.00 paper
ISBN 979-8-88955-715-9

Cover: Dark Banks, a painting by Allegra Printz, oil on canvas, 53 by 34 inches (private collection).

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See the review by Joan Soble at her blog So Already

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The Springhouse 3 includes the poems from The Springhouse (2010) plus twenty new poems.
It replaces To the Springhouse (2022), which is sold out.

Praise for The Springhouse:

Joyce Wilson speaks in her poems with quiet authority, taking us memorably into the world of childhood, with its crises, disappointments, and joys. “The Springhouse” (an engaging point of entry), “The Errand,” and “Moving Out” are among those poems I can’t forget—they recapture perfectly a small girl’s-eye view. Readers will be struck, too, by Wilson’s skill in observing creatures closely and keeping them alive in words: a walking stick, a turtle, mayflies, chickens, a dead bee. I particularly love “The Turtle,” “a shining object waiting to be found.” This slim collection delivers generous pleasures, as the best poems always do.     —X. J. Kennedy, author of In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus

Many of the poems in The Springhouse are beautiful, some with a Frostian weight and specificity, and I much enjoyed the detailed knowledge about birds, amphibians, and insects, as well as the scrupulous attention to form and the variety of meters. The poems about the three sisters, mother, and father are poignant and restrained; they avoid self-pity, condemnation, and sentimentality, but their feelings run deep. Children in this book (in too deep water, the refrigerator box) face problematic spaces both physical and emotional, while members of the animal kingdom seem to achieve more freedom.
—Rachel Hadas, author of Poems for Camilla

Like the springhouse that gives her collection its title, Joyce Wilson’s work offers both bracing freshness and mystery. In her poems about animals and insects, she honors the beauty of the natural world; and in her moving poems about her sister, she acknowledges its pain. Wilson richly rewards her readers’ attention by her own patient fidelity to her subjects.
—Timothy Steele, author of Toward the Winter Solstice

    Joyce Wilson editor of The Poetry Porch, a literary magazine on the Internet, which has been online since 1997. She has taught English at Boston University and Suffolk University. Her poems have appeared in literary journals such as Alabama Literary Review, Ibbetson Street Magazine, Wilderness House, Poetry Ireland, and Mezzo Cammin. Other book publications include Take and Receive, The Etymology of Spruce, and The Need for a Bridge.

    Author photograph by John Goldie