Let’s Get Reacquainted
In other words - abiding curiosity, finding connections, commitment to preserving this post-industrial earth garden - the present, the past and the imagined possible .
Electric Boat
"Search and you will not find a new book of poetry as well written, as well produced, as well designed, as Paul McDonough’s Electric Boat. It is a real book, fundamental to our literature in that it is atomic in the way the philosopher Michel Serres in The Birth of Physics describes atoms: “Atoms, as we know, are letters, or are like letters. Their interconnection constitutes the tissue of the body, in the same way as letters form words, empty space, sentences and texts”. Although the book is atomic, it is not radioactive: hold it in hand, feel its heft, it is weighty, two-handed, open it and scan the graphics as they reveal and relate to the poems. In a time of light and fly away verse, take note of this: Electric Boat is heavy, dense enough to keep you grounded." —Joe Napora, Bullhead Books
"The poems have the sea edge to them, the rime, the flotsam, the hurt of working in the open, the science of something ever larger than us. It isn’t simply the poems a poet wants to make, but that is essential, and more the overall aura. It is the aura missing from most poets and music today. They don’t live in their work, and your book has it, along with some fright to what you are living with."
"The photos, by the way, are essential to the text to swim the mind and eye, and it does."
— Bob Arnold, Longhouse Poetry and Publishers
Longhouse 2025. Tri-fold pamphlet. Seven (7) shipyard poems with graphics. One hundred (100) copies.
Bullhead Books 2024. Chapbook 48pp. Nineteen (19) shipyard poems. Limited Edition