The Poisoner's Garden & Others

Selected Poems

A Poisonous Flower, an Evil Doll, a Well of Memory and Dream

110 pages in print. Award-winning author of supernatural and gothic fiction, Douglas Clegg gathers 22 of his poems for the first time ever into The Poisoner’s Garden & Others, ranging from those with a dark gothic edge to rhymes of whimsy with strange twists. Plus a Foreword and Afterword by the author.

Included in this Volume:

1. The Poisoner’s Garden
2. Why My Doll is Evil
3. The Salt of Undone Collars
4. Swimming in Underwear
5. Medea in Transit
6. My Younger Self
7. Toast to the Damned
8. Cenote of Dreams
9. October Wind
10. On All Hallow’s Eve
11. Song of Lupercalia
12. For St. Valentine’s Day
13. On the Ides of March
14. Birthday
15. Winter Solstice
16. The Christmas Smite
17. Elegy on a Dead Frog Found in Swimming Pool
18. At the Station in the Rain
19. Still Life
20. That Hardscrabble Life You’re In
21. Assam Tea
22. The Crime