Molly Peacock writes, “Tucked inside the verb ‘converse’ is ‘verse,’ of course. Conversari, the Latin root, means ‘to turn about with.’ The sense of lines walking and turning in a poem echoes the idea of walking and talking together.” In A Turn Around the Mansion Grounds, Molly Peacock and Amy M. Clark present sixteen paired poems followed by a conversation about the poems, the collaboration, and the craft of poetry. The book is third in Slapering Hol Press’s series of limited-edition collaborative chapbooks featuring the work of an established woman poet alongside an emerging woman poet who was mentored by the former.

Cover art by Kara Kosaka