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Epic Rites Press was established in 2008 with the mission to build the best printed publications on the planet. To date ERP has released eleven full-length books, two chapbooks, eleven magazines, and fifteen limited edition broadsides. And we’re just getting warmed up!

Every Epic Rites Press publication is proudly printed in Canada on one hundred percent uncoated recycled paper.

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DON’T LET ANYBODY
by John Yamrus

New From Epic Rites Press

Can’t Stop Now!

Poetry by John Yamrus
136 pages
$17.50 + shipping
ISBN: 978-1-926860-06-0

Epic Rites Press, March 2011

“Terse profundity would be the phrase I would use were someone to pin me down and force me to describe this work by John Yamrus... This is poetry of short lines and simple wisdom, there is a touch of the Far East about the structure and minimalist philosophy that underpins them; there is no surreal baroque parade of language, these are sticks arranged subtly against a white wall.”
– Zack Wilson, author of Lescar

“I read John’s newest book to the end in one sitting, then began rereading. His words get in your head... you can’t stop with one poem, that simply won't do. It’s like a bag of your favorite flavor of potato chips or that first beer on Friday night after a damn hard week. You sink in to this book and devour it, you savor it. You sit back and wonder... why haven’t I written that before?”
– Diana Rose, Write and Radio

Coming Soon from Epic Rites Press

Crunked

Poetry by Jack Henry
113 pages
$17.50 plus shipping
ISBN 978-1-926860-01-5

Epic Rites Press, May 2011

“Jack manages to totally avoid the drug fancier’s dreadful tendency to whine like a bitch about drugs, to blame them for a personal weakness, to develop self-righteousness and self-pity to an unbearable extent. He is innocent of this, and the strength of the poetry is that there is very little attribution of blame. This is just the way things are.”
– David McLean, author of Cadaver’s Dance

“… I’ve been reading through Crunked, and I’m really, really impressed. You know, I think that you may be the poet laureate of meth culture. I’m not being funny – I think you really captured the surreal and extreme nature of the way of the speed freak, and that the poems veer between being heartbreakingly sad and really, blackly funny. It’s really good stuff, very powerful.”
– Tony O’Neill, author of Down and Out on Murder Mile

We’re No Butchers

A play by Rob Plath
40 pages, 8.5” x 11”
$10 + shipping
ISBN: 978-1-926860-07-7

Epic Rites Press, 2011

“Rob Plath exudes divine madness. He is Quasimodo and the Phantom of the Opera slamming the same keyboard.”
– Dan Fante, author of The Boiler Room

“Plath's play leaves the gate at warp speed and never once looks back. This look at the seamy underside of life is a revelation. ”
– John Yamrus, author of Can’t Stop Now!

“Bumps, drunks, egoists, racists, creationists, darwinists – they all live under one roof... and they’re loud.

Don’t talk politics with your crazy family.
Don’t push people’s buttons.
Don’t fall asleep with a smoke in yer drunk yap.
Oh, and don’t misread a book.

‘Cuz if you do, you’ll have a gang of one-dimensional freaks screaming at you – a gang at home with Beckett, Tarantino and the boys from A Clockwork Orange. And they’ll let you know, in no uncertain terms, amid a flurry of shattered ashtrays, broken angels and mind-numbing f-bombs, that they’re no butchers. And in the end, you’ll find out who’s entitled to what, be it religion or meatballs... or maybe a little cheese on the pasta.”
– R L Raymond, www.pigeonbike.com

Frostbitten

Poetry by Mark Walton
103 pages
$17.50 plus shipping
ISBN 978-1-926860-00-8

Epic Rites Press, 2011

“I found Frostbitten lucid, harrowing and compelling. It’s a cogent and passionate first collection shot through with hard-won self-knowledge.”
– Paul Magrs, author of The Bride That Time Forgot

“These words pulse. The poems in Frostbitten radiate with an urgency that forces the reader’s eye into devouring page after page, skipping from the flushes of love through to heartache and fear.”
– Andrew Taylor, author of Poetry and Skin Cream