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Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Publications

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By Elizabeth Madox Roberts

Flood, edited and with an introduction by Vicki Barker (2012).

Roberts' unfinished novel about the 1937 Louisville Flood was posthumously published by the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society in 2012. The 96 page manuscript tells the story of Joel Marsh, a 26 year old farm boy from Roberts’ native Washington County, Kentucky, who travels to flooded Louisville in order to rescue his sister, Tansy, and her two children who live in the hard-hit Portland neighborhood in the west end of the city.

Critical Essay Anthologies

Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Essays of Reassessment & Reclamation, edited by H.R. Stoneback and Steven Florczyk (2008).

This is the first book-length collection of critical essays to deal with the life and work of Elizabeth Madox Roberts. It is also the first book of any kind, in many years, to be devoted to the study of Roberts. Order yours today direct from the publisher Wind Publications. Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Essays of Discovery and Recovery. Edited by H. R. Stoneback, Nicole Camastra, and Steven Florczyk. "This volume is the second of the two books devoted to Elizabeth Madox Roberts to be published in the same year--annus mirabilis! Before the appearance of these two volumes, more than four decades had elapsed since the last book-length critical study of Roberts was published. In many ways, this book serves as a companion piece to its immediate predecessor, Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Essays of Reassessment and Reclamation. We will not repeat what was said in the introduction to that volume regarding the history of the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society, from whose annual conferences most of the essays in the present study emanate. It will suffice here to note that the publication of both these landmark volumes signals the celebration, in 2008, of the tenth anniversary of the Roberts Society." (from the introduction) View front cover View back cover Included in this book is new fiction by Roberts (fragments from Sallie May, "The Prophet" and notes On Poetry), and critical essays by H. R. Stoneback, William H. Slavick, Wade Hall, Vicki Barker, William Boyle, Nicole Camastra, Damian Carpenter, Steven Florczyk, Angela Green, Tina Iraca, Emily Kane, Brad McDuffie, Jennings Mace, Gregg Neikirk, Matthew Nickel, Erin Presley, Katy Shores, Nicole Boucher Spottke and Nicole Valentino, James Stamant, John Weatherford, and Gerald Preher.

Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Prospect & Retrospect, edited by H. R. Stoneback, William Boyle, and Matthew Nickel (2012).

Prospect & Retrospect is the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society's second published collection of Roberts criticism. In addition to scholarship that developed out of the EMRS, this book also anthologizes three classic essays that were presented at the 1981 Elizabeth Madox Roberts Centenary Conference.

Included in this book are never before published poem manuscripts and fragments and critical essays by Ruel Foster, Leon Driskell, Woodridge Spears, Jane Eblen Keller, H. R. Stoneback, Gisele Sigal, William Slavick, Vicki Barker, Goretti Vianney-Benca, Lyndsey Brown, Amanda Capelli, Jessica Conti, Allen Jones, Christopher Lawrence, Natalie Lozinski-Veach, Sarah Marshall, Adam Neikirk, Matthew Nickel, Kelli Palinkas-Greer, Sharon Peelor, Alex Shakespeare, James Stamant, and Jared Young.

Keenly Aware of the Ceremonies of Place: Essays on Elizabeth Madox Roberts, edited by Matthew Nickel, Jessica Nickel, and H. R. Stoneback (2017).

Our latest collection, Keenly Aware of the Ceremonies of Place, displays the diversity of our organization, offering essays from seasoned Roberts scholars as well as essays of discovery from students who are still moved—almost a century later—to respond to Roberts’ prose and poetry. The title of this collection reflects a sense of what we have long been cultivating in the work of the Roberts Society: a keen awareness of the sense of ceremony and the Sense of Place in the landscapes and inscapes of the fiction and poetry of Elizabeth Madox Roberts.

Includes essays by H.R. Stoneback, Frances Kearney, Matthew Nickel, Lyndey Brown, Gregory Bruno, Peter Camilleri, Damian A. Carpenter, Mickey D'Addario, Emily Halbing, Eleanor Hough, Evan Hulick, Nathan Lee, Katy L. Leedy, Adam Neikirk, Jessica M. Nickel, Christopher Paolini, Daniel J. Pizappi, Gisèle Sigal, and Zach Stewart, along with three previously unpublished manuscript fragments by Elizabeth Madox Roberts: "The White Tree," "[Billy Mitchell]," and "Notes from the State Reformatory."

Creative Work

Kentucky: Poets of Place, edited by Matthew Nickel (2012).

A collection of original poetry by EMRS members, associates, and well-known Kentucky poets.

Contributors include: Wendell Berry, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Robert Penn Warren, H. R. Stoneback, Dave Smith, Matthew Haughton, Ricardo Nazario y Colon, Ron Smith, Vivian Shipley, Jessica Conti, Gregg Neikirk, Shawn Rubenfeld, Chris Paolini, Chris Lawrence, Matthew Nickel, and others.

Coming Home: A Vision of Elizabeth Madox Roberts, by Gregg Neikirk (2015).

Coming Home is a play envisioning Elizabeth Madox Roberts and "about the love that Elizabeth Madox Roberts held for her 'Little Country.'"

H. R. Stoneback writes in the foreword the following: "This play has something for everybody, has much to offer both rooted autochthons, that is, those “sprung from the land itself,” and displaced anachthons, those seeking a vision of coming home. Neikirk cultivates this terroir admirably while suffusing the play with an overarching vision of home as the world that a writer creates in her writing. To say that Coming Home: A Vision of Elizabeth Madox Roberts belongs on the bookshelves of every Roberts aficionado and scholar is to state the obvious. It also belongs in the library of everyone who knows about leaving home and coming home, everyone who has ever thought or dreamed of writing home."

Kentucky Writers: The Deus Loci and the Lyrical Landscape, edited by Matthew Nickel and Daniel Pizappi (2016).

The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society's second collection of Kentucky inspired poems and prose.

Contributors include: Wendell Berry, Okla Elliott, Chad M. Horn, Maurice Manning, Charles Semones, Vivian Shipley, Dave Smith, H. R. Stoneback, and others.

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