Tubbables book launch with John Roche! A very special Poetry Playhouse Publications event!

Saturday, April 20, 2024 2 to 4 pm in person at Jules’ Poetry Playhouse in beautiful Placitas, New Mexico

Free - author reading and book signing - refreshments - books for sale and pick up your preorders

Hosted by Jules Nyquist

Tubbables - a new poetry book by John Roche

Front cover illustration by Anna Vanessa Latzer

Cover design by Denise Weaver Ross

Double Tubbable

Tubbable, 1920s synonym for washable:  tub + able (fabrics)

Whites and darks in the tub tubbable

Suds and spray and toil and bubble

Pound on rock or play washboard trouble

Anna Livia Plurabelle gossips double

Splashes and sprays and tells oh tells does lovely Annabelle

I Stole an Eclipse

I stole an eclipse today

Rode a snapping turtle

all the way to San Luis Obispo

Climbed an agave stalk taller than an oak

higher than the campanile

Held up the sun with my BB gun

Put it in my back pocket

Ate a tangerine

Kicked a soccer ball to the moon

Listened to the Music of the Spheres

Watched as it ricocheted through the galaxy

Rode vampire fish sailing celestial seas

Hummed L’Éclair de Lune

and composed a sonnet

An original tour de force combining astute humor and a bit of badinage which does not betray a deeper level of meaning. The whimsical cover prepares you for quite the laundry list of our 21st century that will be hung up in the poems enclosed. All three sections combine John Roche's sensitive eye, with love of language play to provide the reader with refreshing clin d'oeils, whether it be his Irish ancestors, his knowledge of poets and the art and craft they practice, or a welcome commentary, on our contemporary times. A must read, that will lift your spirits. 

-- Kitty Jospé, author of Whispers of Perhaps

John Roche