Full Press Catalog
The Full Press Catalog is the entire Loblolly Press library in a single order — every book we have in print, gathered in one place. 14 titles of poetry, short fiction, and anthology work, rooted in the American South. Priced at $199, you save $73 dollars over purchasing these titles individually.
This is the whole shelf: debut collections and second books, chapbooks and full-length collections, a full-color anthology built for Hurricane Helene recovery, and the short-story collections that stretch what Southern literature can hold. Poems set in Appalachian hollers and South Carolina watersheds; stories of early-internet adolescence and small-town faith; a ninety-two-year-old poet writing from the steady light of long attention. Read it straight through, or hand titles out to the readers in your life.
What's inside — 14 titles:
- HABITATS — Garrett Ashley
- OF WATER NEVER CEASING — Kristin Entler
- SLOW FIRE — Spencer K. M. Brown
- PRELUDES & OTHER POEMS — Earl J. Wilcox
- Distant Relations — Cheryl Whitehead
- If Lost — Clint Bowman
- The Computer Room — Emma Ensley
- Proud Roads: Poems in the Aftermath of Hurricane Helene — Kelly Riedesel
- What the River Was — Andrew Mack
- The Surfacing of Joy — Earl J. Wilcox (PDF download - out of print)
- A Field Guide to North American Trees — Garrett Ashley
- Weekend Revival — Andrew Mack
- Beasts of Chase — Andrew Mack
- Understory: A Full-Color Anthology for Hurricane Helene Recovery — various writers
Every order supports the writers directly: at Loblolly Press, we split profits with our authors once production costs are recovered. Small by design, made with care in Asheville, NC.
Inside the Full Catalog
HABITATS$22.00
HABITATS traces life across Southern ecosystems and domestic spaces — coastal waterways, pine forests, sweltering towns, rural homesteads — examining how ecology, history, and lived experience shape what we call home, and how we learn to inhabit places irreparably marked by pressure and extraction. Garrett Ashley's debut full-length collection.
OF WATER NEVER CEASING$22.00
OF WATER NEVER CEASING moves through hospitals, exam rooms, and the altered rhythms of daily life — attending to illness, treatment, and survival with precision and without consolation. Kristin Entler's debut collection insists on continuation rather than cure.
SLOW FIRE$24.00
SLOW FIRE is a debut short story collection set among frozen hollers, decaying motels, and small towns hungry for spectacle — where faith frays, suffering is ordinary, and endurance becomes a quiet form of love. Spencer K.M. Brown's first book with Loblolly Press.
PRELUDES & OTHER POEMS$22.00
At ninety-two, Earl J. Wilcox writes from the steady light of long attention. Preludes & Other Poems gathers new and selected works from a lifetime devoted to language, reflection, and faith in the ordinary — each poem a lamp lit against the dark.
Distant Relations$20.00
Distant Relations moves through the landscapes of rural North Carolina and the silences of family — poems of inheritance, displacement, and the stubborn persistence of connection across generations. Cheryl Whitehead's debut collection.
If Lost$20.00
Invasive species choke native trees, abandoned churches crumble beside failing gas stations, truckers cry in empty parking lots. If Lost maps a landscape in flux — Appalachian and unsparing — where everyone and everything is searching for meaning, shelter, or escape. Clint Bowman's debut collection.
The Computer Room$20.00
Internet chatrooms and youth group missions, fanfiction forums and church pews, slap bracelets and slut-shaming — The Computer Room captures coming of age in small-town America at the turn of the millennium with tenderness and precision. Emma Ensley's debut story collection.
Proud Roads: Poems in the Aftermath of Hurricane Helene$20.00
Winner of an Honorable Mention from the NC Poetry Society's Brockman-Campbell Award. In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, Proud Roads bears witness to the storm's ruin and the stubborn beauty of what remains — gathering the voices of Southern Appalachia and refusing to let their stories be washed away. Kelly Riedesel's debut collection.
What the River Was$16.00
What the River Was moves in three currents — South Carolina creeks and watershed margins, found poems drawn from National Geographic that tell the story of a planet being stripped, and a return to the river as family history and grief. Muskrats and herons, a father met on the shoulder of Highway 6, ancestors who walked south from Virginia after the Civil War — the poems ask what we owe the land and each other, and find the answer is the same thing. Andrew Mack's second collection.
The Surfacing of Joy$20.00
At ninety years old, Earl J. Wilcox published his first poetry collection — poems of birds and baseball, grief and gratitude, written from a life of long attention by a retired professor and founding editor of The Robert Frost Review. The Surfacing of Joy is where Loblolly began.
A Field Guide to North American Trees$14.00
Fourteen poems, each named for a tree native to the American South — loblolly pine, live oak, sweetgum, crape myrtle — where botanical form becomes a way of understanding memory, loss, and the pressure of living. Garrett Ashley's debut chapbook, published in partnership with Good Printed Things.
Weekend Revival$14.00
Weekend Revival gathers the voices of a small Southern town — the postmistress, the reverend, the gravekeeper, the dead — in poems that move between sermon and folk ballad, elegy and field report. Rooted in Appalachian folklore and small-town ritual, it holds genuine faith and genuine menace, often indistinguishable, with water running through all of it. Andrew Mack's chapbook, revised and back in print.
Beasts of Chase$14.00
Rooted in the history of bear hunting in Appalachia since colonization, Beasts of Chase interrogates the relationship between black bears and the people who hunt them — sharply researched, deeply specific to the region, and alive to what displacement costs both the natural world and the human one. Andrew Mack's second chapbook.
Understory: A Full-Color Anthology for Hurricane Helene Recovery$24.00
Understory is a full-color print anthology created in the early months after Hurricane Helene devastated our region in Western North Carolina and beyond. $1 from every print copy sold goes directly to Swannanoa Communities Together, supporting ongoing local recovery and resilience efforts.