Catamaran

It was great to celebrate Floodchaser and Catamaran at the Los Angeles Festival of Books!

Aaron Tyler Hand’s poetry collection Floodchaser is now available for pre-order! Aaron was the winner of the 2025 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets. The book was selected by the contest judge, National Book Award-winning poet Mary Szybist.

🌊 Floodchaser will ship on April 3rd, 2026, so pre-order your copy now!
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Floodchaser reinhabits Noah’s biblical story with surprising urgency and power. It makes mythical and familial inheritances feel palpable but not unbreakable. Wonderfully restless in its formal inventiveness, it breaks and remakes patterns, letting them swirl into rhythms that are unpredictably alive. This is a book about blistering grief and bewilderment, but it is also about resurrection, the kind that is possible once we face the ways in which the “Past and Present [hold] hands around each other’s throat.” Aaron Tyler Hand’s lyrics are emotionally bracing, deeply engaged with the possibilities and reach of the human voice. —Mary Szybist