New from Regal House Publishing, Local Heroes, Lyric poems exploring themes drawn from ordinary life

RALEIGH, N.C. - April 27, 2026 - PRLog -- Regal House Publishing announces its new publication Local Heroes by David Tucker. This is David Tucker's third collection of poems. His first book, Late for Work, won the Bakeless Poetry Prize, and he won a national chapbook contest held by Slapering Hol Press, for Days When Nothing Happens. He was awarded a Witter Bynner Fellowship by the Library of Congress, selected by Donald Hall. Tucker's poems have appeared in numerous magazines, including Ploughshares, Mississippi Review, North American Review, Lascaux Review, Narrative, Southern Humanities Review, Poetry Friday, Dogwood Poetry Journal, and Oberon.

Praise for Local Heroes
"David Tucker celebrates the incandescence of the every day, and raises the ordinary to art—a telephone as quiet as an heirloom, the stillness tended like wheat—even as he mourns the quickness of time passing. There are gems on every page, in every line, in poems full of pathos and humor and longing. And always, the last words linger, still shimmering with a reverence for life amidst all the losses."
— Amy Nutt, Pulitzer Prize winning author

"In Local Heroes David Tucker, a life-long and award-winning newspaper reporter, delivers hard news while also turning his lyric eye to the hard truth closest at hand: time's forward march. "Daylight Savings Time" opens. There is a morning each November/when an hour is given back to us. Yes, we lose it/again in March but for now who cares? Tucker's central concern is that now, rich with mystery and disappointment and wonder...This wise and mature book is full of such glories."
— Suzanne Cleary, prize-winning poet and author of the collection, The Odds

"...weaves life in the newsroom, life on the streets, and the failings and flickering joys of his own life in a tenderly honest way. It's telling that the local heroes of his title are women, some of whom live the sorts of lives Thoreau described as quiet desperation, while others, like Aunt Rubena, a county clerk 're-elected fourteen times without opposition' spends her days under 'a turret fan that spread a blessing of little breezes/ around the office.'…"
— Lola Haskins, author of Homelight and thirteen other poetry collections

Publication Details
Paperback: 92 pages
ISBN: 9781646036622
US $19.95 / CAN $27.95
Epub/Mobipocket
ISBN: 9781646036639
US $9.99 / CAN $13.99

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