Author: Robert Arthur

Coffee table book with photographs by internationally celebrated pictorialist A. Aubray Bodine.

In stunningly gorgeous and evocative language, Arthur resurrects the almost lost culture and physical presence of the Eastern Shore

This national and international experiment with a new form, the Poem/Play, has been seen by thousands in part or full (San Francisco, Washington D.C., New York City, Norway, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and St. Petersburg, Russia.

This poetic tribute to the Eastern Shore of Virginia helps preserve the people and places of a disappearing culture.

Ranked as one of the finest books ever written about Tidewater, Virginia, Hymn is the best-selling book of its publisher, Road Publishers. Stunningly gorgeous and evocative language.

Full length Stage Play – Corey Coots is a rising star in the snake-handling Signs Following Church in the hills of Appalachia. He is supported by his wife, Star, who after his death aspires to become a preacher like her husband.

Will Granny get her demanded shave before they cart her off to the old folks’ home?

Three one-act plays: half-serious and half comic comedies reflective of life on the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Maryland in the 1940’s. This much performed play, is considered one of Arthur’s best.

Strokes is a brilliant complement to the famous book of poems, Hymn to the Chesapeake, which became known nationally and internationally, and was followed by Horse Hammock Point.

Rare Book available through Author. Published by San Francisco Bay Press.

After the conflagration of the third world war breaks the bonds of consensual reality, ten brutal and psychologically damaged men set out on horseback into a wilderness of unexplainable natural phenomena. A wild and haunting epic of light and dark. Filled with unpredictable philosophical, psychological and physical horror.

Passover Robert P. Arthur and Aphrodite Anagnost are a terrifying pair of gifted verbalists who have pulled off one of the most evocatively written horror novels in decades. The winner of the Chanticleer book prize for a ghost story, Passover chronicles a day and night in the lives of a wealthy rural family that discovers […]

A tribute to Vincent Van Gogh.
Combining poetry, dance, biographical notes, music and drama, Music of leaves is an intensely beautiful and ultimately heartbreaking look at the life, work, and interior landscape of Vincent Van Gogh