Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss Books

Jill Mceldowney's Otherlight plunges us into the rarefied limbo of grief. Suspended in time, in action, in ice, its speaker is halfway out the door of this world-is half-turned to follow the beloved who hovers, conjured, just at the edges of...

In Brandon Melendez's debut poetry collection, Gold That Frames the Mirror, nothing sung can truly be lost. Captivating musings spanning heritage, family, grief, music, and mental illness, these poems embark on a profound quest to unravel the...

Mourning is the new black...The tradition of Victorian mourning jewelry began with Queen Victoria after the death of her husband, Prince Albert. Without photography, mementos of personal remembrance were used to honor the dead so that their loved ones...

An examination of the human condition based on a war cemetery, depicted by vignettes of members of the armed forces, civilians, flora and fauna, which explores the deeper truths in life, the horror and futility of war, and the beauty of life and peace...

An aching journey through love and loss. This intimate collection explores lost love in the technological age, yearning for someone next to you, and the feeling of floating adrift in the face of lost hope. For The Quiet is for anyone who has...

"...one of those rare books that cut you and heal you at the same time... Buy the book. You won't regret it." -Elison, author of The Evolution of Love"part-poetic journey, part-survival guide through love, loss and finding yourself again...a haunting...

Jason Emde's poems in little bit die are intimate and haunted recollections of travel and freedom, of friendship and loss, of leaving and getting home. Careening from small-town Canada to Zimbabwe to Mexico to Poland to Tiananmen Square to Gifu, Japan,...

In The Cupped Field, Deirdre O’Connor keenly observes both the commonplace and the unusual, finding disturbing and transcendental aspects in either. O’Connor delights with her insight, her power of metaphor, her lyrical voice, and the range...

'Will it ever go away?' is a poignant and deeply personal poetry memoir that delves into the raw emotions and existential thoughts of a teenage girl who tragically lost her father to suicide. Through her honest and heartfelt poetry, she bravely shares...

Uncover the moonlit regions of your soulPaper Moons is an honest and unabashed poetic voyage through the author's life, reverberating the profuse moments that have defined her existence. Every poem is a vivid snapshot of crucial life circumstances,...

A Chapbook of lyrical poems that speak to the universal human experience of loss. This collection of poems draw on the natural world to find words and images that evoke and express the exquisite and persistent experience of grief, the twin sister of...

କବିତ୍ୱ ଏକ ଦୁର୍ଲଭ ଶକ୍ତି । ଏହା ଯେତେବେଳେ ଅବତରଣ କରେ ସାଧାରଣ ମଣିଷ ଅସାଧାରଣ ପାଲଟିଯାଏ । ଏହି ଶକ୍ତି ବଳରେ ସମଗ୍ର ଜୀବଜଗତରେ କଳାପ୍ରାଣତା, କଳ୍ପନା ପ୍ରବଣତା ଚିରଜାଗ୍ରତ ରହିଛି । ସଂସ୍କୃତି ତଥା ସଭ୍ୟତାର କ୍ରମ ଉତ୍ତରିତ ପଥ ଆହୁରି ଉଜ୍ୱଳ ଦିଶୁଛି ।...

Notes I Wrote Along the Way is a collection of original poems inspired by the emotions that we gather up and confront on this journey called life. The themes of memory, environment, love, sexual desire, dreams, madness, and death paint a picture inside...

Winner of the New Measure Poetry PrizeA multilayered book and performance, A Short History of Anger speaks through fragments, fractures, song, and the voices of a Greek Chorus. This lament confronts the massacre of Greek citizens in the 1922...

Scott McBride's struggle with depression, anxiety and grief forced him to acknowledge the illogical, seemingly insurmountable abyss of mental illness, through writing poetry. The poems are raw, visceral illuminations of Despair and Struggle. Rare gems of...

Sit back, shut your eyes and relax as you are engrossed in some of the deepest thoughts and reflections of my life, put into a beautiful display of poetry. Each page takes you through a chapter of my life.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

"Sally Alter's first poetry collection is amazing. She is an accomplished and talented poet and her words will leave you breathless." ~ Larry Thomas, Texas Poet Laureate."We Never Did Mornings: Poems For Those Who Have Loved and Lost" is a...

As time goes by, we will all inevitably lose special people who taught us about life and how to grow. And as we get older, we get to share those lessons with each new generation. LITTLE ONE YOURE SO LUCKY helps adults share the memories of those who...

The hardest part about being hospitalized for mental illness isn't admitting yourself...but leaving. "Post Pine" examines the months before, after and during the greatest mental break down, to date, in my life and my journey in attempting to live with...

Honest, vulnerable, and unapologetic, this collection of poems and free verse centers around the tragedy of losing a child. This is one parents agonizing journey through the process of coping with the deep emotional impact of intense grief.This...

Thanks for thinking of buying this book or for purchasing it already. Below is what the author has provided to give you a snapshot of what you will find within, including a small biography.This book of 161 poems by Robert J. Mack represents a creative...

In her third collection of poetry, Trudy Kleckner reminds us of the transformative power of attention, describing with wonder the unaffected beauty of nature and the preciousness of human life. These poems offer pause for reflection and nourishment...

Are you proud of where you come from, Are you proud of what you've done? Do you linger alone, living in your past, Or are you proud of how far you've come?("Proud," p. 123)For some of us, life is not easy, right from the jump. What seems so natural and...

There is no way to escape this fateThis maze of languished tormentEvery turn compounds confusionThe son of Pasiphae waits in twisting labyrinthian tunnelsReady to cut the string of order by which one stridesLike the son of Pasiphae, poet Michael Finelli...

Written between 2007 and 2022, this collection of lyrical poems explores the the impact of a spouse's dementia on a loving relationship. These are poems in search of a good life, which, the author believes, must be available to us even in the midst of...

Karen West is a native-born New Zealander, now living in Australia. She writes historic romances under a pseudonym Kate Westwood and has published a first collection of poems, Between Is and Was. Her second collection of poems, Small Journeys...

Following R. Clift's summer evolved poetry & photography collection, to feel anything at all, her second book in the series continues the narrative as the gentle promise of healing after loss. This hardback edition is meant to sit quietly on a coffee...

Using ink and pen alone, Kenneth weaves with wordplay the timeless portrait of the poet's Muse upon the pages of his debut collection of love poems."To Look Upon Eurydice" is a work unique in the world of poetry today, the author a former free verse...

Everyone deserves love, understanding, to be heard, and, above all, hope.As I began to write this book, penning thoughts and ideas about this very notion, I found myself in a place where the world sometimes appears overwhelmingly dark. I believe our...

You Will Hear My Voice: A Collection of Inspirational Poems is a collection of 114 poems written by Ronnie Fletcher is memory for his brother. Vincent Fletcher, who passed away. Vincent's birthday was 04/11 and he passed away on 10/14...

Both intellectually stimulating an emotionally engaging, the poems in daughter, while i'm still here capture a mother's desire to convey what over eight decades of experiences and learnings have revealed about the fragility of life, relationships and...

Suicide affects those left behind, precipitating a lifetime of memories and feelings borne by family and friends. The poems in INDELIBLE SHADOW by Sandra Berris capture shock, grief, anger, confusion, guilt, acceptance, and ultimately, hope...

If you've ever experienced heartbreak, Diana Townsend's I Thought I Missed Him is a poetry collection you won't want to miss. With brutal honesty and unflinching emotion, Townsend delves into the toxic and often destructive emotions that arise when a...

‘Soaked in the Bible, in Sanskrit, in mid twentieth-century English poetry and his own lifelong reading habits, Vijay Nambisan was a great Indian poet who never received his due. His magisterial later poems are of a piece with the earliest, which...

¿Se puede desear a quien no quiere vivir? ¿Se puede uno guiar por la presencia obsesiva de la esperanza y, a la vez, afirmar que la vida no es más que un curso avanzado de escepticismo? ¿Cómo esconderse de alguien...

My Brother Goes Down to the Sea is John Gribble's second full-length collection. The poems explore various bodies of water - ranging in size from from ponds in public parks to the Pacific Ocean - along with family lives and stories, relationships,...

"...in this blink of existence,bookended by nothingness,it is your simultaneouspresence and absencethat hurtles me through life,past the ungenerous onesand straight to the rarityof our elusiveand unfiltered love."-stephan silich'putting the trembling...

Some Notes You Hold is about surviving what life throws at us as we age. The so-called “golden years” are so named because of the high admission price—the tremendous losses, disappointments, illnesses, and failures we all experience if...

"Intensely personal, yet effortlessly accessible, every poem is a luminous and unflinching journey through challenging human landscapes." -Sky Island JournalMark Waldron notes, "In 'unskinned' language, Lorrie Ness' poignant poems remind us our...

We walked down to the sea frontTo mark an anniversaryWe let the rain drops wash our facesLike God weeping over the memorialWriting the letters of your nameIn the slightly wet sandSo that even when it seems the world cannot recollectWe know the sea will...

In 1987 my elder daughter, Nikki, aged 19, took her own life. Just over a year later, my husband left. For a marriage to survive the death of a child is hard enough; it is less likely to survive if that death is a suicide. When he left, out of the blue,...

In David O'Hanlon's first full-length collection, precise, piercing language illuminates tales from actual, mythical and personal history - making all three seem immediate, contemporary and universal. Readers will hear how 'four unacquainted deaf men...

"For you..." is a collection of 170 poems, mini poems, and micro stories that I have written over the course of fifty-plus years.Within these pages you will find pieces covering many aspects of life, from the joy of love to the pain of loss, from...

And Still the Sky is Pink and Blue by Joan Hill is a poetry collection consisting of at least 45 intimate and family-centred poems.Excerpt from And Still the Sky is Pink and Blue by Joan Hill:"This is the year I grew old knocked down by those who...

Tried for innocence ...and found guilty.To die, my sentence."Oh well.""Guess I'll get to leave early...and miss the apocalypse."Twist of a novelist, gone rogue.All's now oppositeof what's expected.Cut's infected...

"This beautiful book of poetry should be titled Deep Thoughts for Deep Hearts because each one reached depths in my heart no other has been able to find." - V. Domino, author of beautifully dark romance novels (My Desire (Mi Deseo): book one of...