Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss Books

For One Who Chose to Die interrogates the most fundamental question of existence: what is life's purpose? Written by Kevin O'Keefe in the 1970s and 80s, these poems explore feelings about change and death, love and loss, beauty and pain, and grief for a...

A book of poems from 1998-2016, compiled for use at the Hawkesbury Literary Festival in April 2016. The poems reflect on relationships within the family, with a friend loved and lost, with humour as well as sensitivity. And on some of the classic...

The award-winning poem, "How We Live On" is part of The Forest of My Mind poetry collection, a journey of deep loss, love, healing, discovery, inner strength, and personal transformation. Comprising poems that feature themes of family, generational...

Zachry K. Douglas, brings you his 18th book and a pivotal change in his life. The pandemic has made everyone more aware of who they are and what it means to live and love. This title is meant to encapsulate last year's progress made in his personal life...

Author, Zachry K. Douglas, brings you his 13th book, Stargazers and Strangers. A collection of loss and a love that left before he knew it was gone for good. It speaks to those who still want more from life. Who still question their path and are...

Grace Pelley reflects on life and Christianity in her debut poetrycollection. These intimate musings explore the sacred and ordinaryin human existence. Encouraging and thoughtful, A MeasuredUniverse is a celebration of language and the God Who made it.

An outsider's look at a world that is both devastating and full of wonder. In this collection you will find joy, satire, pathos, magic, and the goblin spirit, duende. Some of the poems come from dreams, some from close encounters with the bending sickle...

Expanded by nearly 100 pages, the special edition of "The Modern Heart" features photography and additional writing. This edition of the book also comes in hardcover and is printed at the highest quality and resolution. The first part of the book is 120...

Some things in life require we walk through fire to get to the other side. Surviving the suicide of your child is one of those things. In Surviving Suicide, Victoria Polmatier relates the agonizing first year of her life after her adult son’s death...

A slick sharp poetry split with enough punk rock swagger to make Patti Smith proud, and sufficiently sweet to have even Elvis swooning. Two sides of a coin mixing fatalism and fantasy with the fantastic and defective.

From Akif Kichloo,  author of The Feeling May Remain, comes this deeply personal and poetic account of a troubled life. A nowhere man, with or without god, a quintessential mental nomad, omnipresent in his mistakes, exploring mental...

Hold Tight & Reach Hard is a compilation of poetry inspired by daily life. Poetry should be accessible, and this collection of relatable pieces reflects the myriad of emotions humans face during their existence.'Cyclone' is a woman searching for a...

This offering from Miranda's soul to yours is a cathartic guide to help on your journey towards knowing who you truly are. These pages are not for the faint of heart. Yet if you know the light lives in the shadow, take the step. Dive deep into these...

A debut collection of poetry and prose. Written over the course of 6 months and put together by finding a love that showed him it's okay to feel again. A side project that has turned into much more.

A book full of thoughts written about a platypus who pretends to be god and the loss of everyone I love.Miller Mckenzie is no one. At all.

It's time to move onpick yourself up, my loveno one else is going to do it for you It's time to move onleave the past behind youit has served its purpose It's time to move onyou deserve better than what he gavenow go get it. . . .The...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. The iconic tortured artist/everyman delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions."The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."--Joyce...

"Tyde" is a collection of poems that dissects relationship, love, broken hearts and the different emotions we go through as we fall in and out of love. The book explores themes such as the ocean, the four seasons, the waves, childhood memories, and life...

غَيْر بَليد العادات وفُك لجام عيشك الكئيبوكُن كنجم ليلٍ ملول البقاء أو شعاعِ شمسٍ يشتاق المغيبكتاب بين حلم وأمنية يتضمن الكثير من القصائد والخواطر المختصرة بعدة أسطر والتي تحكي عن جمال الأماني وطرق الوصول إليها، وحكماً تقويمية للإنسان تنفع لكل مكان...

كتاب كتبتُه بقلبي، ناقشتُ فيه وتحدَّثتُ عمَّا يجول في ثنايا القلب والعقل مِن خواطر، تقمَّصتُ شخصيات عديدة، وعشتُ فيه أدوارًا جديدة، ورأيتُ زوايا الأمور مِن عدة جوانب ونواحٍ، كان ذلك أحيانًا  لمجرد نزوة أو رغبة، وأحيانًا أخرى كان مِن أجل إيضاح فكرة...

Healing & TransformationIn the captivating collection of poems, "From Embers and Ash," immerse yourself in a journey through the depths of heartache, the miraculous power of transformation, and the profound healing of trauma. Penned by a remarkable...

"Killing You Would've Been Awesome," were the words whispered in my ear on May 5, 2014, when an undercover lawman beat me, tased me, threw me to the ground, and drove his knee into my neck after placing my hands behind my back and securing them in place...

This book is filled with tears turned into words. Every page is a story in itself. Let go, and allow yourself to feel a little less of who you were and unfold, the most purest, gentle, and human part of yourself. Pooja Francis lives in Lucknow, India...

Jeanann Verlee's second book, Said the Manic to the Muse, takes a deeper, more focused look at the erratic, whimsical, ominous, and sometimes perilous ways manic depression functions.Introduced through the careful prophecy of three archetypes:...

In her debut poetry collection, Ordinary Cruelty, Amber Flame spells out rituals in everyday decisions to hold on or let go.While questioning the role of elder, mentor, mother in the face of losing those figures, Flame details the unrelenting nature...

Bill Moran's collection, Oh God Get Out Get Out, goes through us like ugly medicine. It wades through his anxietywater- the grief, trauma, mental illness, money, addiction, deceased friends, and long EMS shifts- all pooled inside the depressed deathmetal...

Cynthia Pelayo constructs a narrative in her poetry in response to the work of Jorge Luis Borges that examines the themes and subsequent consequences of insomnia, death, and blindness. There’s a visionary quality to her work that dances along the...

This volume of poems addresses the human effects of the coronavirus pandemic including: prolonged illnesses, death, disruption of society, families, the work force, and economy. There are the accompanying emotional effects of grief, distressed orphaned...

In the award-winning poem "It's Okay," the speaker appeases both a dying mother and a startled deer, and this collection does the same for all of us. Despite the distances between us, and no matter what ghosts inhabit those spaces, there is common...

We are the overcast, those living beneath the clouds, dealing with loss but somehow still loving the earth. Some of us have been "blessed"; some suffer more than their share. We go from innocence to experience, then back to innocence-are we ever wise? Or...

The Population of Dreams opens it heart and arms to the reader. Accessible language, relatable encounters, the point and counterpoint of present and past, the haunting presence of the past in the present, serve to take the reader for a long ride from...

In the plain-spoken tradition of the character-driven poetry of Philip Levine, Jane Kenyon, and Billy Collins, The Sound of Rain Without Water depicts the sometimes difficult, sometimes luminous lives of everyday people - mothers and fathers, sons and...

There comes a time in every person's walk with God that we are handed a circumstance in which we do not understand. We ask questions such as, "Why?" The death of my daughter and other circumstances brought me to a really low point of life. I struggled...

"Now entering Night-shift""If the edges of the parking lot, hushed with bleak darkness demandsto look upon -engaged in voyeurismof this sceneI lift the one remaining ember to my lipsto lock myself into a dreamUntil the half light of dawn."

I believe in God when I see a dandelion pressing through the rupture in the pavement.A tiny golden sun forcing its way through the darkness,hell-bent on growing.Recognizing the sacred in the everyday, protecting an ailing earth, opening to wonder-these...

Deborah Cooper’s poetry delivers healing compassion, bringing readers into a landscape of solace and renewal.Dark clouds this morningcasting shadows on the wavesand still the birds sing,one of sorrow, two of grace.Granted a...

In My Dreams... is an expansive volume of prose poems, surveying a landscape of surreal dreams, subconscious imaginings, observations, and visions. Hellish, beautiful and subversive, In My Dreams...is an entrance into the wayfaring mind.

In this first collection of poems from author M.A.B. Wyman, the lines are visceral and imagistic, saying much with only a little.They are smooth, rhythmic stories; or rough, unprocessed lines of verse, that stand ready to discuss love and passion, travel...

This collection of poetry and prose explores Mingoia's experiences navigating grief in the five years following her father's death. Split into three sections, the beginning, the middle, and the healing, this collection attempts to comfort readers by...

Sometimes sweet and sometimes poignant, Brandon Cohen's Dear reflects on life's moments of yearning and love. Dedicated to his new fiancé, the poet's third collection strikes chords of hopeful contentment mingled with reflection. Each piece remains...

Sparks Along the Warp, a collection of poetry written by an adventurous woman, Suzanne Harris, who loves to go hiking and camping with her companion dog, Rizzoli. Suzanne has worked on trail crews and hiked in the alps with her daughter. Her adventures...

CREATURES OF THE PROMISED LAND sets the tone of how we may understand words as their own small living creatures, together creating an existence and meaning into what is a place in time - a land, in which we can do our very best to understand our...

I nattens kjole falder de tabte valg, hvor lys og skygger danser den vindende dans. Ubarmhjertighedens klarhed lader nattens lysende skygge afsløre både glædens flygtighed og sorgens dybde.

Being the eldest daughter is similar to the Final Girl in a slasher movie; everyone has to die for you to survive. But I don't feel like the Final Girl. Not when it's my blood on the knife.