Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss Books

David Greenspan's One Person Holds So Much Silence explores the intersection of physical and emotional traumas through surprising and jaw-dropping language. Simultaneously lush and bizarre, the poems in One Person Holds So...

A collection of 60 poems that offer heartfelt and humorous insight on the messiness of being human.Jacky Power, also known as The Therapeutic Poet, brings her experience and wisdom as a qualified psychotherapist, mother and recovering human to this...

A riveting collection of poetry and quotes that deeply explore the vast spectrum of the human experience. Each poem is told from various points of view that represent sections of our population whose voices get lost in the crowd, or are forgotten...

Esta obra es la esencia nostálgica que brota del rincón de mi existencia, las que presento en versos los que quizás muchos ojos leerán y al hacerlo no verán, mas mi voz gritara aunque quizás no se oiga, tal vez porque soy la simple lagrima que comienza a...

Water Bearer's Song is a collection of poetry and prose that sings of days of quarantine, of threads of loneliness, isolation and nostalgia knitting the existence of human lives in all the ages and times, whether a pandemic or not. The song might...

Although the title, Gravel Road Ahead, hints at what’s in store, readers may not be prepared for the heart-wrenching journey ahead. When poet Sue Fagalde Lick and her husband Fred left their careers in Silicon Valley for a new home on the Oregon...

The work in this collection attempts to 'steal space' -as one of the poems will explain-from a majority, and to carve a niche for the nearly extinct, ethnoreligious minority-the Parsi Zoroastrians. These poems will give readers a window...

Lesley Clinton's Calling the Garden from the Grave explores our restless human yearnings and spiritual endurance. Pieces in this collection have won awards from the Poetry Society of Texas, Press Women of Texas, and the Houston Poetry Fest. Settings as...

ସମାଜରେ ସାହିତ୍ୟର ଭୂମିକା ଯେ ଗୁରୁତ୍ୱପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ ସେଥିରେ ତିଳେମାତ୍ର ଦ୍ୱନ୍ଦ୍ୱର ଅବକାଶ ନାହିଁ । ମୋର ସ୍ୱଳ୍ପ ଅଧ୍ୟୟନରୁ ମୁଁ ଏତିକି ବୁଝିଛି ଯେ ଏକ ସୁସ୍ଥ ଓ ପରିପକ୍ୱ ସମାଜ ଗଠନ କରିବାରେ, ମଣିଷକୁ ସମ୍ବେଦନଶୀଳ କରି ଗଢ଼ି ତୋଳିବାରେ ସାହିତ୍ୟର ଅବଦାନ ଅନନ୍ୟ । ସାହିତ୍ୟର ସାରସ୍ୱତ ସାଧକମାନଙ୍କର...

Imperative to Spare is the first installment of a trilogy in which Hightower seeks to explore diplomacies of the heart. He puts an altruistic human face on suffering and awe. The poetic voice is that of the lone surviving wanderer in the landscape of...

Of a Mother enters the strange time-space continuum of grief that is terminal illness, exploring a mother's death from cancer and a daughter's ways of coping. In this linear set of poems, everyday objects like pincushions, dressing gowns, and perfumes...

Interpretacciones/Interpretations/Interpretações is a book that establishes a dialogue with Jorge Luís Borges' Ficciones, translated as Fictions in English and as Ficções in Portuguese. Borges is famous for focusing on the thin line separating fiction...

This is a chronicle, in verse, of my personal journey to, during, and after serving in a Dustoff unit in Vietnam. Dustoff units provided front-line medical evacuation of the wounded from the battlefield to the field hospital in unarmed, fragile,...

The Spirit of the Seasons: And Other Poems is a collection of poems written by James Spilling and published in 1850. The book is divided into four sections, each one dedicated to a different season of the year. The poems explore the beauty and wonder of...

Silk Flower Goodbye is an exploration of the mixed emotions felt in the wake of bereavement. Delving into the heartache, the uncertainty, and the anger of the situation, the poet seeks catharsis on the page. They hope for resolution and a sense of peace...

One of the most honored poets of 20th-century American verse, Richard Wilbur won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his poetry. With a distinguished career spanning more than sixty years, Richard Wilbur stands as one of America's...

THE MONTHLY POETRY COLLECTION BY S. H. MIAH September 2023 features 70 brand-new poems on mental health, reflections on the state of this world, motivational messages, and a particularly cheeky rant on garden fencing. A monthly collection of...

HALLOWEEN HEARTS: POETRY INSPIRED BY RAY BRADBURY AND EDGAR ALLAN POEAdele Gardner's Halloween Hearts is a welcome celebration of all things Halloween, whether they take place on October 31st or not. Disciples of All Hallows' Eve, enter of your own free...

Letters to Michelangelo from Wyoming is a collection of epistolary or letter poems to the Masters of the Italian Renaissance: Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Leonardo DaVinci and others. These letter poems were inspired from the poet Burt Bradley's journey to...

Poetry Collection by Nadine Hitchiner. Nadine Hitchiner is a German writer and author of the chapbook Bruises, Birthmarks & Other Calamities (Cathexis Northwest Press, 2021). She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and was named a 2023 Best of...

Philip Belcher's first full-length collection of poems reveals a poet probing memory and art-their jumble of fact and imagination-to explore the challenges of living with full awareness of decline, of acknowledging failure to meet one's own expectations,...

A real, raw, and honest experience through heartbreak, loss, grieving, and finding oneself again.I hope this book of poems allows you to feel less alone on your journey through healing. I hope it gives you the strength to keep going. I hope it allows you...

In Ghost Methods Síofra McSherry presents a complex and loving portrait of Sean Bonney, one that is both personal and political, where death is difficult not in the leaving, but in 'the staying gone'. Here, in these outraged and beautiful poems, McSherry...

Hauntings at the Hour of Noon follows the journey of a lonely human who seeks meaning and purpose in her life while processing trauma, love, and loss.Along the way, she discovers the importance of making connections and seeks lessons from the natural...

Who killed Nicholas Jordan Di Marco?When my son was released from a treatment facility, one of the counselors (who I was working with closely) recommended I get Narcan. At that time, you needed a prescription, so I went to my family doctor to get some...

The monument we have become of our events lasting forever even after our last gasp has led me towards drafting two, amongst many pillars.Hence, SOLE PLAYWe shall come across the pillars habitually known as 'THE DARK' & 'THE LIGHT'.In the dark, we...

Brendan Bonsack is a poet, broadcaster, photographer and filmmaker. His written work appears in print and online, and has been featured in Australian and European festivals, including the Melbourne Writers Festival and White Night, and the UNESCO Poems...

Lovers of poetry! You are going to love William Sharp!A Scottish writer of poetry, the tone of Sharp's poems is what you'd describe as soulful, tender, nostalgic and just a little tragic. This anthology is a collection of Sharp's greatest poems,...

Inky Veins is a poetry collection of rhyme, free verse, prose, and haiku. Poems included in this collection are from Andi Leigh's blog: andileighwrites.com.

The book is comprised of 38 poems exploring the dark side...loss, grief, betrayal, death, the paranormal, existential nausea, world weariness, questioning the why of it all, the degradation of the environment, the impersonality of modern society as well...

Summer Seas and Autumn Leaves is a short collection of eighteen poems that pack a big punch. Written over a span of seventy years, these are poems from the author's early days as a father to the present day in 2022. Themes of personal loss, familial...

Extinction Theory is a collection of pseudoscience poems that try to provide rationales for some of life's most salient mysteries. Where is God? What does it mean to belong? Who killed the dinosaurs? Kien Lam creates new worlds with new rules to better...

From the north a butterfly in winter land under the Polar star in the elongated small country-Norway-If you listen carefully you can hear her wing stroke rises from a descending black star from a nightmare visions flash down below the abyss.Breaks...

Written after the unexpected death of her mother, Michelle Meyer's The Trouble with Being a Childless Only Child takes root in the body, exploring loss and trauma along with the sexual and social dynamics of one woman's place among men. Part epistolary...

With remarkable erudition, the poems in Brian Culhane's Remembering Lethe explore the way classical history and legend may illuminate modern life. Thus the title poem links a son's poignant visit to his mother, suffering dementia, to the myth...

hazyn forsythe (they/she) is a poet and creative whose work centres around mental health and the sapphic and queer experience. i think this feeling is hope is hazyn's first solo poetry collection, featuring pieces written over several years whilst...

King Wrenfrey of Triastein, a king no more. His land invaded, his queen and son murdered, and himself in exile. He desires nothing more than vengeance and the chance to reclaim what's rightfully his. But when all his allies turn from him, he must rely on...

As the narrative continues from summer, autumn, and now to winter - R. Clift offers her third evolved poetry & photography collection, tomorrow will be kinder, as a companion to solitude and coping with mental health in the dark times we all face in...

The powerful insistence of the title of Gregg Weatherby's Before We Forget, resonates behind every poem in this superb collection. As he deftly navigates the tightrope between past and present, sacred and profane, "the strange juxtaposition of holy...

Narrative poems about working class life in a small prairie town. A protest book about the damages and sorrow poverty causes on humans interweaved with tragedy and personal loss. **********************In Railman's Son, LeRoy Sorenson returns to some...

Carey Link's most recent poetry sequence, I Walk a Frayed Tightrope Without a Safety Net, a finalist in the 2019 Blue Light Press chapbook contest, is a personal, introspective exploration of the experience of living and coping with metastatic cancer...

ଏବର ସମୟ ଖଣ୍ଡରେ କବିତାର ପ୍ରଧାନ ଉତ୍ସ ହେଉଛି ମଣିଷ । ସେହି ମଣିଷ ନିତିଦିନ କେତେ କେତେ ସୁଖ ଦୁଃଖ, ହାନିଲାଭ, ବିଷାଦ ବିରହ ଓ ଭୋକକୁ ସାମ୍ନା କରୁଥାଏ । ସେ ଭୋକ ହୋଇପାରେ ଉଦରର, ମାନସିକ ସ୍ତରର, ଜୀବନ ଜିଜ୍ଞାସାର, ସାମାଜିକ, ଆର୍ଥନୀତିକ ଓ ସାଂସ୍କୃତିକ ବିଶ୍ଲେଷଣର । ମଣିଷର ସୁବିଧା ପାଇଁ ଯେଉଁ...