Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss Books

An anthology of poems for adults with a longing to know the passion of the human heart. Watermark is the first book of poetry from New York Times best selling author G.P. Taylor. Well known for his previous titles including 'Shadowmancer',...

Death for the bomber crew limping back over the estuary? Life after death for the young woman buried under the trees, beneath the city? A lunch break after death - as decades, centuries break their moorings and collide with each other?Felix Hodcroft is...

In a world of Black and White" where darkness covers the canvas everywhere I look.A dream a child wants instead of a land of hurt. If God created us equally, why do others smile when I frown?Why do I lack the energy to get out of bed? When will these...

I Thought I'd Be Over This By Now is the debut full-length poetry collection by shayne, whose work comes together to "disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed" (Cesar A. Cruz), and never presumes to land on the oft-fabled 'right answer.'As she...

PRAISE for ~ HUNGER FOR SALT“The poems of Elaine Fletcher Chapman are meditations waiting for our eyes to open. A few of these poems remind me of the beautiful seashells one finds on the beach after a storm. Chapman writes from the heart reminding...

Struggling to accept her impending blindness, the speaker in Julia B. Levine's fifth collection of poetry, Ordinary Psalms, asks everyday life to help her learn how to see beyond appearances into fundamental truths. As she contemplates the loss of one...

This heartfelt raw contemporary poetry covers the arch of leaving a relationship and beginning to rebuild, addressing a sudden death, parenting through difficult times, and finding one's voice and strength again. Follow the powerful journey through the...

In this debut work, spoken word poet and filmmaker, Butch Schwarzkopf, reaches out to the empty spaces: a too-quiet house, the end of the universe, a silenced colonial history, the grief of losing a loved one. Schwarzkopf braids his artistic disciplines...

"If God is willing to vanquish evil, but isn't able to, then he is not omnipotent. If God is able to vanquish evil, but isn't willing to, then he is malevolent. If he is both willing and able, then whereth cometh evil? And if he is neither willing nor...

Unveiling Life's Mysteries: A Stirring Collection of Poems on Love, Loss, and the Human Condition. Discover the Power of Words in a Quest for Spiritual Empathy and Social Justice.Voices Yearning is an eclectic collection of poetry that delves into the...

"El impulso en la neblina" es una obra literaria que explora los puntos más profundos de la depresión, pero que también ofrece una mirada optimista hacia la recuperación y la autoaceptación. A...

The raw outpouring of emotion in easy to read prose has made Alana's work resonate with countless people who felt she was putting words to the feelings they struggle to articulate. Alana Kirby's first book, "the words i'll never say", sold 10,000 copies...

While hymns are traditionally means of communicating the divine, Hymnal for Catastrophe invests sacred forms in the ordinary and commonplace. Falling out of love, losing a friend, not having money to buy food: these things we experience all the...

"James Alan Riley's Uncertain Mythologies reverberates with a profound sense of time, rooted in the tangible experiences that form and inform our everyday lives. The collection embraces the interplay of light and shadow, life and death, where...

As a series, the poems in Echolocation swing back and forth from the natural world keenly observed—rain, birds, sunflowers, even a clam— to the contortions of the human heart, mostly caused by hurt and loss. And isn’t that where the...

The poems in loudest when startled, luna rey hall's debut collection, explore the ways in which gun violence has become part of the fundamental nature of relationships, family, and American masculinity-so much so that the bullet has been...

"Dead But Not Forgotten" contains a selection of Apgar's verses most of which accurately chronicle some significant historical events and are familiar to readers if only in general terms. Also in this volume is some imaginative verse sure to touch on hot...

"Do you love your mother?"This provocative question provides the catalyst for this stunning poetic memoir from Barbara Harris Leonhard. Through her artfully-crafted poetry, the author considers where her love and loyalties lie following her aging...

Poetry for the dead, the dying, and the ghosts. 45 illustrated poems collecting the best of Golds' noir poetry from 2020 - 2022. Paper lanterns and petty crime. Whiskey bars and beach confessions. One-night stands and the childhoods that led to cheating,...

Twenty-four poems and a song by John Perrault former Portsmouth Poet Laureate, Pushcart nominee, poet and balladeer.

The speaker's language is lyrical, private, devotional almost, at other times a code-switching irreverent and raucous melding of street slang and religious tropes, a distinct minority voice of urban immigrant resilience and creative potential. In turns...

Acclaimed author and music critic Sean Murphy's new poetry collection is a searing and timely take on American culture that finds perspective on the present by interrogating our past. The Blackened Blues offers a powerful glimpse into the human...

Falling Bodies, a chapbook of poems from Finishing Line Press, explores loss, identity, and family through the lens of the natural world. The book, part of Finishing Line's acclaimed Chapbook Series, is by Finger Lakes area author, Jillian Barnet, whose...

In her debut collection, poet R.B. Simon paints a compelling canvas of identity one poem at a time. With evocative, lyrical language, these poems of loss, identity, and ultimately recovery, show that the complex fabric of our lives often weaves together...

"Chandana Banare Eka" is the fourth poetry collection of the poet Bhanuji Rao. Collection has fifty poems in it. This collection was awarded Odisha Sahitya Akademi award for poetry in 1994.

Moving from childhood to retirement, "The Stoop" covers a wide range of subject matter. Several poems explore growing up in Brooklyn, New York in the 1950s and 1960s, which include painful and humorous memories. Many poems reflect on cinematic,...

The poems in John Pleimann's Come Shivering to Collect live and move and have their being in a world that is both twilit and sacred. Speakers wrestle with memory's power to obsess and distort, to haunt, and to evoke. They discover that life mocks...

In the title poem of Into the New World Robert Schultz takes the reader on a walk around the World Trade Center site shortly after its destruction: in response to this event, the book ranges through the extremes of war and peace, as well as backwards and...

A diagnosis of ADHD at age fifty-five can make you stop and think. So can losing your daughter to a drunk driver two days after her eighth birthday-or looking up at the majesty of the Big Buddha in Phuket after getting lost in the mountains on the way...

Winner, 2022 Blue Light Book Award In this richly diverse mélange of human lives, many actual and many imagined, Stewart Florsheim embraces the light and the dark much as his beloved Rembrandt employed chiaroscuro to reveal the complexity of a...

Carols of Canada, Etc., Etc. is a collection of Christmas carols compiled and edited by Elizabeth Susan MacLeod in 1893. The book features a variety of traditional carols from Canada and other countries, as well as original compositions by MacLeod...

Ominous Clouds is a collection of poems that have specifically been selected from previous works by the author. The collection comprises poems with the theme of Kenyan politics. Issues of governance, negative ethnicity, and political violence are...

In ENDscape, I found myself writing about the experience of being lost, yet always yearning to be found. It reflects the desire to escape the darkness, even when a part of us is drawn to linger in it. Every corner of our minds holds a mirror to life's...

Afternoon Abundance is a debut poetry collection from independent filmmaker turned author, Foster Wilson. This collection is an invitation to shed expectations and societal pressures. Through Foster Wilson's vibrant poetry, we delve into the raw and...

Upon falling awaking, you may experience a sudden rush of anxiety caused by the unknown fear behind a closed door.Vita Mortuis is a poetic story that follows the encounters of a haunted soul through the four seasons of life. It is intertwined with the...

Blue California Sky is both homage to the varied and rich landscapes of California and poignant glimpses into the human experience: grief, trauma, loss, change, and also love, joy, wonder, and connection-to one's self, to others, and to the natural world...

In The Thaw of Day chronicles the aftermath-what it's like to leave a marriage torn apart by rage and substance abuse. In the midst of divorce, the poet was also by her mother's side as she lay dying. After burying her mother, she relocated as...

The narrator of Washed and Dried speaks from a foggy road, a lighthouse, the flowerbed in front of her ghostly home, a midstream rock, the desert, a childhood steeped in the south. The result is a series of recollections on family, change, and...

The Hearts Echo is a poignant collection of poetry and journal entries that delve into the intricate layers of mental health and everyday life. Through raw and reflective verse, this book captures the quiet struggles and small victories that echo within...

"Nena No More" is a harrowing yet hopeful collection of dark poetry by Monica, a San Antonio poet and devoted mother. Delving into the depths of depression, her verses lay bare the silent suffering of mental illness, from suicidal thoughts to the scars...

The Things I Think About and Other Stories captures thoughts and stories shaped by years of challenges, failures, violence, wins and moments of clarity. Through this work, she hopes to sharpen your iron as hers has been sharpened. May these words stir...

Embark on a profound journey of self-discovery and transformation with "Polychotomy," the debut poetry collection by Adelia Jupiter. Through the lens of a god broken down by the trauma of mortal existence, these poems explore the multifaceted nature of...

Night Song is a collection of carefully crafted poems with a dark tint. In this book you'll find 46 fantasy cinquins about gods, prophecies, and curses. About heroes, thieves, dragons, and other fantastical creatures. Love, sickness, death, and...

Hailed as one of the leading Israeli poets, Benarroch´s poetry has been published in a dozen languages, including Urdu and Chinese. Julia Uceda considers that Benarroch holds the memory of the world in his poetry, while Jose Luis Garcia Martin...