Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss Books

2nd Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2020Because everybody has a mother. And everybody's going to lose her.A collection of poems inspired by one woman's relationship with her mother, the chapbook My Mother Never Died Before and Other Poems...

Doomsday is here and the earth is suffering with each breath she takes. Whether it’s from the nuclear meltdown, the wrath of the Four Horsemen, a war with technology, or a consequence of our relationship with the planet, humanity is left buried and...

The Weight of a Box is an achingly simple memorial to a lost sister. French's poems share the joys and pains of living, loving, and losing a sibling to addiction and overdose. She leads you through the stages of grief with raw emotion devoid of...

Singing Is Praying Twice gives voice to an intergenerational community of women."[This poetry collection] is filled with pathos and empathy, populated with memorable characters who alternately amuse, enrage, puzzle, and pull at the heart. Taken...

Step into the soul-stirring world of Dennis Jackson, a post-Vietnam Veteran whose poetry transcends time and trauma. In "Bitterest Truth," Jackson bares his heart and soul, offering readers an intimate glimpse into the tumultuous journey of a soldier who...

"the trembling metaphor of why we live, and how, and for how long, of how we strive for a good death, the kaleidoscopic haze of what remains on the path once we've shed our febrile skin in a miasmic atmosphere where everyone has been asleep for ages and...

February 24th, 2022, a date the world will not forget.   The Russians invaded Ukraine, a sovereign country on some made up pretext, with threats of nuclear Armageddon should any other countries join forces and ally themselves to the Ukraine...

In visceral, vulnerable poetry, Ricky Ray softens the ache of living in a disabled body with the joy of 'being lived' by the places he calls home. As we accompany him and his soul dog, Addie, through scenic woodlands, cities and swamps, the lines between...

The Commerce Between Tongues explores adrija ghosh's multilingualism, which bears the collection's exploration of loneliness, grief, trauma, desire, and their impact upon one's sense of self. This collection explores the idea of mobility and how the self...

When we walk on the Wild side of life with grief and bereavement, we find it difficult to understand. The hurt we suffer seems to go on and on and dig right in. Support at this time can be a comfort and emotionally helpful.Wild Woman hopes that her...

Tyrone Warren was born in Dublin Ireland to an Irish Mother & West Indian Father & sailed off at the age of 8 to London (England) for a better life. A Catholic upbringing raised & schooled him until 17 when he left home with a burning curiosity.Where his...

Introducing Here to Stay (an Anthology) by Ty Smith, a mesmerizing collection of poems that will sweep readers off their feet. In this remarkable anthology, Ty Smith showcases his poetic prowess, taking readers on an emotional journey through...

Love, Sex and Death... the three major forces of human existence. They liberate us and constrain us. Corvix explores these in all their multifaceted experience through fifty-three poems embracing love, loss, obsession, isolation and regret, and the...

'The world's really not the way it is,' says the eponymous Psychiatrist in Andrzej Kotański's wildly popular Poems about my Psychiatrist, 'it's not what it seems to us to be / to tell the truth / the world doesn't actually exist.' This is...

"Енеїда" - це книга-епос Івана Котляревського, що була опублікована у 1798 році. Це перша повноформатна поема, написана українською мовою, яка отримала широку популярність в Україні та стала однією з найвідоміших творів української літератури в світі...

Leaves of Grass is a collection of nearly 400 poems by Walt Whitman. It is known for its celebration of individuality, democracy, nature, and the human body. Whitman's free verse style and unconventional themes were considered controversial in his time,...

In Kelly Rowe's Rise above the River, we find a sister powerless to redress her brother's fall from grace after the trauma of his childhood sexual abuse by a female authority figure. Rise above the River interrogates in a quest for answer, meaning,...

Through the ashes, I rise is a book of poems that expresses intense emotion with grief, loss, heartbreak, and general day to day life experiences. It also demonstrates the beauty in overcoming all things that were meant to bring us down and learn to be...

Our journeys mirror nature in many ways, especially the changing of the seasons. Sometimes our hearts radiate with warmth from the summer sun. Sometimes out hearts freeze over and shatter from the winter frost. Our hearts feel every ripple and every...

What you're holding in your hands is testament to a lifetime of witty, wry, poignant, and gripping insights on topics that demand honesty, courage, humor, and resolve. Aging. Honor. Dying. Love. Fatherhood. Poetry. Cipriano is as at home penning an...

Are you experiencing great joy in life or are you dealing with sorrow, anxiety, or loss? This uniquely crafted poetic devotional will meet you where you are and draw you close to the source of all hope. Each short devotional includes a relatable story...

Tranquility Teetering on Tears is an insightful observation of a nontraditional society and written by a nontraditional student formed and scripted in a traditional Lutheran University that is currently presided over by a Roman Catholic.The poems are...

Poetry served as my secret confidant.In early innocent days, I assembled words like LEGO® blocks when my heart felt more than I could speak. On a rare occasion, I presented my poem to a crush, a grade-school girl unsure how to respond. I felt the...

In this luminous first collection, Kristin Rose Jutras presents a heart-breaking and at times funny interpretation of human existence in poems with a wholly unique voice. She uses Robert Lowell's Life Studies as a blueprint for the architecture of this...

In Between Twilight Post delves deep into the difficult journeys of everyday life and intersects those with the difficult maps of the past. There are "atrocities in the body" and many ways a person can falter, fall or rise from "the hue of an unseen self...

"The poems in to linger on hot coals are like the babies who inspired them: small but profoundly significant, and imprinting those they touch with both delicious sweetness and heartbreaking pain. They will speak to those whose grief is new as well as to...

Scrawled Out Timeline is a breathless collection of poems that travels through time. This impactful collection of poems is split by four years. Each section tells a little more about the story in the struggles we all experience in our lives. They cut...

Eb and flow, sable to indigoA journey abrupt, stretching endlessThrough a maze darkened senselessEb and flow, sable to indigoA journey fleeting, prolonging deathlessThrough grayed lobes wrought defenseless- Nicholas M. Abdo

Although as you read you feel a little of my painknow all things a bit broken can be made whole and beautiful again.Memories of Me is a collection of both rhyming and free verse poetry written as a way of coping with and understanding life's most painful...

Inspired and inspiring, What The Dogs Tell Me opens a new chapter in human-dog relationships. Dog-whisperer, poetry-shouter. Rose Lesniak has written a one-of-a-kind book from a one-of-a-kind poet. What The Dogs Tell Me is poetry that is gentle and...

Poetry can be both intimidating and evocative. That's why Dana Huneke-Stone writes bite sized phrases designed to hit home as simply as possible. Her poems remind us that life is finite, loss is inevitable, beauty is fleeting, and that it's possible to...

The poems in Trip, Stumble, and Rise examine what happens when loss and grief threaten to shatter faith. In the book, Dr. Kostalnick takes us on his journey from the beauty of everyday life through the diagnosis, and eventual loss, of a beloved...

Atmospheric poetry at its finest is found in Wearing Winter Gray. Lee Clark Zumpe sets his moods and draws forth evocative images and memories, and not a little emotion. Now and then a ray of light shines through his words, so that having...

There is tremendous power in words, and few writers can draw upon that power better than Lee Clark Zumpe. In "Feed Me Wicked Things" he summons topics ranging from the poignant horror of Srebrenica in the 1990s to the lynching trees of the 1890s,...

What happens when you pair a poet and a thriving singer-songwriter together? You get the marriage of intellect, artistry and a damn good book in your hands."If & When We Wake" is the product of winters and springs. It has been buried under snowpack,...

Saul is a shy, introverted cloud addict with self-esteem issues who, through sheer serendipity, meets Fern, the love of his life. Life, however, has a different rollercoaster of a plan in store for him. When old habits creep back into his routine, he...

This collection of poems is inspired by the stages of life. There are times of great joy and celebration as well as times of great sadness. The poetry that lies inside intends to show the best of the best, the worst of the worst, and the most mundane of...

"It seems love died with poetry / Would you like to resurrect them with me?"Poet Natalie Ann's second collection, "Library of Lost Lines" reexamines our most sacred histories -- mythos, love, and loss -- and does so introspectively, showcasing the...

DAAN! is a collection of unpretentious poems about everyday life, love, and loss. About mental health, nature, cats, and much more. It shows the joys, the pain, the struggles, and the victories of a chronically ill wheelchair user. DAAN!...

Black Girl Evolving is a powerful and evocative poetry collection that delves into the complexities of the black community, mental health, and the vital role of black women in society. Diana Townsend's vivid and raw voice, speaks to the struggles and...

Il y a quelque chose de triste et de mélancolique dans ces mots. On peut ressentir la douleur et la détresse de celui qui parle, celui qui se sent rejeté et incompris par les autres. C'est comme s'il était prisonnier de ses propres émotions, de sa propre...

"in their exemplary confessional style, nat raum consults the void in the abyss is staring back. this collection is an invitation into raum's personal gravity-a space exploring monotony, queerness, and disability with a stream-of-consciousness type...

"All is dark in cold arms lie Gaze to you an empty eye Fingers laced for our descending Beckon you come share my ending No, the heat comes not from shame You must, my love, take faith in flames" The graveyard awaits in rising mists while swirling...

SCOTT J. COUTURIER has distinguished himself with poems of uncanny beauty and dread, appearing in the pages of Spectral Realms, The Audient Void, Eternal Haunted Summer, and other journals of the Weird. His poems are singularly sensitive to the darker...

Reading A True Soul is like having open-heart surgery on Christmas morning. It's a hug when you're bleeding. It's laughing at the accident on the side of the road. Helena Borden's poems are at once dark but inspirational, deeply sad yet bright and...

<p><strong>Sarah Carey's debut poetry collection, <em>The Grief Committee Minutes</em>, is a lyrical exploration of loss, memory, and environmental and human connections.</strong> This thoughtfully curated volume takes...