Narrative theme: Environmental issues & natural wo Books

"Tales of the Sea-A Short Story Anthology" compiles the works of almost a dozen ocean-faring authors as they share both fictional and true-to-life accounts of adventures atop the blue horizon. Join us as we dive head first into shark infested waters,...

Lifting Stones is an autobiography of sorts; a travel journal where the poet travels in nature and into memories of love, hope, grief, and loss. "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards," wrote Søren Kierkegaard, and this is...

While she was gardening in a rural mobile home park outside Lexington, Kentucky, over a three-year period, author Pen Douglas came into contact with good Kentucky soil, vegetables, flowers-and a large number of "nature neighbors." Some of these last were...

Poet Linda Buckley's beautiful collection Made of Rain plunges us, with piercing clarity and vibrant immediacy, into the heart of her Alaskan landscape: her birds, her vivid and various musics, and her abiding, blessed Wild. The book is divided...

Praise for Blood and Roses:"Beautiful poetry! A must for all vampires and vampire lovers." -Verified Reviewer"Jack Townson has officially replaced Edgar Allan Poe as my favorite poet." -Jami J. Russell, Tiktok Influencer "I really enjoyed this book! A...

Divorcing Flowers Review:Like the talking flowers of Wonderland, the garden Bacchus has planted in this book speaks for itself. Each poem, each flower is carefully shaped and nurtured by the poet's hand and, just like in nature, no two are identical...

'The best of all Montgomery's poems: in idea the most original, in execution the most powerful...' Blackwood's MagazineSouth Australia's exquisite natural gem, Kangaroo Island, has been inspiring locals for well over a century, and is now...

Amador Publishers is proud to issue this new edition of a singular work of scholarship on a singular poet, Kenneth Rexroth. Professor Donald Gutierrez, in presenting Rexroth as a major American poet, brings to bear his own artistic sensibility, his...

wild is she is a poetic collection of imagery and words joined togetherto tell a story of beauty and diversity, discovering the wild and unknown.in celebration of the imperfect, charming & peculiar, wilder exploresthe art of adventure and leaves it...

Universal Breaths is a collection of poetry that attempts to give perspective into life's balancing patterns. Every life, year, day, or moment, will have its hills and valleys. These can be seen as the inhales and exhales that create the breath which...

Poetry about explorations and first impressions. Arriving into a new city and new phase in life. Exploring the juncture of river and sea, Porto Portugal. Finding presence and promise of self in moments of subtle observation. Poetry for the soul.

Emerging from the busy onrush of today's published verse, the eager torrent of language that comprises contemporary poetry in the US, Tarantula Season, a first collection by the New Mexico poet DB Jonas, solicits attention to quieter pleasures, to the...

This book of poems documents my initial winter in Vermont, from the first day of the season to the last. Detailed descriptions and vivid experiences seek to bring the reader into the deep, enchanting environments in the Green Mountain State.

My memory is a wasp-paper-thin wings, dies in a clap.Dive into Of Wander & Wild, a collection of poems which will submerge you in delight and wonder. Discover yourself through the vast and dynamic phases of nature. See this book as an opportunity to...

An anthology of ecologically oriented poetry and commentary by 140 contemporary writers from a wide range of bioregions, nations, and life situations who include the more-than-human world in their vision of accountability.

Climate change, food insecurity, carbon footprints, environmental justice, global warming-questions of staggering consequence that inflame emotions, generate fierce debate, and resist quick fixes and easy answers.West tackles these complicated issues...

Will Climate Change stimulate global action?The novel concentrates, initially,on the years around 4000. A totally different society has evolved from past ecological and environmental mistakes.It is a time of strict expectations following the devastation...

2023 World Fantasy Finalist.A HAUNTED HOUSE FOR THE CLIMATE CHANGE ERA.On the island of Sri Lanka, at a colonial mansion between the forest and the paddy fields, a caretaker arrives with four children in tow after pledging to keep them safe. When violent...

Joanna van Kool obtained a Masters in Creative Writing from Sydney University and has been writing in various forms for many years. Inspired by John Sinclair, the man who fought to save Fraser Island from sand mining, this coming-of-age novel is set...

"Landscape of a Marriage is a historical fiction masterpiece. Mary and Fred's relationship is wonderfully depicted and the history that is woven into this book is done so intricately and commendably." -Ellie Yarde, reviewer for the...

This is one book in a set of 4 books of poetry and one book of rhymes, limericks, and doggerels. The author draws from nature, his experiences, imagination, and divine inspiration. The content ranges from light and playful, to vivid, to poignant, to...

Devil in the Pines collects documentation from 1873-74, the height of the lumbering boom in the Inland Seas Region, and serves as not only a troubling account of the destructive impact humans can have on the environment, but as a hopeful reminder of...

Rogers focuses on the seldom discussed topic of Black "blood" in the white race. By exposing the extensive intermixture and intermarriage of Blacks and whites, Rogers attacks racist thought at its roots.

As a naturalist and poet, Cindy interprets the things she observes in nature in unique and reflective ways.  This book of poetry captures her ordinary, yet always extraordinary, encounters with the natural world while on countless walks at her own...

Poet Ajit Sripad Rao Nalkur has been writing since age eleven and was initially inspired by the poor of the city in which he was raised. Throughout his many travels, he came to love the country folk he met. This empathy for the underprivileged, along...

Winner of the Blue Light Book AwardMark Tate is the author of three previous books of poetry Pommes de Terre (2001), Sur lie* (2002), and Rooms and Doorways (2003), and three novels, Beside the River, and its sequel River's End (McCaa Books, 2021), and...

In Ghostlight, a long-awaited second collection of original poems by Ryan Wilson, considers the haunting of the contemporary mind. With virtuosic formal variety and masterful craft, these poems range from rural America to Italy to the Holy Land, as they...

I got full, and emptied myself into my first book. And yet I still have more in me, I think that's how we work as humans, we get full over a decade or so and then we have to pour some out, and sometimes if we are lucky what we pour out is beautiful...

In Minjerribah, Brisbane poet Madeleine Onraet reveals poems written over twenty years visiting North Stradbroke Island with her growing family. Minjerribah is a personal response to this unique landscape, teaching us to listen...

Revival of an Ancient ArtEkphrasis is Greek for "speak out" and came to refer to a detailed description of a work of art as does ekphrastic poetry today. Visual Verse is a fresh and unique approach to this concept with a variety of 47...

"Understanding Environmental and Public Health Laws in Liberia" is a comprehensive and insightful exploration of the legal frameworks governing environmental protection and public health in the Republic of Liberia. Written by Mogana S. Flomo, Jr., a...

Born in Rawalpindi (now in Pakistan) Avtar Singh migrated to Jalandhar city after witnessing the horrific massacres of the partition of India in 1947 at the tender age of nine which left a lasting impact on his mind. He was educated in Urdu medium up to...

In Luke Levi's newest poetry collection, the focus is on the fragile and beautiful aspects of life and nature. Using direct words and vivid imagery, these short poems involve the natural world with sometimes a hint of spirituality. With settings ranging...

In his third book this year, Matt Brand explores themes of ephemerality and reflection, turning a book of poems into an exhibition space of impressionistic tableaus. As in the author's prior collections, time and our relationship to it still take center...

"My grandparents went to Pacific Grove and all I got was this wonderful coloring book."The latest prize from Joyce Krieg, author, and Keith Larsen (artist) is a delightful journey we take along with a brother-and-sister team of Monarchs who have come to...

The granddaughter of Scandinavian pioneers, Lauraine Wagner was born in 1926 in Holyoke, CO. You can feel the lonely high plains sky and the weight of the mountains in her writing.  Most of her poetry was written later in her life, and with...

Science and poetry cross paths in this 10th-anniversary edition of Swain's debut collection, now featuring 20 pages of new work.Darwin's Microscope, Swain's debut volume of poetry, was first published in 2009 by Flambard Press. It is now in a...

Walking and movement artists often stumble when they describe the modes and registers of perception and expression they adopt in their practice. The attempt to represent their experience can end in a kind of somatic soup. Crab &...

Walt Whitman was born in 1819, and from an early age evinced an intense curiosity and wonder in the miracle of Existence, and its ultimate meaning. In his collection of poems, Leaves of Grass, Whitman brings a new voice to America Literature - a voice...

Nudo gordiano es un poemario dedicado especialmente a la Isla de Cuba y a la pasión del autor por la Botánica. A pesar del "nudo en la garganta", "sobre nuestros pasos", la isla hecha nudos, el pecho hecho nudo por el dolor, el autor no hace otra...

A 95-YEAR-OLD TUSKEGEE AIRMAN intends to become the oldest known person to complete the iconic 40-mile trek to Everest Base Camp.Raymond Ulysses Ledbetter is an impossibility of humanity. After narrowly surviving the crash of his P-51 Mustang into the...

Drawn on the same model and to the same proportions as classic journeys of a hero, this is the story of Clayton Ian McIver.His father worked in the citrus industry before Greening Disease, a bacteria plague-like that of "scorpions of the...

A bartender. An environmentalist. A fishmonger. An orphan. A love letter to a Montauk under threat.

Metaphorest is a neologism created by Martin Settle the author of this work by the same name. It is the synthesis of words metaphor and forest. The themes of The Metaphorest fit into many of the new words and terms that are becoming salient in these...