Narrative theme: Environmental issues & natural wo Books

What legacy will YOU leave for future generations?Determined to improve the lives of the people in all communities, Caitlin nurtures the link between the onshore domes and the underwater ones--connecting everyone in this new world. Committed to leaving a...

If anyone ever says that life is simple, they're lying. Time, Change, and Other Things That Don't Fit Into Boxes, is an honest look at the messy, the complex, the bittersweet. It's a reflective exploration of the gray areas of life - time, change,...

A tribal old man, after the demise of his beloved wife considered an age old giant mango tree as his lone friend in the world. Most of the local labourers declined to cut off the tree as asked for by the new owner of the land on which the tree stood as...

Le liriche che ho raccolto nella presente antologia sono nella loro, pur acerba ma compatta, sostanza poesie d'amore, sospese sulla lama doppia della tenerezza e della passione. Tra i versi non manca mai il riflesso intenso, speculativo e consolatorio...

URANIUM MINE And Other Stories by Jed Linde.From birth to old age, these seven "Charles" stories chronicle a daunting childhood; an adventurous and painful adolescence; a survival saga in Mexico City; learning from a Zen master; and benefiting from...

This book is a collection of poems and other writings which Julain Krahn began writing for her own enjoyment. She began sharing them with her family and a few others, and they are now being shared more widely here. They are intended to bring inspiration,...

1st Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2022In Tracking the Fox, Rosalie Sanara Petrouske weaves a tale of family ties and history. The poems are steeped in her Native American heritage and in the natural lore her Ojibwe father taught her...

Church of the Robin’s Ha-Ha!, the title poem of this collection, underscores John Burroughs’ essentially religious connection to nature. For the famed Catskill naturalist and writer, “heaven on earth” was no mere cliché,...

Libby Bernardin's poems summon a landscape of vivid imagining—her birds, skies, stars, and wind. Yet these are not merely poems of the outer natural world, no matter how beautifully they render it. Stones Ripe for Sowing has immense inner life...

A journalist, either print or broadcast, is trained in the use of observation to help tell a story. It's always the little things that give context to the tale told, and clarity to the certainties contained in journalism 101's five "W's," and the lonely...

Winter is a season of frozen beauty and the slowing of time, as a white breath falls against the browning leaves and winter tightens her grip over the sleeping landscape. It is a time of solitude and reflection as people and animals shelter from the cold...

Françoise Hélène walks readers through a reflective journey. Her poetry is a collection of raw sentiments, reminding readers to explore new life perspectives and think differently. In this book, the author explores the connection that inspiration can...

A journey in poetry through the seasons of the Earth - the changes of the months as well as the turnings of the times. A collection that revels in the connections between nature and humankind, that finds wisdom and wonder in the seasonal spin of our...

Beneath the willow tree in their backyard has always been the place where Margaret Dowling has gathered her four daughters to share her life's wisdom. Now terminally ill, she brings them back together under the tree to disclose her news-and make a final...

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

In this third poetry collection, Illustrious for Brief Moments offers the reader a world passionately crafted, drawing richly on both outer and inner landscapes. These poems move through seasons of heartbreak and grief, as well as compassion, connection,...

From the forests of Northern Wisconsin comes Lines from Upstream: Volume II, a collection of whimsical, rhyming stories about hunting, the joy of the pursuit, and life in the Northwoods.Contents:The Hunting MachineAbby and the Insidious WantJordan...

Legends are somewhat deceitful.Leaving no room for sequels.Books never written.Stories never told.Until now.It is the late 1800s, and Paul Cunningham is about to establish himself as one of the most iconic American folklore figures of all time by logging...

Free Verse EditionsEdited by Jon ThompsonMore than any American poet now, Joshua McKinney is devoted to origins. A conservator of first things, an enthusiast for those early syllables brooding upon the compass-rose of language, he counsels joy, and he...

A little more than two thousand years ago, the Roman poet Virgil wrote his Georgics, a long poetic sequence about agriculture, suffused with profound reflections on the relationship between humanity, nature, and the divine-and reflecting the political...

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 brilliant new poetry collection from the winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize

""Notes On The Birds Of The Lower Petchora"" is a book written by Henry Seebohm in 1876. The book is a detailed account of the birds that inhabit the Lower Petchora region, which is located in the northern part of Russia. Seebohm was an English...

The Tears of the Earth, without pretence, practically holds court for environmental or eco-concerns with global ripples, staking a legitimate claim as a landmark tributary to the mainstream discourse and current debates on global warming and climate...

Frost & Fantasy: Winter Wonderland Coloring Book Magic with Fun FactsStep into a world of winter enchantment with Frost & Fantasy: Winter Wonderland Coloring Book Magic! This stunning seasonal coloring book offers a collection of beautiful,...

A life's journeyTo the center of the heartDone through poetryA story of adventureThrough the chapters of my lifeAnd the unexpected journeyI now find myself onGuided by the evolutionOf my dreamsThe first eleven poems of this book were written in my youth...

Is it possible for a boy to make friends with an old mango tree?Oh! Yes, it is possible! Read this book.You will be thrilled to find Amal, who is in his early teens, become the close friend of an old mango tree called Major. They live in the same campus...

Few poets can render a landscape, whether interior or exterior, more keenly and poignantly. Here is a poet who listens to language and lets it lead him into the heart of the poem with authority and grace.--Kathryn Stripling Byer, author of Wildwood...

Lake Cora is a beautiful spring-fed lake located in the cradle of southwest Michigan's orchards and vineyards. The lake is surrounded by a soft sandy shore, natural grasses, and stately trees. Though it is small and not widely known, locals...

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...

Ocean Suite is a new book of twenty-six poems that delves into the connections between sound, music and the language we use to understand our own baffling existence. Starting with the most elemental "voices" of nature-the crash of waves on the...

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...

This collection of personal lyrical reflections on life, love and nature is the result of a long and troubled reworking of thoughts and phrases dedicated to real and/or virtual friends and their comments on social media. Some phrases-poems were born in...

We live on a planet that is a thin place - a place where time and light continually intersect. And yet we are taught to experience life as thick. When we move intentionally through the thickness that surrounds us and perceive Light, we can begin to punch...

One word describes Louisiana fifty years from now after climate change intensifies: Soaked. A nearly silent Cajun man is the last speaker of Louisiana French but doesn't know what he is saying. A Vietnamese woman recovering from the trauma of war looks...

Nicoleta Taylor is an American author born in Transylvania, Romania, where her writing skills gained national recognition.  Terrans, her American poetry debut transcribes the broadcast of a human passenger of MotherShip Terra, our planet, that...

Introducing Perfectly Timeless Timing, a collection of poetry and a reading experience that can lift you out of your everyday limits in time, on a remarkable journey through certain human, natural and mysterious realities, when a sense of timelessness...

After the twilight ambience of The Dark Brightness, here comes Grassy Stairways. These poems and poetic sequences are often morning- born. Taylor at once meditates on and observes Alpine landscapes, wind, clearings or edges of woods, an alluring...

This is a short collection of poems by one of America's fine and widely published poets. It describes her close connection to nature and the land, her love of her animals, her relationship with the Tibetan Buddhists who live and work with her. She...

It is 2022. What can Katja and her five friends, all students at a university in Bath, do to turn the tables and save life on Earth from imminent destruction?Is technology the solution, or our downfall? The past and present are intertwined as the six...

A gentle book of poetry that takes the reader from glorious rose gardens to diverse Italian landscapes to ever-changing skies of sunsets and cloud covers. This collection of poetry is arranged in an easy to read fashion, each poem given space to speak...

These are inspirational verses and quotes, conceived out of very deep thought process and the burning desires to probe into the twist and turns that comes with life and living.It is an intriguing, satirically crafted, powerful and elegant piece of...

Viral Odes is a witty collection of poetry gathered during the 2020 Covid-19 crisis. Faced with this tight predicament, British poet Sharron Green brings to the surface the chaos and uncertainty of a long journey of self-discovery. Appropriately, the...

In Maine, people are either "from here," born and raised, or "from away." In LandTrust, Katherine Hagopian Berry explores what it means to learn the language of a place.  Spiraling out from poems of displacement, alienation, loss and futility,...

Two icebergs meet in the middle of the ocean. Violent winds sweep us all off the ground. A meditation on the world we have today and the world we might have tomorrow, or a comic about climate change that tries to weave together fear, sadness, and hope.

"An absorbing, restorative tale of community and nature." -Kirkus ReviewsLizzy has largely retreated from the world: she tends her adopted strays and goes to work, but she has forsaken lifelong pastimes and declines invitations from old friends. On...

This volume assembles poems produced over the last thirty-five years by writer/scholar E. L. Risden. Samples re-surface from earlier books and chapbooks: On Shakespeare, In Sonnets (Cambridge Scholars Press), A Second City Street Prophet Sings the Blues...