Narrative theme: Environmental issues & natural wo Books

In this dazzling debut poetry collection of over 60 carefully selected poems, author Selma Martin points the way to the beauty in the everyday, the shadow of the rainbow, and the silver lining at the edge of every cloud. Favouring lyrical forms, and...

A joyous collection of poetry exploring the human connection with the natural world - from the small miracles and tragedies of the garden to the grander impact of fields and lanes; coloured by the animals and seasons that inhabit them.

The devastating Black Rain has transformed the once-lush land into an arid wasteland, turning all water into a gel-like substance across the globe. Fresh, drinkable water has become the planet's most precious commodity, sought after by all. Some have...

2014-2019: 46 states, 7 crisscrossing swings from east to west, one conclusion.Smarter Phoneless, Sean P. Dwyer’s third book, is a thrilling first person ode to old-fashion travel practices upon the cusp of modernity. It details...

Cloud watching is in danger of becoming a lost art form like the old silent movies, remembering Charlie Chaplin, the sweet little man with a bowler hat, mustache, and cane, or those magical characters of pantomime in extravagant costumes performing in...

Each poem within this collection, whether historically based, fictional, or fantasy, has some connection with or to my father's sacred ground, the Old Mill Creek; founded in 1861, the 2,500-acre nature preserve is Ohio's first district park. Your reading...

A collection of poetry reflecting on themes of faith, family, seasons and life's challenges and victories. The descriptive language provokes the imagination, setting a tone to produce vivid images. The curious rhymes will surprise and delight readers as...

Sky gone is an articulate examination of the loss of a parent through the lens of metaphor. It moves throughout the year following a father's death. Using the disappearance of the sky as a metaphor, the author compares grief to the world of nature in...

Covering the full and rich experiences of a woman’s life, this collection includes poems that were nominated for Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net awards. Some poems were also included in exhibitions, such as the Poetry Leaves exhibit in...

Crow Mind is a wide-ranging poetic meditation on the delights and curiosities of relations between our kind and corvids—two smart but very different creatures eyeing each other. It’s a backyard conversation, a research project, a warning, a...

A collection of poems focusing on the narrator's various interpersonal relationships, hardships, and the gradual realization of themselves as an autonomous and independent being. The One In Which Bambi Tells Me To Get A Life also meditates on personal,...

Rabi Satapathy's first collection "Abujha Pakshira Geeta" is the winner of the Black Eagle Books' "First Book Award" for 2020. The collection has 58 poems, each poem demands to be read aloud-lines of perfect.

Would YOU be chosen?After a global outbreak that threatens to decimate the planet, Australian scientists select a group of highly skilled young people to establish a sustainable island community built on the modern values of equity, diversity, and...

The world sits on the precipice of social unrest, economic uncertainty and a pandemic of historic proportions. We are at a place as a civilization that has up to now been conjured only in the works of fiction. But here we are. I have to ask, how much of...

In Snow Hangs on the Branches of Evergreens, Stuart P. Radowitz gives the reader a remarkable gift, a gift of beautiful poems, each a sparkling faceted gem, evoking in ripples of memory the shadow architecture of life, each place a moment with all the...

The seventy-four poems in Lucille Lang Day’s Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place take the reader on a journey across continents, seas, and time itself. Charged with a lyricism that is at the same time tough and vulnerable, the poems...

Poetic Parables is a rare and unique book of stories to describe spending time with God in the setting of majestic beauty found in nature. Each story captures poetry in motion.Poetic Parables was written during many months of intense spiritual...

This collection of poems, prose and photos reflects an exploration of a theory that re-frames God as the infinite and eternal energy field, and the soul as an individual energy cell within that field. We souls have embarked upon a voyage that...

The Island, The Mountain, & The Nightblooming Field honors a human connection with the natural world. There is more than one beginning to this story, and there is also more than one way to understand an island. And we learn, too, the many ways there...

Our future isn't dried up yet, but its shape is not like you imagine.Reckoning is a nonprofit, annual journal of creative writing on environmental justice. Reckoning 4, guest-edited by Danika Dinsmore and (the Hugo, Nebula and Locus Award nominated!)...

Margaret Noodin explains in the preface of her new poetry collection, What the Chickadee Knows (Gijigijigaaneshiinh Gikendaan), "Whether we hear giji-giji-gaane-shii-shii or chick-a-dee-dee-dee depends on how we have been taught to listen. Our world...

Partway to Geophany, the latest collection by celebrated poet Brendan Galvin, chronicles the waxing and waning of the year in a small seacoast town on Cape Cod, alongside observations of other beloved places. As a naturalist and environmentalist, Galvin...

A speculative memoir in experimental poetry, "the vulture girl" begins with the odd allegation of the author's mother that the she had been (unbeknownst to her) born a twin. This begins a line of introspection that introduces the reader to a handful of...

At the intersection of poetry and prose, Sharon White's The Body Is Burden and Delight examines ecological communities in fragile northern landscapes, and in the geography of the poet's daily life. Moving from Denmark and Sweden, to Lithuania, Shetland,...

As architectural intern Amalia Sengupta Erenwine grapples with her nascent career in New York City and the consequences of her new relationship, her friend the Reverend Mildred McCaine plans a panel about medical marijuana at her Binghamton church. When...

Immerse yourself in the symbolic world of flower people, journeying through the full life cycle in Always Never Sometimes: Roots to Fruits. This complete collection unifies all four parts of the series-Roots, Breakthroughs, Blooms, and Fruits-each...

The Covid-19 pandemic inspired me to write my first book of poetry, works of related prose, and a few prayers. Poetry is often born during hard times as it is a way for us to express our grief about what is occurring while reaching out to others feeling...

Lily York has slipped away from the ever-present bustle of Hollywood for the quiet comforts of Orpheus Island. She was looking for some rest and relaxation off the coast of Austrailia, but fate had made other arrangements. First she has to deal with a...

In this comprehensive collection of poetry, you are immersed in a world of exploration and mischief, discovering that shadows are nothing to fear and pain is often the scalpel that carves the strongest of people. There will be gut wrenching truths,...

In Growing Gills, poet Kassi Wilson draws upon her childhood experience as a bright-eyed girl, in her swimsuit from sunup to sundown, playing in the lake steps from her home. Gills is a metaphor for breathing. Water becomes a mystical realm for...

Poetry Takes Flight is James Roethe's second book about birds and his first book of poetry.  The book is intended to provide the reader with a bit of knowledge about the birds of Northern California and, hopefully, some understanding of why so...

Human life on this planet has started with hunting. Hunting is also an interesting subject of Urdu popular literature. The reader becomes engrossed in the hunting stories and loses all sense of time and place as a result of their excitement, intrigue,...

Growing up in the lagoon town of Batticaloa, a young girl, with an unquenchable curiosity and love of the natural world, is entangled in the trauma and turmoil of the Sri Lankan civil war. Uprooted from everything she holds dear, tragedy and betrayal set...

This collection of poems captures the struggles with mental health, heartbreak, and love on a long and desolate road fraught with uncertainty. This is the story of The Lonely Penguin, born from a place of brokenness. When all hope is scarce there...

Wild Brujeria is a poetry collection on the magick of living between the lines of identity.What does being Mexican American mestizo, hard-of-hearing, narcoleptic, sapphic, and gender-queer have in common? That there is no suitable box in society for me...

These poems by an undiscovered Minnesota author, celebrate nature, music, love and loss, plus a lovely short story, all conjuring a snapshot of the mid-twentieth century. June Skjervold's dedication to "everyday poets" offers the best insight to...

Poems of moons that sail and elders spry; of critters that talk and bees that ask why; of lovelorn lovers and chess players wry; of brothers that laugh and daughters that cry; and that mystical maiden -- Lorelei. To top it off, we look to the sky, to...

The Golden Shovel, a poetic form invented by Terrence Hayes, has a direct connection to the poet's subconscious. The speaker of these poems has a lifelong quarrel with society's inequalities but finds solace and renewal by spending time in gardens and on...

Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award.An owl caught Zach Hively going from a wedding to a gravedigging. From that encounter sprouted this series of poems and illustrations. Owl Poems grapples with ancestral loneliness and intense natural...