Narrative theme: Love & relationships Books

This collection explores many aspects of life and our internal dialogues within the themes of nature, the experience of women in the world and family.Gomes is a poet who places nature at the heart of her work, with the first collection focusing on...

If growth had a colourWhat would it be?The whitewash of loveOr the deep blues of grief?Or buttery yellowsFrom when we're at peace?Would growth be inked out in blackFrom the rages it's seen?Maybe... perhaps growth is just green.A bit brown at the rootsAnd...

"Before we knew each other, we knew each other, we didn't speak to one another, yet we spoke to one another, we hadn't met, but we had known each other this whole time; and in our start, we completed each other with the void that was meant for each other...

"A masterful look at control and manipulation" - Jess KitchingAfter receiving a substantial inheritance, thirty-seven-year-old aspiring writer, Theresa, moves to the High Country of Victoria, Australia, to finally write the novel she had always...

The King of Iron HeartsIs a fable nowA tale they tell childrenAbout a man made of metalWhose heart burned so boldlyIt melted him from the inside outThis is a book about a man who feels too much and the woman who loves him. Divided into four parts, it...

In the realm of verses, have you ever been lost, puzzled, or confused? Fear not, all the complexity, and the weight it may bear for this book, is easy, as gentle as air. Like meeting an old friend after years apart, a conversation unfolding, a balm to...

Reimagining the iconic Mexican artist's life and relationships, Stephen Gibson's Frida Kahlo in Fort Lauderdale explores Kahlo's passions and pains through vivid persona poems. Realized entirely in a modified triolet form, the collection is essentially...

Through their cinematic storytelling, the poems in John Philip Drury's The Teller's Cage swell the heart and the imagination. The book opens with baseball and culminates with persona poems starring the poet's mother, along the way unraveling factual and...

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...

Hello to all my exes, is a collection of poems about love and heartbreak. They are letters that you wish you could write, last words that you could say, feelings of gratitude that you could give - to yourself and others during eventual goodbyes.because...

Cowritten by mother-son duo Meryl and Noah Humphrey(Knowa Know), My Dream Carried Love is about the Humphrey matriarch's family line, faith, work ethic, and the reflection of her own growth. As a poetry book about what Meryl Humphrey calls, "My...

The Road We Take is an encore to Barry Lee Swanson's critically acclaimed, best-selling novel Still Points. A poetic portrait of a journey spanning the past seven decades, it provides the reader with a first-hand view of one baby boomer's life...

Penned during a season in Greece, this collection of poetry, photographs, and visual art is a study in different notions of tenderness & connection. How do humans love one another? The Numinous? Flora and fauna? The world at large? What can love...

J. Azules Amor's 'Fuego' Erotic Poetry, Passion, and Romance tells a story of romance and passion. Love is powerful. And from it can betwixt a plethora of emotions. Obviously it goes beyond love and understanding because love songs, poetry, philosophers...

Can she be who she is? Or is it forbidden?What Marsha Melinda Martin once believed she could be has vanished, and she has almost stopped caring.Then a man claiming to be her father comes to town, bringing back memories she thought she had forgotten and...

207th Bone is a collection of poetry about life in the city in modern China, about nature, sometimes very explicit and sexual, sometimes everyday-about love and death. It is about finding meaning among millions of people and finding love in loneliness...

I am the "humbler poet,"Humble in words and humble in thought.I pen in a simple way,Whether ever to be read, or not.Who is to say what is pleasing?Who is to judge what is trite?The greatest poet on earth might beA man never taught to write.Excerpt from...

A dramatic cantata, this new version of the Hebrew bible's Song of Songs speaks three distinct voices-none of them royal. Israel's king appears in allusion, as the proverbial man of wealth and power. Here, Solomon's royal splendor pales before the...

Sidewalk Tales is a compilations of seventeen short stories about events that happened in my life and were centered around happening on sidewalks. I always wanted to write about my life story because I felt that I could help someone who might have gone...

John Roberts has the risky habit of infidelity, but it isn’t adult John Roberts running his life, it’s John the indignant and angry teenager. At 17, his secret girlfriend becomes pregnant, and both fathers put an end to the relationship...

These poems are about the trial of finding love in a world of a rush, where nobody has time even to go out for a coffee. The story is as old as humanity, although one might reckon the play has changed a bit. Just a little bit. Priorities have rearranged,...

This book is to give children a way to understand the loss of a loved one. It also gives parents and guardians a way to understand why it may be more important to explain this cycle of life and the death process to children.

The author is a continuously celebrating child-man who grew up (but not completely) in Hannibal, Missouri in the '50s and '60s. Influenced and inspired by both the power and the majestic beauty of the Mississippi River, he draws on its surrounding...

The Deep and Wild Blue is a collection of poems about desire in its raw and purest feminine form. They are about self love, to always strive for being your truest and most authentic self, even if that doesn't fit into a societal mold or expectation...

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...

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...

In Open The Fist, the poet navigates the primal impulses of sexuality, violation and reclamation. She shines a light into the dark corners of her family dynamics, grappling with what it means to be born a girl, to survive into womanhood and to look back...

And isn't the story of our lives the story of our women, the mythology we have lived and been bequeathed? Anna Mae Perillo's INHERITANCE OF COURAGE AND FEAR speaks, sings through memory and desire. Duality is here in these poems, excavated and resolved...

Hiromi Yoshida’s debut poetry chapbook, Icarus Burning, offers a tantalizing glimpse into the post-9/11 world of fallen icons, failed hook-ups, and burning pianos. Out of this ash heap, Icarus is resurrected as the signifier of fluctuating...

Set along lonely highways, the voices within When the Body is a Guardrail are restless and searching—these poems are seeking new ways of seeing, of being, of interpreting what it means to be human. Too often we treat life like a highway, like an...

This flash fiction novella, The Grief Manuscript, illustrates the dream-like, annihilating, and repetitive gestures of a dying marriage. The story recasts the emotional range of grief using metaphorical images and remarkable characters in brief, poetic...

My Pet Sounds Off “translates” 35 popular Beach Boys songs from English to English, updating, editorializing, and fooling around with the poppy lyrics of the world’s favorite surf band. Put on your sunscreen. Pull out the deck...

Set in the heat of summer in a tiny bar in Provincetown on Cape Cod, these sensual poems are replete with sea air and moonlit skin. This book is a moonflower, blooming on the surface of a watery meditation.The collection inhabits a narrow space between...

Not to disrespect the many great works of art in books by authors for centuries, but other than the Bible for those who believe, never in my lifetime have I ever seen or read a more powerful life-changing tool. This work of art specializes in using easy...

Inspirational, spiritual, thought-provoking, sensitive, sexual, and risqué are a few words that describe the expressive themes in this book. The author shares intimate experiences that delve deeply into her life story. Each poem contains pieces of her...

ମନୋରଞ୍ଜନର କବିତା 'ଚାହାରେ ଟିକେ ସର ପକେଇଲା ପରି' ।- ଜୟନ୍ତ ମହାପାତ୍ରମନୋରଞ୍ଜନ 'ଅଳ୍ପ ଲେଖି ସିଦ୍ଧ' ।- ରାଜେନ୍ଦ୍ର କିଶୋର ପଣ୍ଡାକୌଣସି ବାଦ, ତତ୍ତ୍ୱ ବା କୌଣସି ନିର୍ଦ୍ଦିଷ୍ଟ ବିଚାରଧାରାର ଊର୍ଦ୍ଧ୍ୱରେ ବିଶେଷକରି, ଚାପମୁକ୍ତ ମନୋରଞ୍ଜନର କବିତା ।- ରାମଚନ୍ଦ୍ର ବେହେରାକବିତା 'ଜେଜେଙ୍କ ଚଷମା'ର ଗୋଟେ...

Dinosaur Bones collects poems written by Michael Burke over his career as an acclaimed visual artist. Many of these poems tell a story. "I Made A List" travels from Mabel's breast to a 10,000-foot-high observatory In Hawaii, to the deepest point in the...

Father Richard has settled into his new parish, Our Lady of Damascus Catholic Church, in the peaceful Appalachian mountains of North Carolina. It's a far cry from New York City, his home for most of his life, but a married couple in his parish, Janet and...

In Man at the Railing, the 2022 winner of the Laura Boss Narrative Poetry Award, Edwin Romond explores how "joy and loss join hands across our lifetime." Drawing upon his family experiences, his four decades in public education, and his love of music and...

In a house filled with darkness, a woman battles to find her way out . . .After a seemingly perfect start to their relationship, Emma marries Simon. But as soon as they return from the honeymoon, Simon changes. He forbids Emma from seeing...

His wife is leaving him. He’s just won the lottery. Does she really need to know? A hilarious debut novel of love, luck, and hard-to-keep secrets . . .A thirty-something English teacher and amateur linguist, Jack just about makes...

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Most of these poems are from the direct experience of the author, be it working at a mine or in mineral exploration, mostly in Canada but also in Latin America, or with my family and including both sorrow and joy with the short life of my son, or...

In Atomizer, Elizabeth A. I. Powell examines pressing questions of today, from equality and political unrest to the diminishing of democratic ideals, asking if it is even appropriate to write about love in a time seemingly hurtling toward...

Love may be blind, but obsession's a real killer. Nora Holliday is not that kind of woman. Not the kind who has an illicit affair with a married man. But Josh Landon is everything Nora's alcoholic husband isn't. And now she and Josh are so infatuated,...

The usual suspects gather. The splendour of the natural world surrounding it cannot fail to inspire. Changing seasons bring varying outlooks. Whether in the wilderness or just looking upon the garden.Family interactions feature in this collection, some...