Poetry Books

This wide-ranging and moving collection of poems, first published in 1968, explores the meanings and manifestations of life and living, with all their joys and sorrows. As the author writes: "It is neither necessary nor desired, at least on my part, to...

Virgilio Goncalves has worked out, finally, why he has a nomadic bent. It's because a lot of the time he's seeking the tribe that truly typifies him. Is he South African, Australian or Portuguese? Place has loomed like a restless shadow in his life. But...

'Explorations of place and time make for a wonderful, prismatic journey... Following Rivers in Trees captures the movement of time and life, one moment eddying under bridges and the next sweeping diaspora. Ogiér Jones's latest collection traverses a rich...

This is Ron's first book. It took a while to get up the courage but he's pretty proud of it. The poems flow from seventy years of experience: farming childhood, love and sex, and travels of the world, of the word and of the mind.

‘To listen to South Australian poet Airlie Jane Kirkham’s latest collection is to listen to a musical mind at work. I greatly admire the way in which her poems evoke such delight in the life forces of nature, despite the restrictions of her...

'Elaine Barker analyses the natural world, the home and places beyond; not with the eye of the detached onlooker but compassionately inhabiting the minds of fellow travellers, from the tough tattooed man to the accident victim, from a baby in a shawl...

“James Finlay spits a vomitous wreck of black ink at social injustice, conspicuous consumption and inhuman violence. But there’s tenderness too –  the achingly poignant loss of a young child: ‘Not all fires catch / and some...

‘Raymond Evans’s poetry sings with lyricism. His poems melt and explode with love, lust and clear-eyed honesty, revealing the beautiful and brutal undercurrents of a passionate life.’ – Venero Armanno‘This collection offers...

‘A spacious walking meditation on place by an attentive and courageously permeable writer who has come to love this island as intensely as those of us bound to it by birth and ancestry and who has allowed its presence to inhabit and inform the...

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...

Stephen the Phlebotomist is about vampires, Jesus, and a year spent locked indoors. Written with unimaginable tenderness and humour, Lines' poetry explores the turbulence of student life and the love it facilitates.In this debut pamphlet, teenage trips...

the thought sits with me is Ruth Beddow's debut pamphlet. Exploring what it means to dwell, daydream and obsess, the collection charts the various rupture points and upheavals of youth.Opening in the crib of a suburban box room, the reader is ushered...

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...

Do you find yourself always hoping, striving and seeking for some better, happier, more perfect, peaceful and complete moment? Whilst at the same time trying ever so hard to keep your discomfort, your emotions, your pain and your difficulties as far away...

Reliquary Bestiary - poems & archivesIn Reliquary Bestiary, Mitali Khanna Sharma's luminous poetics purges ancient texts, colliding with tradition, faith and precious bodies of things.

A doctors captivating 'insider' poems.In doc.x poet and doctor Joanne Godley offers anonymous testament to the medical profession, in compelling poems that inflame and perturb.

Advice for Travelers & other poemsAileen Bassis dispenses unorthodox lyric advice for migrants, refugees, travelers and wanderers in a distinctive portmanteau of poems that delights and disturbs. 

These verses encourage you to be you. Going through life feeling like an unhappy fraud without self-love suggests an identity that doesn't fit. So, why not choose a new, perfectly fitted identity? If you have found your identity but hide your dreams and...

Many years ago, my Grade 1 student, Zhavago Jolly, then four years old explained that there is a difference between 'Like' and 'Love'. His explanation was that "Like', is when you talk about your friend, but 'Love' is when you give your friend roses and...

British Values: A Poetry Collection is the fourth collection from Catherine West-McGrath following Homesick for the North and Other Poetry, Lapsed Capitalist: A Poetry Collection and Optimistic Activist: Poetry and VerseThis collection contains sixty two...

A collaboration between an ethnographer, a bilingual poet, and an Anglo-Irish literature scholar, this multilingual volume includes 100 Likoos, a syllabic genre of oral poetry, in their original Roudbari, accompanied by English and Persian translations...

An Anthology selecting ten outstanding established and emerging voices from the Piscataqua watershed along the southernmost border of New Hampshire and Maine. It contains a mix of regional fiction writers, nonfiction writers and poets, each having a...

In his first collection in over 25 years, poet Martin Edmunds' Flame in a Stable is an alarmingly poignant and intelligent book of poems. Author of the National Poetry Series winning The High Road to Taos, Edmunds draws you in with each word like 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,...

"A vibrant imagination, a striking use of metaphor and symbol, and a sure grasp of form and nuance-all these elements make this book a memorable venture into cosmic terror."-S. T. Joshi Enter a world of desolate imagination, rhizomatic beauty, and...

In Felicia Mitchell's moving and insightful poetry collection, A Mother Speaks, A Daughter Listens, we're invited to share one mother-daughter dementia journey from the early days of a woman's life through years in a nursing home and also the...

This book came about because a boy broke my heart. And then I met a few other boys who also broke my heart. Then a wonderful man whom I loved dearly lost his life too soon. This is an attempt to let go.

On March 20, 2020, Rachel Devenish Ford started writing a poem a day, and she continued with this practice for an entire year. Her poetry is a gentle response to each day, like an answer in a conversation. Each one is a small, contained thing,...

Love Is What Love Does is an impetus for love, peace, unity, and freedom. Consider every poem in this book a stimulus for hope... the hope essential to embark on your journey towards freedom. Prepare to embrace much wisdom as you peruse the...

Lee, aprende y sumérgete en el mundo de la poesía infantil en español. Esta colección de poemas es para niños y jóvenes que están aprendiendo español o que quieren mejorar su fluidez lectora a través de la poesía. ¡Es también para todos aquellos a...

Selflessly Shattered is a young woman's poetic tale of the entanglements she experienced from adolescents into adulthood. These relationships full of toxicity were the result of chasing the love she learned from childhood. The author captures what many...

This book addresses love, life, and the wild intricacies of living in a world with contentious souls. Poems are short, simple, and vague enough for readers to insert themselves and their complicated lives into the spaces between and within the words.

Quo Vadis, a complex anthology of fascinating poems dedicated to love, life, peace as well as humanity and our planet Earth. True tides of love, tides of the Universe, enriched by deeply philosophical thoughts expressed in enchanting poetic verses by...

Wild, irreverent, absurd underground poetry from the mind of Daniel S. Irwin. Some vulgarity but no worse than one would find on television. Don't take it to Sunday School.

Through political manifestos and love letters to distant ancestors, Prayer Song is a meditation on the through-line connecting radical acts from prayers to protests. Alferos' excavation of a radical love informed by Black feminist and abolitionist work...

Words Speak Wisdom is an encouraging and revealing book of M Morale verse boosters, prose, and poetry that teach, inspire, and motivate.Every poem, verse, and narrative prose in this heartwarming book will provide you with very wise thoughts and insights...

Diego Dominguez, Artista, nació en la ciudad de Chicago en el año 1965. Sin embargo, su infancia y adolescencia transcurrieron en Venezuela, donde tuvo la oportunidad de estudiar y sumergirse en el mundo del arte y desarrollar su creatividad. En 1987,...

ZEMSTA ARCHANIOŁA... Rewelacyjny dramat napisany językiem poetyckim.GNIEW ARCHANIOŁA MICHAŁA... STRĄCENIE ARCHANIOŁÓW DO CESARSTWA RZYMSKIEGO PRZEZ NIEGO...STRĄCENI ARCHANIOŁOWIE STAÔĄ SIĘ GLADIATORAMI... ZNIEWAŻANI PRZEZ CESARZA DONALDA, KTÓRY OKRZYKNĄŁ...

"WATEH1CA... That Which You Hold Dear..." Book II is a larger collection of poems and short stories ...both books are filled with historical, cultural, and humorous stories, some very old, some contemporary...

Señor, el ayer ya pasó y con él se fueron esas bellas tradiciones, esas en las que ante mí, usted se quitaba el sombrero. Hoy soy yo la que ante usted, caballero, se quita el sombrero. Es por eso que hoy escribí este libro dedicado a esos bellos...

she was unexpected. part strips of paper, part shards of glass, she was a delicate step between two very different yet familiar fragile edges. the contrast between the two is comparable to the vastly differing interpretations of the color yellow. on one...

A POETRY COLLECTION for LOVERSAll of the Willows: Love Poems to Read in Bed is a curated collection of poems and writings that explores the beautiful, painful and colorful spectrum that is LOVE.  "The price of my heart was my mind, and...

[this collection, stead.fast.sad.ness,is meant to be about uncomfortable pain,devastating narratives;that only. utter.truth           &some light,a lot of darkness too.this is- my story...

Whenever we look back, we miss many things. Many people are missed and many stories are also remembered. Some memories make us laugh and some make us cry. The people who left us cannot come back but some feelings which we cannot explain are compiled in...

The Morning Glow, a collection of selected poems by some minor poets in contemporary China, is the seventh book edition of the Muse of Light series in both Chinese and English. The translation and publication of these poems are intended to bring the...

《瞭望的风车》收录了梦娜近20年来不同时期的现代诗歌。梦娜是兼写现代诗与近体诗词的诗人，讲究诗歌的画面感、意境、语境的思想性，哲理性，简练通达，触及心灵。掠过人生的光影，表现深刻的思想和不同的境界，用朴实的诗句反映深层次的社会现象，揭露、抨击丑恶，呼唤善良、爱、平等、和平。她用笔讲究，穿越季节和时空，既有阳光明媚的色彩，也有春雨绵绵的忧伤。这也是她的诗歌内容之所以宽阔、广泛、深刻又通俗易懂的原因，融合中西文化的精髓，蕴含着丰富的精神资源和人文关怀。有评论这样评论："梦娜写诗就是一绝，无论什么题材，一挥而就...

Takes the mystery and intimidation out of beginning to write haiku as a spiritual practice. Provides helpful hints and step-by-step exercises to broaden and deepen both your haiku artistry and your appreciation of haiku as part of your spiritual life.