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David Briggs' new collection offers a midlife counterpart to the Oedipus complex exploring themes of family ties, nostalgia and retreat, ageing and mortality, acts of memorial and the impulse towards hospitality.

Katy-Evans Bush's third full collection addresses the present chaotic political times with anger, intelligence, humour and a bracing honesty that lets no one off the hook.

New poetry anthology from Sunday Times bestselling poet, mental health campaigner, performerand producer.

For the last four years Nandi Chinna has walked the wetlands of the Swan Coastal Plain--and the paths and streets where the wetlands once were--uncovering the lost places that exist beneath the townscape of Perth. She writes with poignancy and beauty of our inability to return, and the ways in which we can use the dual practice of writing and walking to reclaim what we have lost. Her poems speak with urgency about wetlands that are under threat from development today.

Keane peels back layers with unbridled intensity, refusing to be mild in her exploration.From Palemode comes Dream Station, the captivating poetry collection by author Adeleine Keane. Unveil the depths of the human psyche as Keane fearlessly explores themes of love, loss, pain, and desire, offering a profound journey into the fractured realms of the mind.Immerse yourself in the vivid tales of trauma intricately woven through lyrical storytelling and abstract allusions. In the haunting landscape of Dream Station, Keane unearths the raw realities of depravity and human nature, providing a thought-provoking odyssey that resonates with readers on a profound level. Discover the melodic prose that transcends traditional boundaries as Keane speaks to readers who yearn for something more profound.

new words issue three is published by new words {press} three times per year. new words {press} is an independent poetry press dedicated to elevating the voices of trans & gender-expansive poets, building community, and sharing knowledge. issue three features the work of 39 poets ranging from traditional free verse to hybrid, visual work. Poets in issue three include: K . AngelHarrison BlakeSamuel ClarkRivka CliftonClaire CollinsCaroline (Caro) CrawfordMiles CrugerGray Davidson CarrollJustin DemeterDante Émilegriffin epsteinHamsa FaeJude FireSongT. FriendRobin GowIsabel GreyDante HookeyChriss LockerLee Martínez SotoBlake MihmCari MollRisha NicoleMary Olivanti-DuerksenAndy Parker 茂欢微Rumi PetersenAlexandria PietteRiverFinn RoseFern RoushNayt RundquistMicah ScheffKyle Scottt love smithElle Jay SnyderLiam StrongAnastasia WalkerHarper WaltonAndie WoodardCaitie Young & Art by Zyra West

THE DIARY OF A MODERN POET. is a collection of poetry based on self-discovery, navigating heartbreak, trauma, and all things in between.

Do you know that you can be the one to kill your dreams? Do not count yourself out before you take the first step. The things you go through in life are to take you to your next destination.

Twenty years. Four apartments. This poetry collection is a Rust Belt love story about independence, roommates, loneliness, and life in America. Unlock the door, flip the switch, and make yourself at home.

The debut poetry collection of artist Daniel Mitsui contains forty religious poems on the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, following the sequence of the liturgical year.These poems are written in rhyme, in singable meters, using an archaic diction that suggests the popular verse of the late Middle Ages and early modern period: carols, ballads, folk songs, and hymns.The typefaces, ornament, and illustrations are designed by the author.

This début collection of poems from Timothy P. McLaughlin chronicles an inspired intimacy with the still wild places and presences of Earth. The musical, iridescent language delights the senses and draws the reader/listener back into an essential creatureliness and basic loving kinship with the natural world.

In Poetic Images: Martha's Vineyard, the debut anthology of poet and photographer Bob DiCarlo, the beauty and activity of Martha's Vineyard is vividly rendered in emotional, poignant verse and haunting images. a collection captures the timelessness of seasons and life's natural cycles, exploring his intimate connection with sea and shore and township, and those who feel closest to their serene beauty. DiCarlo's ode to the most beloved of New England landscapes is a sensory journey that captures the island's mystique.

Your early twenties Are for knitting a sweaterOccasionally you'll unravelTrying to start againYou might break a needleOr damage the spoolChange your mind on colorsOr patterns, fabric or stitchYou'll get excited and try it onBefore it's fully doneMaybe seeing the potentialOr focusing on the incompleteness-Then live in those emotions for a bit One day you'll finish itExpecting it to last wellInto your thirtiesThen you'll realize You can make a better oneSo you start from scratch, But you don't start with nothingYou'll use all the lessonsFrom the sweater beforeSitting cross-legged on the floorIn the fabric ofYour early twenties

Poet and artist Sheryl Massaro's a generation―30 years of poetry is a book-length, partiallyillustrated gathering of poems from 30 years during Massaro's mid-life. 2023

Poet and artist Sheryl Massaro's afloat―a raft of water poems is a book-length, partiallyillustrated collection of her poems on our and the world's kinship with water. Though some mayallude to ecology, most of these works are musings, wondering, or acts of paying attention.2023

Poet and artist Sheryl Massaro's duino elegies―an interpretive translation, published 100years after the original publication in German, brings Rainer Maria Rilke's work into clearerunderstanding for 21 st century readers. Included are illustrations for each elegy. 2023

Still is a collection of poems that focuses on the immigrant experience: a family's journey from Lima, Peru to Miami, Florida as political refugees and asylum seekers and the impact that had on the life of a boy as he grew into a man. Renzo Del Castillo's poems often reveal larger moral concerns, touching in their language the world of politics and betrayal that cannot help but impose upon the world of private language. That heritage of terror and exile that sometimes underlies these poems gives them a sense of history within the lyric confusions of a single life, capturing the idiosyncrasies of the Miami landscape as a destination for Latin American and Caribbean migrations that intersect with an evolving definition of American identity. These poems include reflections of memory and transition, as well as adaptation to new cultures and geographies, through an ethnographic lens. There is a lovely and intimate tone, used to remind the reader that imagination triumphs over, or sometimes through, adversity.

Teddy Orloff is a baker, whose home and community have been rocked by scarlet fever. His children are stricken and the home under quarantine. As a baker he cannot stay with his family yet he finds a way to slip in at night. Teddy's wife sends him on a mission to find a perfect onion to make latkes-a certain cure for the fever. Forging into an ice storm, Teddy's quest grows weird. It is the perfect onion, though, he must acquire, whether it exists or not.

Thumbsucker, the third poetry collection by Kat Giordano, is a celebration of the juvenile, attention-seeking, and emotionally-intense. These poems are funny, sentimental, and so sharp they might make you cringe, at the speaker or at yourself, but won't flinch if you do. "A eulogy, minus death, plus balloons.""Kat Giordano's Thumbsucker is one of those bruised, bloody-knuckled, cut-lipped books that has flung itself into life and all its suffering and is here to tell you, dripping in manna and umbra, how it survived. But behind this, cast like a shadow at dusk, is an argument that says despite its pain, its ugliness, life is beauty, is splendor, laughter and love. Read these poems for the iron in them, for Giordano's ability to rock you with a line like a surprise left hook. Return for the way these poems part the dark to show you something bright. "it felt wrong of me / to eulogize something I killed, / to miss it, even, / and still not be sorry." -Todd Dillard, author of Ways We Vanish.

These representations of Kentucky life in the 20th and 21st centuries will bring back memories for readers, create bonds between generations, and honor a life of simplicity, work, and family. In 2023, Kyle Alvey finished his first year of teaching high school in the same school where his grandparents ended their teaching careers. His Papaw taught Agriculture and sponsored the Future Farmers of America (FFA). His Mamaw taught home economics. Their farm was their life, which he shared in during trips from Owensboro, KY to the Greenup Co. KY area. His memories of childhood visits include exploring the trees, fields, and creeks of the farm, walking through "His garden" (Papaw's), watching TV in the living room with his grandparents in their armchairs, fishing in the pond and searching through the assorted outbuildings filled with years of his grandparents' bits and ends. It's a purposeful reimagination of Kyle's childhood with a focus on those around him. It's a vigorous and honest reflection on where and who he comes from and connects the two sides of Kentucky that split his life. The poetry explores aspects of childhood living on a tobacco farm in Eastern Kentucky. The vignettes characterize his Mamaw and Papaw in ways people of Eastern Kentucky will recognize. The author's time on Low Gap Road makes the connection between the different types of people who live in Kentucky. Their differences, when they are positive, make us stronger. We should all recognize where and who we come from and do our best to keep memories and narratives alive.

Dwelling in the Twilight Realm begins with a series of evocative "dreamscapes" as a lens through which the poet observes the blurring of the observable and the imagined in contemporary society. These poems examine the conjoining of dream and reality in what André Breton called surreality. In the remainder of this collection Don Langford further explores the twilight realm by peeling away social surface layers to reveal underlying disillusionments and revelations. The book concludes with the emergence of a waking state that confronts death, dissolution, and impermanence through appreciative strands of gratitude and wonder. This is a richly layered and poetically imaginative collection by a poet on the move.

Yuly Kim is one of the brilliant first generation of Soviet singer-songwriters, or bards. His name is rightfully listed among such greats as Vysotsky, Okudzhava, Galich, Vizbor, and Matveeva... He has won the Okudzhava Award and the 2015 Poet Award.Kim's lyrics have been set to music by many well-known composers and performed by some of the best Soviet actors in theater productions and movies, such as An Ordinary Miracle, 12 Chairs, Bumbarash, and others. These songs are widely known and very popular. Kim's portfolio also includes dozens of plays, stage adaptations, and librettos, performed on many stages.Kim always focuses on the social and political problems and issues both in his home country and around the world. Many of his songs, as well as three plays (including Moscow Kitchens) were considered seditious and banned by the authorities.In 1998, he became a citizen of Israel, which inspired a new, very important, theme in his work. Overall, his creative palette is impressively diverse, and his work is nothing if not entertaining.Many amazing portraits of Yuliy Kim by well known artist of photography, Alexander Efremov, are presented in the book, some of them published first time.

The Transition reads like a journey of a young man toward his academic and career goals. In many ways, the journey can be characterized as semiautobiographical. Several aspects of the childhood to adolescence to adulthood saga may be fictional. However, many aspects of the journey are factual and historical. Intertwined between the storylines is an evolving collage of early protest scenarios and romantic experiences framed in poetic style. In many ways, the collection represents an autobiographical sketch in romance. It begins by providing snapshots of the author's early relationships and evolves to romantic accounts experienced in adulthood.The Transition features thirteen premium royalty-free images. The Transition has a traditional table of contents, a second one, titled "Musical Inspiration" (which includes QR Codes), and a third, titled "Photographic Images." The thirteen images are presented at the beginning and end of each of the six chapters. Including the cover, thirteen images were selected from Getty Images and iStock photographic resources on the www.istockphoto.com website.In the short run, the author envisions that the collection will be made available in electronic, paperback, hardcover, and audiobook forms. In the long run, the author anticipates that it might be possible to package the saga into a Hollywood movie production.

Faith Alanna Richardson was the fourth of five children in Jacksonville, Illinois. She received a bachelor's degree in fine arts and a master's degree in public administration. She worked in public service, being a voice for other minority women in the government sector in her community. She wrote persistently throughout her life before passing away.

'Uplifting' is the term that best describes Carolyn's verse. Humor and poignant refl ection exist side by side in her world of individuals at the crossroads of change.Like her sister, novelist Sondra Luger, she believes in happy endings. As she expresses it, "All endings are really beginnings. Th e 'happy' part is ours to create."

Love can be beautiful, but at times it can be harsh and cause you some damage. Just like the sun on the breezy days is a blessing but on some other days it might burn you. Sunday Afternoon is all about love and it's beauty in every phase. A book for those who have loved and lost and survived to tell the tale.