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Sappho meets Springsteen in Insecurity System by Sara Wainscott, a wry exploration of memory, motherhood, interdimensional time-travel, and the precarious future. Propelled by existential longing, these poems cycle between tenderness and rage, desire and despair, tracking the intertwined anxieties of making a living and making a life.

Rein It In is a brilliant pamphlet that examines freedom of youthful self-indulgence and recklessness as well as the inevitable reckoning that can come with that. There is something thrillingly immediate about these poems that makes Héloïse de Satgé's words feel like they are written about events still happening. de Satgé deftly captures moments in time that are both personal and universal to anyone who has ever felt a sense of disorientation and uncertainty when coming of age. The writing is unapologetically political and speaks to us in a language that is both relatable and startlingly fresh. There's a sense of freedom in the way the poet's voice leaps between slang and proper language, and the effect is a poetry of vitality, of life lived and breathed. These poems demand our attention.

"Love Under Fire is dedicated to the women who have inspired me and whom I have known and loved and in a few cases loved too much. Their number is many, and I thank all in memory of their timeless appreciation and remembrance - the cornerstones of immortality for all.Their combined life stories have emboldened the world and enriched the uniqueness of all our individual lives, journeys, and endeavors."The Way of the World...What LossMy heart is strong enoughto give...But not strong enoughTo give away.

A collection of poems. A lyrical book about the love, about the conversations with the soul , and about the dance of souls separated in the dimensions... A book for love and parting, for the power of the souls to live thinking each other looking at the stars feeling ethereal closeness.

In Mustard Earring, emotions and logic intertwine as the book delves into the themes of personal values, inner struggles, anxieties, and unfortunate circumstances. While the narrative primarily takes place in the past, it also sheds light on hidden truths and realities, making for a sensitive and thought-provoking read. The book explores the search for happiness and comfort in a world filled with injustice and unaccountable actions. Through the author’s perspective, readers will gain insight into the objects of desire that shape our lives and the way we perceive the world around us.

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Whilst Walking Away is a beautifully simple collection of prose and poems written during a time of change and introspection. The author, Rowan J. Paige, brings a sense of peace, inspiration, and self-love with poems such as "Toasted Glaze," "Slugs," and "King Tide." She delicately weaves coziness, heartache, romance, and endurance together to create a unique story of renewal and strength.As a queer woman, she reflects openly about healing in nature, her relationship with mental health, and her love of being lost.Much like her poetic debut (Whilst Gazing Through a Window), Whilst Walking Away is stunningly illustrated by Berlin artist Mira Lou, making it a lovely coffee table book to be shared and cherished.

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This book consists of poems of pure feelings. Some of them talk about the mindset we live in, and some of them talk about the struggles young adults face in our modernized world, whether it's friendships, love, or even societal issues (fitting in). I question a variety of things including our surroundings, some certain views of other people, and some social norms in this book. Nothing personal here, it’s just how I view life. I hope it touches your heart!

Blending poetry and nonfiction prose into a hybrid memoir brimming with humanity, Takwa Gordon's Body Talk explores being bipolar, Black, a refugee, a woman, a Muslim, a child sexual abuse survivor, and a first-generation college student in America. At once a narrative of trauma and disruption, Gordon also investigates the power of love and community, and ultimately what healing looks like for a Black-American trying to carve out a story, and a future, of her own.

Volcano Girl is the debut poetry collection by Sarah Blakely.This collection is an explosive journey through a series of traumatic experiences and the lasting effects of these experiences. The book deals with topics of sexual assault, abuse, recovering from trauma, and learning how to love freely once again. The poetry in this collection is raw and unfiltered and was written throughout the many stages of grief and healing.If you've dealt with abuse in relationships or sexual trauma in any shape or form, this book is for you. This collection of poetry is for all of the volcano girls out there waiting for the moment they finally boil over and erupt.Warning: This book contains graphic material that may be triggering or upsetting to some readers.

**NEW EDITION OF LOSS, FEATURING NEW POEMS AND MUCH-LOVED FAVOURITES, WILL PUBLISH ON 19th MARCH 2026**<BR><BR>OFFERING WORDS OF COMFORT TO BRING SOLACE TO THE DARKEST DAYS OF GRIEF, FROM THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER OF TO THE WOMEN and WILD HOPE.<BR><BR>'Donna's words speak to my heart' Davina McCall<BR><BR>'We all need more Donna Ashworth - her words change your perspective on life and offer hope in this crazy world' Chris Evans<BR><BR>'Powerful and comforting' Dawn French<BR><BR>Losing someone casts us adrift in a lonely sea of grief, one that can be hard to navigate and is frequently overwhelming. Donna's wise words help us feel less alone on even the hardest of days, and bring comfort and understanding. She also gently reminds us that love and grief are two sides of the same coin, and that great grief is born only of great love.<BR><BR>'Absolutely beautiful ... whenever I'm feeling lost, I reach for Donna Ashworth's words and feel found.' BRYONY GORDON<BR><BR>'Some people have the Bible by their bed. Others a self-help manual. I have Donna Ashworth.' SUSANNAH CONSTANTINE<BR><BR>'Donna's writing calms me down, lifts me up, inspires and enlightens. She makes women feel good about themselves and that's my type of girl!' DENISE WELCH

Cynthia Pelayo sings a song for the least of us, the victim we want to forget as soon as possible, the one who disappeared before ever really appearing. With a fairy tale gaze and a heart bigger than the world, her siren song insinuates itself past our defenses, past the hardened calluses and apathy we've erected to protect ourselves from the everyday horror of another missing girl. <BR>Pelayo relates the familiar story, poem by poem; a body is found, a brutal crime investigated, clues take us in circles, and lead us nowhere. We are on an epic journey, the hero's journey, and it must play out to the end in all its painful, ticking moments. Pelayo imbues her hero, Agent K, with the entirety of our dedication and that crumb of hope we've been hiding, saving for later. We will need to save for years, for decades, if we want to come out the other side. The job takes its toll, the answers are never complete and whys fracture, crack and spread. Still there is no turning away. We must bear witness, though it changes and contorts us.<BR>"In Crime Scene, Cynthia Pelayo dips her quill in a secret wound of pain that not all writers are brave enough to explore. Unflinching and raw, Crime Scene is a harrowing exploration of human suffering and firmly establishes Pelayo as one of the most exciting and original poets working today." -Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes<BR>"Crime Scene is a held breath without release or escape. Pelayo dissects our grimmest cultural obsessions and aims an unrelenting microscope at our tragedies and sins. There is lightning beneath this book's skin. Harrowing to the last." -Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth<BR>"Just read Cynthia Pelayo's Crime Scene in one sitting. This book rips true crime away from the fabulists and, with all the shock of a blood spatter, brings it back to the stark, lonely dead end it has always been."-Daniel Kraus, The Ghost That Ate Us<BR>"Few poets dig so deep into the dark heart of human suffering as Cynthia Pelayo, and I can think of no better example of her lyrical fearlessness than the epic narrative poem that is Crime Scene. Raw and uncompromising, Pelayo is, quite simply, one of the best and most important writers in the business." -Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Sour Candy.<BR>"Pelayo's Crime Scene is undoubtedly the Odyssey of crime literature. Each poem unveils the darkest parts of human existence while seeking to understand the reasons behind those most evil impulses. The result is a beautiful, heartbreaking reckoning that lingers long after reading the final passage." -Heather Levy, author of the Anthony nominated Walking Through Needles.

Long ago, in the folds and crevices of time, when an Indian-Bengali girl in West Bengal, India and a Mexican-multi-ethnic Latina girl in Texas, USA were germinating as poets, storytellers during the incubation period that generally characterizes girlhood, the essence of their words and their beings were accumulating in their consciousness, silently, yet surely. Those words, poems, monologues were in their gestation period, only to be born years later as precious pearls of their distinct identities in relation to their ethnicity, their gender roles et al. Decades later, both women as poets, artists, storytellers developed their voices in the universe as unique outbursts of culture, gender and thus, 'WE ARE WHAT WE ARE' was born, a manifesto of their unapologetic primal songs, a manifesto of their cumulative consciousness as women of letters.

Unfuckable Lardass reverts the patriarchy's gaze. It began as an attempt to refract and undercut an outrageous insult allegedly lobbed at German Chancellor Angela Merkel - an egregious demonstration of the framing of women in reductive and sexualized terms ignoring their existence as subjects of their own complex histories. As such, Unfuckable Lardass is fuelled by the energy of grief and rage, counterpoised by moments of love and hope. Drawing on language from a wide range of sources - including European witch trials, Marx, Darwin, Renaissance and popular music, and common profanity, as well as from the author's experience of post-reproductivity and of carrying out caring labour during declines, deaths, and the COVID-19 lockdown - Strang's sixth book of poetry not only refuses the objectifying gaze but, more importantly, turns towards the great and expanding richness of alternate possibilities.

P.M. Draper's poems in After Pyre explore change, loss, and unfathomable heartache, while offering the reader respite with her skillful verse that is not only refreshing, but achingly funny when you least expect it. From the tragic tale of suicide by fire to poems about squirrel sex and the Kung Fu Nuns of Kathmandu, After Pyre will take the reader on quite a ride.¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ "...a stunning testament that, out of chaos and ruin, we humans are endlessly capable of discovering the power to live fully to touch the bones of every dream." -Skipwith Coale "...slant, whimsical and deeply satisfying."-Sally Naylor, author of Synapse Flies into Startle

These fierce poems bleed love and loss, knotted with a personal reckoning of a "Vietnam of the soul" shared with a vanished husband whom neither divorce nor death can finally erase. Pris Campbell cuts herself to the quick and keeps going. Her wounds become a blessing in art, a gift to us all.- Jeff Weddle, winner of the Eudora Welty Prize<BR>In this poignant collection, Pris Campbell tells us the story of how she fell in love, waited for him while he trained as a naval officer at OCS, got married in the romantically magical land of Hawaii, and then divorced all the while the Vietnam War was ripping the soul of America in two. Campbell masterfully casts a spell over us as she relives their past and how the present is haunted by the hopes and dreams of her first marriage. History, particularly the events on the fringes and margins of a horrific war, walks side by side with their fated romance, told by an exemplary humane narrator."- Michael Parker, author of Divining the Spirits in the House of the Hush and Hush.<BR>Grief takes on many faces, shifts hot and cold, changes through the omnivorous jaws of time. In Pris Campbell's most recent book, Truth and Other Lies, we learn how a war can consume not only its soldiers, but also those who loved them. Her vivid and honest poems put architecture to the thinning walls of angst and PTSD. In full color, set in the trauma of the 1960's anti-war movement, we find a collection of poems that draws us toward empathy and compassion, finding in "Fourteen Months," an uncommon truth: "He's dead two years and a half now... poems spill out like the turning tide he rode on then and ride again now, touching me occasionally within our shared Vietnam of the soul." This is narrative poetry at a visceral level, provocative, naked, and essential.- Edward Nudelman, author of Thin Places.

Because I worked years as a correctional officer, I got a unique opportunity to see into the lives of those behind bars, and to look thru the window of some heartaches that brought them there. 'Pick Me Up' was designed with inmates in mind. Nine poems that touch the heart, encourage the soul and uplift your spirit. Not just for inmates, as we can all be enslaved by one vice or another. Prisoners of our own hearts and minds and bodies. A real booklet, touching real lives. I'm a believer in Jesus Christ. I have attended Dean Junior College, CVCC, Shaw University, University of Maryland, University SC, and others. I hold no degree. My life's experiences include nurse's aide, a draftsman, served seven years in the military. Worked as a correction's officer, and recently retired with over thirty years with the Postal Service. I am currently enrolled in the schooling of The Holy Ghost. My job is to spread light, encouragement, and love, and remind others that Jesus still cares...Stay tuned...

Looking For Alligators; A Collection of Poems is a compilation of poetry written over the years, telling the stories Anne-Marie heard from her parents who lived in pre-WWII Philippines. Her poetry has roots in her growing up life in Manila, and it follows her journey to the United States, to marriage and children and everything along the way.Anne-Marie was born in the Philippines, and grew up in Manila. She attended the University of Oregon and the University of Southern California, majoring in Creative Writing. After living in the North Texas area, Anne-Marie and her husband recently moved to sunny Southwest Florida, where they share loveand home with an extended family of six grown children, one cat, two dogs, and assorted grandpets. Anne-Marie's work has appeared in Numinous, The Alembic, Foliate Oak, Amarillo Bay, and Soundings East literary magazines. Anne-Marie has also won the 2011 Margaret Reid Prize for Traditional Verse - Most Highly Recommended, for the poem "Brother and I".Anne-Marie has recently published three children's books: Lovemee, Benzie the Balloon Dog, Anthony and Arabella. Anne-Marie has also written and published Dog Stories; Finding Home - which tells the stories of three of her dogs, two rescued and one who became forever a part of her heart.

Somewhere, a Woman Lowers the Hem of Her Skirt is a collection of poems that takes the reader on a journey through life as a woman breaking free from the constraints of a quiet, midwestern life, to fighting battles for equality, to raising boys in a harsh society, to teaching students and making connections in a unjust world. These poems are about hope and happiness and heartache and finding your way home.<BR>Every single poem in this gorgeous collection seems to spring whole from a moment of achingly sharp perception. Uttich writes directly into Adrienne Rich's "dream of a common language" - that place where the impossibility of connection is breached by love, and care, and justice. "I want to write a happy poem..." she says... "something that would never/use the words silver-lining" and indeed no easy hope is offered. Something far greater is kindled in her words, though - the precious shimmer of the world as it is in all its violence and unbidden joy. Few poets are natural makers of stunning endings; Uttich is one of them. Her poems never speechify or slip delicately away; rather they offer a vision of the depths possible if one is brave enough to stay close to hard truths, ask - and wait for - wisdom, and witness with awe and tenderness. Lia Purpura, author of four poetry and four essay collections, including It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful (2015) and All The Fierce Tethers: Essays (2019) These poems will take you out, spin you around, and teach you just how important a woman's life is. They'll remind you of the distance between where you grew up and where you live now, and then they'll collapse that distance so you see who you are is everyone you've ever been. And they'll do all that with breathless grace, humor, and compassion. Katherine Riegel, author of two poetry collections: What the Mouth Was Made For (2013) and Castaway (2010) Laurie Rachkus Uttich's collection feels like the best kind of church. I want to shout, "Hallelujah! Amen!" at the end of each poem. Her words rock with hymns of struggle, love, family, community, and "girl power." And while they build us up, they also remind us of our responsibility to call out unjust systems and to walk alongside everyone who crosses our paths. It's an invitation to embrace the authentic in ourselves and others, to love instead of judge. In all of these poems, Uttich's dazzling language avoids sentimentality and captures the raw details of life. These poems are honest, tender, rugged, and unflinching. Terry Ann Thaxton, author of three poetry collections: Mud Song (2017), The Terrible Wife (2014), and Getaway Girl (2011)

Hear My Heart is a compilation of poems that were written by Donna Amelia Howell Richardson over the course of her life. They are mostly spiritual in nature because Donna found Jesus as a child and He inspired her all her life. The book contains special events and special people who entered her life and moved her to writing. The poems deal with life and death, and include highlights from Donna's career as a high school principal. Her roles as wife, mother, friend, and grandmother are also front and center in many of her works. The words within this volume will speak to anyone journeying through this life and searching for a companion. They are written from Donna's heart to an audience of whoever wishes to share her story. God Bless. My name is Donna Amelia Howell Richardson and I was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida. My father worked for Southern Bell and my mother was a stay-at-home mom. I attended East 44th Street Baptist Church, which was just two blocks from my home from birth until I was around 26 and we moved our family to San Mateo. My husband and I both were baptized at that little church, and I sang in the choir there for many years alongside a very influential Christian role model named Yvonne White. I never forgot her influence in my life and can still hear her singing "His Eye is on the Sparrow" in my dreams. She had a beautiful soprano voice. I always enjoyed writing, even in my little diary as a small child. I had an English teacher at Andrew Jackson High School, Mrs. Harvey, who told me I should be a writer. I was very encouraged by her words and continued jotting down verses and poems for the rest of my life. I married my high school sweetheart, Steven Richardson, at the age of 19, and together we began the journey of building a family and continuing our educations. We both received a Bachelors and Masters Degree from the University of North Florida, and I went back for my Doctorate's Degree at UNF. My education enabled me to become an English teacher at N.B. Forrest High School in 1985, twelve years after I had had my first child. I stayed at home during my two children's formative years, and enjoyed being PTA president at San Mateo Elementary School, and just pleasured in being a mother to my offspring prior to jumping into a very busy career for the next 33 years. Throughout my busy career and letting life just roll over me, I took moments to compose some of my deepest thoughts. I wrote all of these on pieces of paper and just tucked them away until I decided to share them with the world. I am up in years now, and hope to keep writing the next thirty years so I can produce a second volume to my heart-felt feelings.