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Maybe Colours

by Matthew Bennett Young

'Maybe Colours' is a meditation on possibilities and was the basis of a course developed in Sweden to support and specifically promote a new EQ curriculum (emotional intelligence) in schools there. It is a meditation on possibilities through the theme of having many sources of the 'same'. Essentially Maybe Colours was written with a view to encouraging tolerance and understanding – the word “maybe” is a “pivot” for perspective-taking, enabling us to consider other possibilities for meanings, con... more

Twb

by A.L. Mabe

This is a collection of poems that explores the intimate connection between us, our world, the divine/universal forces, the potential of past lives, and the cycles of life and death.

Shadowgraph

by John C. Wunsch

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Breaking Birds

by H.M.Roberts

Breaking Birds is chilling psychological thriller written entirely in poetic verse. When friendship turns into obsession you learn that having the soul of a poet doesn’t mean you can't have the heart of a killer.

A Stubborn Forest

by Lucas de Kretser

A debut collection of poems and flashes. Several pieces were previously published in Pandora's Inbox and Box, and The Drabble. Contents: 'The Gods' Greeting, She Speaks, Night Scented Stock, By the Water Gate, When the River Freezes, Fish, Banshee, Opposite of Love, Tangerines, Regina Mater, The Pretender, Bring Another, Empty Sky, Four Walls, Las Vegas Sand, Autumn & Her Golden Leaves, In from the Snow, Canada.

Whispers on the Wind

by CM Cancel

"Whispers on the Wind" is a poetry chapbook reflecting on life as a queer, Caribbean living through grief, battling mental illness, and experiencing the beauty and destruction of love.

Grace in the Dirt: Poems, Songs, and Other Reflections on Life

by Cory Kruse

From Cory Kruse, author of the critically acclaimed A Dream of Darkness, comes an incisive collection that will delight, inspire, devastate, and uplift you. Told in spare, accessible entries, Grace in the Dirt is a lyrical memoir that delves into life’s ever-changing seasons, leveraging the author’s own history to explore the complex, and often contradictory, nature of the modern human experience. Specifically, Kruse covers an expansive breadth of deeply personal topics, things such as lo... more

Bath Water

by Wendy Tabitha Wachtel

A poetry collection artistically created to be read by relaxing in calming bath waters. Imagery and ideas created through poems that the author believes are good to pair with refreshing spa day or refreshingly long night baths. Things to think about for your bath by candle light and even some relaxing music playing after a long day. Let your mind wander through the imagery and sensations that bring the bath alive in these imaginative poems.

The Poetic Vibrations of a Matured Butterfly

by Arthur Lee Conway

A poetic journey of prose poetry, thoughts, and parables about the quiddity of humankind. The cyclonic interactions and divisions that causes movement, and sometimes turbulent development on the road called Life.

The Rapids

by Yogesh Patel

Yogesh Patel raids diverse areas of experience and many literatures to make a ‘jazz of poetry’. These poems travel with a Freedom Pass and a crow-sharp eye through Greek, Indian, African and Chinese myth, via the error page and cryptocurrency, all the way to the milk round and disrupted ecologies. They play on connections and disconnections, acting as improvisations that bounce sound and light into the broken corners of the world. -Imtiaz Dharker

Second Harvest

by Don Agey

As in the first book, Eclectic Harvest, this is a stew of different styles of poetry; metric and free, and whatever other…uh style came to mind. Also, there are limericks and haiku; Japanese poetry.

Half Woman Half Grief

by Maya Kalaria

I’m not here to sugar-coat grief. I’m here to be transformed by it. This powerfully vulnerable book invites us to grieve. Having lost her mother at the age of nine, Maya has spent her life navigating her way through the myriad of emotions which surround death. In her debut collection of poetry, she maps her journey into the mysterious underworld of grief and the extraordinary lessons she learned in the darkness. Maya is a woman of colour, a poet, a writer, and has helped to support people’... more

Broken Pieces

by Shah Asad Rizvi

Broken Pieces – Tales of Heartbreak takes the reader on a deep, beautiful, and reflective journey to love’s other side. With his collection of one hundred sublimely written poems, Shah Asad Rizvi captures the full spectrum of love lost with words that will both resonate with and haunt the reader’s soul. A truthful and poignant telling, Shah does not shy away from the pain nor causes of broken hardnesses. Broken Pieces is akin to a master’s thesis on all the ways that a heart can hurt after lo... more

You Deserve The Stars

by Aaliyah Vines

A poetry collection divided into two sections- the dark and the stars- Aaliyah Vines's debut poetry collection explores some of the darkest parts of her life. With themes of loss and love, breaking and healing, mental illness and self love, You Deserve The Stars is a love letter to her past self, and to the reader, reminding them that they deserve the stars... and that they just have to get through the dark to see them.

My Story With Blue

by Mayada Himani

Full of all kinds of beautiful romantic blues, yet it’s the unseen red passion that screams out of this sensational and sensual book! Full of love, seduction and desire. Captured and framed from our day-to-day life, making the ordinary look surreal with so much depth in it. Transforming stillness into an everlasting moving emotion, triggering every drop of living blood inside of you. Rebirth! If you are looking to rejuvenate your life, then this book will bring the youth out of you. It displays ... more

Heartscapes

by Raymond Pelly

Heartscapes explores ‘the greater love’ we see in people and the world around us. The ‘heart’ poems are the prayers of a contemplative set in the context of a long life that has known tragedy and suffering as well as love and many friendships. Heartscapes also includes salty wisdom about real life, love poems, stories, eco-poems, poems inspired by animals, translations, poems in memory of loved ones – and much more. It thus resonates with all the living, human and animate that I encounter, as ... more

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