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War and Other Inconveniences
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This collection combines several poems written since 2020 with five poems of older origin. An earlier version of “A Pretty Good Planet” appeared in Alberta Views in March 2022. An earlier version of “Guernica, Then and Now,” appeared in Canadian...
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the bee and the fleur de lis
love poems for the broken hearted and unrequited
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Love is primal…and heartbreak? Inevitable. the bee and the fleur de lis is a collection of deeply personal poetry born of hopeless romanticism and truly heartbreaking experiences. Through both free verse and rhyming poetry, D R Kendel plays with...
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Poetry Without Borders
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Best known as a political sociologist and public intellectual, Trevor W. Harrison in this collection of poems explores questions of remembrance, regret, nature, and loss. These previously unpublished poems were written over several decades....
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Thought Bytes From The Carpenter
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They greet the rising sun with hammer, saw, and square. Where nothing stood for years on end there is now an edifice there. Thought Bytes From The Carpenter is a collection of poems designed to make us pause, reflect, and consider our lives. With...
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Ashes of Innocence
A Poetic Journey Through Shadow & Light
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All our perspectives come from light and shadows. What lies in the darkness, hidden from our understanding? What might a sudden light reveal? The answers to such questions are as changeable as the seasons, but giving them voice has always been...
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Song of the Brown Man
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In my early years, I read and wrote to learn English as well as I could. There were moments when I had no courage to use words that were new to me. But believing no one will ever see those words I wrote, I went ahead, discovering after a while my...
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Winter Wonderland?
Poetic Form in Service of the Modern Experience
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A fairy tale that does unfold a red carpet, on which we are actors trying to live other people’s lives. It is meaning that we are losing as we try to just survive. Madness of the medicated, it’s all a violation of the question, “What is it to be...
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A Plea to Our Mother
A Poetic Journey of Childhood Incest to Resilience
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A Plea to Our Mother is a beautiful, complex, difficult collection of autobiographical poems that chronicles one woman’s experience of childhood sexual abuse, and how the abuse suffered by other members of her family led to and complicated her...
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Are You In There?
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Life is full of excitement. Life is choosing to overcome any obstacle that may arise. Life is having an imaginary mind. Life is putting yourself to a challenge. ARE YOU IN THERE?
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This may sound strange
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“This may sound strange” is Christopher Taylor’s second collection of poetry. It brings together a wide range of poems that are always in motion - in sound and subject, in image and tone. Simple in syntax, these poems remain in the reader’s mind...
