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  • Poems From the Heart

    A Book of Life, Love, Loss & Laughter
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    This book of poetry started with no thought process at all. A few poems written over many years. Mostly with very personal messages to family and friends. Poems to my husband, my grandchildren, my friends. Then, for unknown reasons I started...


  • Moccasins on concrete and other poems

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    A collection of concise and mostly short poems with recurring themes of our relationship with nature, the complexities of love and social justice. These poems are unpretentious in their direct and often unexpected imagery, with occasional threads...


  • Reflections

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    That broken old buggy down by the well If it could talk it would have a story to tell Of horses and sleighs and bygone days Pull up a stump and hear what it says. Reflections is a collection of rhyming poetry that shares a snapshot of a life that...


  • The Tears of Pan

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    There is no way to escape this fate This maze of languished torment Every turn compounds confusion The son of Pasiphae waits in twisting labyrinthian tunnels Ready to cut the string of order by which one strides Like the son of Pasiphae, poet...


  • Raw Eggs

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    “It’s hard to mosh when your hips hurt,” Patrick Julian Hunter tells us in his wry and unflinching debut collection. These are the confessions, resolutions, exultations, and objections of an aging Gen-Xer. The poems in Raw Eggs vacillate between...


  • A Garden in the Rain

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    In this début collection, Dell Catherall shapes language the way a gardener prunes an aspen tree. Paying tribute to a garden, a husband, a son lost to childhood demons, the poems in this collection connect the humble to the luminous. A draft...


  • Second Chances

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    Spanning a lifetime’s worth of both blessings and hardship, Second Chances is an introspective poetry collection that delves deep into life’s ups and downs with moving insight. Author Kathleen Coughlin Dunn’s maturity of prose speaks of a life...


  • She's Calling You

    Poems
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    Whether a simple coffee break or the turning of seasons, everything is more beautiful if we take the time for reflection. In this collection of captivating, free-verse poems, author Nicole DeLuca uncovers the magic of life. From odes to autumn to...


  • Joy & Sorrow

    Sorrow & Joy-Musings on Mining, Family, Latin America and Society
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    Most of these poems are from the direct experience of the author, be it working at a mine or in mineral exploration, mostly in Canada but also in Latin America, or with my family and including both sorrow and joy with the short life of my son, or...


  • House of Matches

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    In House of Matches (2024) the poet fashions and gives life to diverse voices of refugees, immigrants, exiles, as well as victims of war, human trafficking, and pandemic. Collectively, in their stories of struggles, losses, and triumphs, the...