Poetry, Subjects & Themes, Family
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For Those Who Mourn
by Trudy Kleckner
Death, grief, and loss are as much a part of life as birth, love, and celebration. Yet when we lose someone we love dearly—a parent, a sibling, a partner—we are stunned, bewildered. In some deep pocket of our hearts or minds, we thought they...
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Up at Gabby's House
by Kimberly Friesen
For Up at Gabby’s House, we’re making brand new memories Please know my door is open, visit any time you please There are few things more special than spending time with those you love the most—or looking back fondly at the many wonderful...
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Relatable
by Candice Spilchuk
Relatable is a collection of easy-to-read rhyming poems exploring marriage, divorce, parenting, mental health, and so much more. While some poems were written when the poet was a kid, most are inspired by all of the life events Candice has...
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Little Painted Eagle and The Teaching Rocks
A Journey of Self-Discovery by Larry Busch
"Little Painted Eagle and The Teaching Rocks: A Journey of Self-Discovery" is a free-verse poem about a young mixed-blood (European and Indigenous) male who, during a solo canoe trip, discovers hundreds of petroglyphs and pictographs. By...
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In the Presence of Beauty
New and Selected Poems by Michael Dow
With remarkable attention to detail, a broad range of knowledge, and an obvious love of language, Dow moves between detailed nature poems, poems about personal grief, lyrical love poems, and narrative poems of times spent in far-off places. With...
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Collected Poems
by Raymond Fraser
Poetry is a universal language, and Raymond Fraser used it to speak to his readers about what life is—and what it can be. Over his impressive fifty-year career, Raymond wrote eight poetry collections, using deft insight and a masterful command of...
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Chemical Imbalance
by EJ Rivers
Through tales of personal experiences, Chemical Imbalance tells the story of a young adult navigating complex emotions. The roller coaster of emotions experienced in life is carried throughout this collection with poems about grief, sadness,...
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Provoked by Pain
The Poems of a Broken Woman by Marilyn Nilsson Grabinsky
What do you do when, in a moment, the future you had imagined for yourself comes crashing down? After earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts, Grabinsky was intent on beginning a new life as a professional artist when she was diagnosed with rheumatoid...
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Meanings from A to Z
An Anthology of Poetry by Shirley Kitchen
P is for poetry. Author Shirley Kitchen fashions words together, noting her existence and life around her. She writes of relationships with people and the earth. She speaks of loss, of change, of love and of striving to understand different...
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All The Small Things
by Libby McKechnie
“In this very old, magical place / I knew I was not alone.” A vibrant, moving sophomore collection, All the Small Things offers a gentle reminder to readers young and old: You are not alone. Through poetic lyricism and whimsical watercolour...
