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Femi Ojo-Ade’s new poetry collection, Gorée’s Unwavering Songs comes a few years after his first, the honourably mentioned Exile at Home. The wait, one daresay, is worth it. This collection is poignant and thought-provoking. The poems delve into the innermost confines of Africa’s soul to...

Yes, There Will Be Singing brings together Marilyn Krysl’s essays on the origins of language and poetry, poetic form, the poetry of witness, and poetry’s collaboration with the healing arts. Beginning with pieces on her own origins as a poet, she branches into poetry’s profound spiritual and...

Raining Upwards is Henry Normal’s first all new poetry collection in over twenty years. These poems explore relationships with science, nature, humanity and other vital matters we are usually too busy to think about. Henry Normal was born in St Annes, Nottingham, in 1956. He now lives in...

From the authors and poets H.B. Barstrum and Roman O’Rhory, comes book two of their collaborative haiku poem series Haiku Poetry Collection, aptly titled Simple Truths About Love. This second poetry book offers light-hearted, yet relevant commentary and advice about the weird and wonderful...

Poetry of Mine presents a collection of verses by poet Robert Baker. With them he seeks to grip the heart and stir deep-seated emotions with force enough to create an emotional whirlwind. Each poem shares a story that takes us on an adventure of the mind; some are mellow, while others are full...

A groundbreaking anthology containing the work of poets who have witnessed war, imprisonment, torture, and slavery. A companion volume to Against Forgetting, Poetry of Witness is the first anthology to reveal a tradition that runs through English-language poetry. The 300 poems collected here...

'The Fringe, Poetry on the Move One' is a pamphlet of poetry from poets based in the North West of England. It is distributed in pubs, cafes, libraries, shops, buses and trains. In fact, anywhere the public may have time to read some interesting pieces of writing. The pamphlets and ebooks...

Robert Bridges was born in Walmer, Kent on the 23rd of October 1844. He went to study medicine intending to practise until the age of forty and then retire to write poetry. Lung disease forced him to retire in 1882, and from that point on he devoted himself to writing and literary research. However,...

Seasons of Poetry from the Tree of Life is the last book in the Tree of Life trilogy by author Paula Jean Hight-Sullins and quite possibly the best. The poetry is divided into seasonal sections. Each season refers to a stage of life. There are poignant, funny, and thought provoking poetry in each section.

Latonya writes her poetry with more than just a need to sell copies of her work. She writes with a passion that cannot be matched. She writes with a passion that leaves the readers wanting more and this latest installment will do just that. It's gritty, honest and in your face. It isn't the poetry...

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Roberta Gould is the author of 11 books of poetry, including: Louder Than Seeds, Pacing the Wind and What History Trammels. Gould's poems have appeared in many poetry journals such as Green Mountain Review, Confrontation, and The Manhattan Poetry Review, in many Poetry...

With equal parts optimism and uncertainty, the Chesterville Center Union Meeting House hosted the first Chesterville Poetry Night in October of 2015. The joy and beauty of that evening were commemorated with a volume of poetry and artwork that quickly became a Chesterville best-seller. The second...

Making Contact is an exciting collaboration between 25 international poets. The common ground between these poets is that all of them are members of the Poets' Graves poetry forum. Individually many of them have achieved a noteworthy level of publication in poetry journals such as Magma, Poetry...

Jim Clarkson is a lucky git. He has written poetry since he was 17 and mostly he has done this in pockets of time in-between doing other stuff. His is a poetry which has sprouted like a weed growing between cracks in the pavement; a poetry which has spread like mushrooms in a cellar. Often he has...