Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss
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Everything Is Waiting for You
$18.00 Add to cartThe title of David Whyte’s fifth volume of poetry is an apt description of its contents. Everything, he points out, is indeed waiting for us, including our own demise and the demise of those we love. … [more below]
- Author: Whyte, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: January 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0962152463
- Language: English
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From Grief to Glory: A JOURNEY OF HEALING Memoirs of Poetry
$18.95 Add to cartGrief will kill you if you let it.
Grief is a universal experience that touches us all at some point in life.
In this powerful collection of poetry, Charmaine takes you through the many phases of grief,
- Author: Charmaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: January 21 2026
- ISBN10: 9798896378587
- Language: English
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Serafina
$13.95 Add to cartSo, you have all these thoughts in your head, and all these experiences daily, and need a way to get them out. It becomes a journal. Then that journal becomes a way to write out stories. But writing s
- Author: Collins, Waldron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: November 13 2025
- ISBN10: 9798896177517
- Language: English
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Learning to Bend
$14.95 Add to cartIn Marie Eaton’s latest book of poetry, she writes tender and lyrical poems contemplating the challenges and joys of aging, the inevitability of death, and the persistence of love.
- Author: Eaton, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1958808466
- Language: English
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Atria: Poems
$27.99 Add to cart“Refusing parallel movement, the hands/ Those empty frames. Imagine holding/ a Memory–or was it a photograph”
In this rich, prismatic collection, D.S. Waldman guides readers through the halls of th… [more below]
- Author: Waldman, D. S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1324097264
- Language: English
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What’s After Making Love: Poems
$19.00 Add to cartWhat’s After Making Love traverses a woman’s life from childhood to maturity with stops along the way for grief over a son’s death, conflicted emotions over a mother’s death, long love for a husband,
- Author: Charde, Sharon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: December 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1594981833
- Language: English
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Loves of My Life
$14.99 Add to cartReflections of our times in poetry, both personal and universal. As Julie Gilbert has described it: “Holly’s poems are learning tools for all ages of how to see it, say it and get on with it. A deeply
- Author: Schwartztol, Holly W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1665311460
- Language: English
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The Distance of a Shout: Selected Poems
$35.00 Add to cartIn The Distance of a Shout, Michael Ondaatje has assembled some of his finest poems into a singular poetic memoir that invokes the arc of his own journey over fifty years.
Through poems that grow out- Author: Ondaatje, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0593805011
- Language: English
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The Stars We Find in Dust
$18.49 Add to cartIn The Stars We Find in Dust, sixteen-year-old Emma-Rose Wallner offers an intimate, unflinching glimpse into the heart and mind of a young soul navigating the complexities of growing up. Across three… [more below]
- Author: Wallner, Emma-Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1038342538
- Language: English
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How My Father Became a Boat
$19.00 Add to cartA river swollen and drained by tides, a dauntless heart pumping time, forms the center of How My Father Became a Boat. The collection begins in the last days of the speaker’s father before fanning out
- Author: Miller, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1594981698
- Language: English
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Invited to the Feast
$19.00 Add to cart“Do not hurry your journey,” the poet says midway through this stunning collection. “Better if it lasts for years, so you arrive / laden with all you’ve lost along the way.” Bonnie Naradzay’s journey-
- Author: Naradzay, Bonnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1639822054
- Language: English
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Until the Cardinals Carry Me Home
$14.99 Add to cartUntil the Cardinals Carry Me Home details the grief of a young woman who lost her grandmother to suicide. In this debut poetry collection, M. P. Slaughter lays bare the grief she suffered the first ye
- Author: Slaughter, M. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1960430181
- Language: English
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The Venus of Odesa: New and Selected Poems: Selected Poems
$21.95 Add to cartCompassion and irony define the human predicaments and historical conditions in Askold Melnyczuk’s extraordinary new collection of poems that spans nearly fifty years. His cosmopolitan perspective-one
- Author: Melnyczuk, Askold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1952335973
- Language: English
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A Midnight Treasury of Macabre and Weird Poems
$29.95 Add to cartA handsome tome of dark poetry to feed the fans of all things macabre, gothic, and weird.
The perfect book for fans of Edgar Allan Poe and, more widely, for those who love their dark side with a touch- Author: Sampson, Ana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0789344300
- Language: English
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The Sorrow Festival
$15.95 Add to cartThis collection of poetry interrogates the impact of grief and partner violence on a family lineage, as well as the connections between sorrow and joy as they relate to poetry, women’s writing, and th… [more below]
- Author: Slaughter, Erin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1955904049
- Language: English
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The Deep Blue of Neptune
$18.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2024 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
The Deep Blue of Neptune is a striking, meditative collection of poems by Terry Belew, which reminds readers of the necessity of empathy in the midst
- Series: Wick First Book
- Author: Belew, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1606354981
- Language: English
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Radicle, or When the World Lived Inside Us: Poems
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author Everything All at Once comes a beautiful poetry collection exploring motherhood, grief, the unending road to healing, and the redeeming power of love.
The wor
- Author: Catudal, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0063414554
- Language: English
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Terminal Surreal: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartThis unflinching poetry collection follows the author’s diagnosis with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
In her masterful poetry collection Terminal Surreal, Martha Silano confronts the reality of- Author: Silano, Martha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1946724947
- Language: English
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Stay Dead
$17.00 Add to cartIn Stay Dead, Shapero examines performance, power, comedy, and despair through the lenses of method acting and abstract expressionism.
The politics of labor and performance collide with comedy and trag… [more below]
- Author: Shapero, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1556597126
- Language: English
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Incidental Pollen: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartRUNNER-UP FOR THE 2023 ARTHUR SMITH POETRY PRIZE
Incidental pollen refers to pollen that collects on bees as they forage for nectar-like the cumulative life experiences we cannot help but carry. The hi… [more below]
- Author: Austin-Li, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1963695259
- Language: English
