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A homage collection of poems about Muhammad Ali, Bob Barker, John Belushi, Peter Boyle. Brandon Lee, Bruce Lee, Christopher Lee, Rodney Dangerfield, Phil Hartman, Sam Kinison, Richard Lewis, Walter Matthau, Matthew Perry, Leslie Nielsen, Vincent Price, Harold Ramis, Ivan Reitman, John Ritter, Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid), Rowdy Roddy Piper, Paul Ruebens (Pee-Wee Herman), George Segal, Sid Haig, Ray Stevenson, Jim Varney, Carl Weathers, David Bowie, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Cobain, Coolio, Terry Goodkind, Steve Harwell, Jason Matthew Thirsk, Johnny Ramone, Lemmy Kilmister, and more.

Rediscovering lost words and memories, a collection of heartfelt poems and reflections emerges from the past. Each piece captures unique life experiences, offering insights and emotions that resonate with listeners of all ages, inviting them to reflect on their own journeys. In A Dusty Cardboard Box, the author shares a personal narrative of rediscovery, revealing how a seemingly mundane cardboard box became a vessel of lost creativity.

The Anatomy of a Falling Star is a journey through the fragile, aching spaces of the human heart and spirit. In this book, desire and doubt intertwine, faith trembles under the weight of longing, and the body remembers what the soul sometimes forgets. Each poem is a quiet reckoning, a dissection of life’s light and shadow, of temptation and devotion, of identity and the relentless ache of existence. Here, stars fall slowly, carrying stories of loss, spiritual questioning, and the seductive pull of what we cannot resist. Some sparks fade, others linger, stubbornly refusing to die.

Grief: Poetry of Loss & the Love Left Behind is a raw and intimate collection of poems and illustrations that explores the many shapes grief takes when love has nowhere else to go. Written in spare, aching language, Kaylin Wingfield traces loss through moments both quiet and unbearable: the weight of memory, the absence of touch, the future that never arrived, and the love that refuses to disappear. These poems speak to the grief of losing a sibling, husband, child, a parent, grandparent, friend, a partner, a beloved animal, and even the living who are no longer reachable.

In this memoir told in poems, Dan Flanigan follows that gradual dimming through the last illness and death of his wife. Written in free verse and prose poems, Tenebrae moves across the full arc of a long marriage. These poems refuse the familiar consolations. There is no posturing, no preciousness, no self-pity. A dying woman is rendered as fully human—strong, flawed, dignified, unmistakably herself—and the speaker does not cast himself as hero.

The Fraud of Eternity is a poetry collection by Darryl Houston Smith that serves as a visceral return to the "architecture of the dark". Published under the Dyad House imprint, the work rejects modern "fleeting digital sentiment" and the "soft comfort" of contemporary verse, opting instead for a "rigid, suffocating beauty".

So That You Know is the quintessential Mani Rao collection. These are poems that hold the playful exuberance of youth and the dazzling insight of age; that are at times measured, at times extravagant. What unites them is their commitment to mining deep into the recesses of the heart and offering moments of ecstatic revelation. 'Every morning you would breathe me fly,' says the poet, and one can feel the words take wing.

A love letter, written in the tender words of the one you have lost, addressed directly to you, to give comfort and hope. This is a book of quiet companionship, a gentle presence to turn to, when grief feels close and words are hard to find. A calm walk with the one who has departed; who still has so much to say. Gentle words to open in moments of longing or stillness; words that do not demand anything; they only gently remind the heart and soul: “I am with you, always.

Read by the author, Raymond Antrobus. ‘I became fatherless at 26 and a father at 35 and whenever I look out the living room window I feel myself become the child left alone in the house’ Centred around two lyric poems on imminent fatherhood and the birth of a child, Signs, Music is a book...

Embark on a profound journey through the landscapes of the human heart with William Gomes's captivating anthology, "Bridges Over Shadows: Poetry of Home, Heart, and Healing." This meticulously crafted collection traverses the intricate realms of home, confronts the deep scars of racism and hate, navigates the tumultuous waters of grief, and celebrates the boundless expressions of love. Gomes's verses serve as a testament to the resilience of the human spirit, the transformative power of empathy, and the enduring connections that bind us all.

With flowing rhymes, intoxicating free verse explorations, and vivid imagery, LIFE AS IT IS & OTHER POEMS will take you on a powerful journey through life and loss, depression and self-acceptance, nature and the universe, and everything in between.

Mental health is not a disease but a disability in which its reality can become problematic for everyone without help. The mass shootings stem from individuals who have not been help or are off their medications to avert them from criminal activity. Suicides are high amongst our youth, due to depression and those that surround them fail or refuse to acknowledge their cry for help.

This poem describes the universal feelings of a soldier in contemplation of his own mortality and impending death.

indigo is the joy and lament of a father, theologian, human being, fashioning new ideas about the divine within the painful loss of his daughter, within the constraints of his own intelligence, within the constraints of what religion had been telling him his whole life—some of which was good and some of which wasn't.

This is Sean Hurley's (aka Sherwin Sleeves) first collection of stories and poems. Everything he doesn't know so far is here.

With Love, Grief and Fury contains love poems, for people and the planet; grief poems brimming with compassion, sharing tears and mourning what was and contemplating what could be; and poems of fire and fury that will kick some ass, tell the truth and inspire change and hope. Over thirty years after she first stormed the UK poetry scene, the trailblazing and award-winning writer Salena Godden has produced her most audacious and definitive collection to date. Like a big sister’s arm around your shoulder, With Love, Grief and Fury is important and nourishing for the soul.

In this volume, the lives of three sibling dreamers play out in verse, threading enchantment into the challenges of growing up. As they find humor in tiny ordeals, meaning in disappointment, and beauty even in tragedy, their poems will open your heart, offering vulnerability and transparency throughout. In Sunshine or in Shadow is a treasure of laughter and tears that will stay with you forever.

When tensions veer between hope and despair, the ensuing fracture can swing like a scythe and cut a ragged seam between past and present. In One Wild Word Away, Geffrey Davis weaves a deft set of poems about illness, family, loss, and rebirth. The luxurious sonics and crisp descriptions in each line are haunted by grief and buoyed by love as the speaker confronts generational trauma and the potential loss of a loved one while in the process of raising his own son.

This poetry collection deals with life, death, love, and the loss of a beloved, albeit complicated, parent.

In this poetry collection "Ways to Say Goodbye", Anne Kellas takes the listener through dream sequences, abstract and imagistic poems and deeply personal poems of loss. The effect is a cumulative building of a quiet world of reflective resilience as the poet tries out possible ways to do what is almost impossible – to love and to say goodbye.