Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss
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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
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Everything Alive: Poems
$16.95 Add to cartWith desperate longing and raw vulnerability–but also surprising humor–Molly Johnsen’s debut collection Everything Alive confronts trauma and disability like long-lost relatives. Johnsen relies on t… [more below]
- Author: Johnsen, Molly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991413466
- Language: English
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A Bright and Borrowed Light: Poems
$26.00 Add to cartA gorgeous collection of poems exploring womanhood, sisterhood, love, loss, and longing, for people who find catharsis in poems, or people who have always wanted to read poetry, but don’t know where t
- Author: Kampa, Courtney
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0063429454
- Language: English
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Preverbal
$17.95 Add to cartHow does trauma shape us? What is memory but a flawed attempt to set the record straight so we can live with it? How do we give voice to what is mostly whispered in the dark? How do we go on?
These are
- Author: Beauvais, Carroll
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798992232905
- Language: English
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In Remembrance of . . .
$15.95 Add to cartIn Times of Grief…
Spouses, families, and other
soulmates – those of you
are usually the people,
in times of loss,
who experience grief with
more intensity, more passion,
more feelings, more emotions.
Yo
- Author: Laine, Larry D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: May 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798895265161
- Language: English
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…and then she grew wings
$16.99 Add to cartJourney through Transformation: A Woman’s Guide to Overcoming Life’s Toughest Challenges. Discover Hope and Healing through Poetry, Reflections and Musings of Personal Triumph.
…and then she grew win
- Author: Abrams, Lea Carla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 9798822974609
- Language: English
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Something Close to God
$15.00 Add to cart“Something Close to God” explores the themes of redemption, identity, and overcoming adversity in the face of cisheteropatriarchal expectations. This collection of poems is unafraid to scream at God a
- Author: del Carmen Ruiz, Erika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1959118781
- Language: English
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Table with Burning Candle
$21.95 Add to cartWith a dual sense of convulsion and care, Table with Burning Candle tackles a subject that is every parent’s worst nightmare-the death of a child. Grieving the loss of her son to opioid addiction and
- Author: Paul, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: April 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1960329383
- Language: English
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Love Prodigal
$17.00 Add to cartAmidst cycles of heartbreak, trauma, and chronic pain, Love Prodigal finds strength in the natural world, motherhood, desire, and new love.
Fiercely self-aware and “utterly present tense,” Traci Brimh… [more below]
- Author: Brimhall, Traci
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1556597029
- Language: English
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Things I Think About and Other Works: A Healing Through Creative Expression
$15.99 Add to cartThe Things I Think About and Other Stories captures thoughts and stories shaped by years of challenges, failures, violence, wins and moments of clarity. Through this work, she hopes to sharpen your ir
- Author: Ramelle, Nadia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9798330459353
- Language: English
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When I Am Gone: Poems for times of loss and grief
$11.99 Add to cartA collection of poems to help ride the waves of grief and provide comfort in the wake of loss.
Becky’s words have been read as part of funerals, eulogies and memorials all around the world, providing c
- Author: Hemsley, Becky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: February 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1915834996
- Language: English
