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The Hungry Snowman and Other Poems is the worthy grandchild of A Child's Garden of Verses. Creating an irresistible world out of exemplary, simple language, Tocco's poetry charms with portrayals of...

Author: Deborah DenicolaPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: March 09, 2021Number of Pages: 127 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952326966ISBN-13: 9781952326967

Arnold Johnston's The Infernal Now offers us poems that are acutely aware of mortality, counterbalanced by the timelessness of poetic forms, especially the sonnet, which he manages with flair...

"[W]e lose our children from the moment they are born." So writes Carolyn Light Bell in her intimate preface to The Joshua Poems, which bear out this sentiment. The opening piece depicts a child...

The Joy of Their HolinessAuthor: Peggy TurnbullPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Jul 09, 2020Number of Pages: 36 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952326125ISBN-13:...

Harry White's second collection of poems, The Kenmare Occurrences, impresses with its finely balanced and moving meditations on how the happenings of ordinary life can produce both a sense of the...

The Kind of Noise Worth Writing DownAuthor: Richard LeduePublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Oct 25, 2021Number of Pages: 38 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1639800603ISBN-13:...

Elizabeth Spencer Spragins truly is in touch with ancient bards and the glorious music of the incantations of druidic sisters in her collection The Language of Bones. Roaming the geography and...

Harry White was born in Dublin in 1958. He was educated in Dublin and Toronto, where he was awarded the University of Toronto's E. J. Pratt medal for poetry in 1984. He has been Professor of Music at...

The Last Bridge Is HomeAuthor: Rodd WhelpleyPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: May 01, 2021Number of Pages: 60 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1954353529ISBN-13: 9781954353527

A few words cannot contain the breadth and depth of these deeply moving poems. They capture the long shadow that the Holocaust has cast over so many lives. This slim volume reminds us that we must...

The Lawyer ChroniclesAuthor: Thomas J. EricksonPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Sep 30, 2020Number of Pages: 56 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952326524ISBN-13:...

You're the real thing-the way you're able to write on such an enormous variety of subjects and though the forms change the voice is consistent. [Because] the writing is rooted in the daily lives of...

In the striking and profoundly tender collection, The Life You Gave Me, Claire Drucker skillfully probes what it means to be a daughter, a mother, and an occupant of a climate in crisis. There is...

The Loneliest AgeAuthor: Richard LeDuePublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Oct 08, 2020Number of Pages: 38 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952326591ISBN-13: 9781952326592

The Machinery of GraceAuthor: Patrice Boyer ClaeysPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Feb 20, 2020Number of Pages: 64 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950462730ISBN-13:...

Llewellyn McKernan's The Manifesto and Its Blue Ball is a collection of earlier poems (that show the writer feeling and figuring in insightful ways toward a poetic maturity), as well as more recent...

Author: Jos? Lu?s OsegueraPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Jun 06, 2020Number of Pages: 92 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950462927ISBN-13: 9781950462926

The Moon's ChildrenAuthor: Michael JenningsPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Jul 27, 2020Number of Pages: 80 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952326087ISBN-13: 9781952326080

There is so much beauty in Patricia Caspers' The Most Kissed Woman in the World, and a lot of darkness, too. In each "Portrait of God" Caspers finds the sacred somewhere unexpected: a pungent ginkgo...

The OnesAuthor: Kathleen LathamPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Oct 19, 2024Number of Pages: 76 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1639806598ISBN-13: 9781639806591

Poetry AnthologyAuthor: Kelsay Books, Jenna SumpterPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: June 29, 2021Number of Pages: 153 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1639800034ISBN-13:...

Poetry AnthologyThe Winter 2024 issue features work by the following poets: Adele Kenny, Alan Basting, Alfred Fournier, Alyssa TroyAndrew Alexander Mobbs, Angela Yeh, Ann Bodling, Ann Howells, Anna...

The Oriole & the OvenbirdAuthor: Angela PattenPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: January 25, 2021Number of Pages: 40 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952326915ISBN-13:...

Collection of poems chronicling the author's recovery following a torn ACL.Author: Alexandria WyckoffPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Mar 13, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

Just as perfume is the distilled essence of fragrant oils, the poems in this new collection by Suzanne Underwood Rhodes are products of a sensitive poet's capturing the essence of what it means to...

Author: Julie WeissPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Aug 14, 2021Number of Pages: 82 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1954353839ISBN-13: 9781954353831

The gentle, light-filled poems of Cristina M. R. Norcross are just the medicine we need for these disturbing and distressing times. Reading The Poetry Apothecary is like taking that first step into a...

Beguiling and brave, The Remaining Years beckons readers to fall through the world's rabbit hole, the portal which is the everyday world, the commonplace, but not as we know it. And because one...

Sandra Noel's writing in The River evokes a time and place as languidly fluid as their title suggests. intimate, but inviting, her poems trace themes of coming of age, guilt, family, and loyalty. In...