Just show up, that's all. Show up for me and I'll show up for you. Show up. Everything else is added detail to the canvas. Luxury. You're the painting. And I want to blend in with your colours. Your oils, your textures. Your stains and your dyes,

Our love will transcend space and time, and they'll call us a masterpiece,

You're the painting. The original,

And...

Bestselling and award-winning author Trista Mateer takes an imaginative approach to self-care in this new poetry and prose collection, Aphrodite Made Me Do It. In this empowering retelling, she uses the mythology of the goddess to weave a common thread through the past and present. By the end of this book, Aphrodite will make you believe in the possibility...

This highly-anticipated second volume of poetry and short stories combines the forces of some of the most popular poets of 2019. [Dis]Connected presents poems and short stories about connection wrapped up in a most unique exercise in creative writing. Follow along as your favorite poets connect with each other, offering their poetry to the next person who...

A stark, visceral collection of free verse and prose poetry, Skin Memory scours a wild landscape haunted by personal tragedy and the cruel consequences of human acts in search of tenderness and regeneration. In this book of daring and introspection, John Sibley Williams considers the capriciousness of youth, the terrifying loss of cultural identity and...

Even the Saints Audition is a book of poems exploring the relationship between blackness, shame, and what it is to live a life tied to the church. Rich with historical context and a deeply engaging personal narrative.

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‘Heartbreaking, important and original.’
Christie Watson, author of THE LANGUAGE OF KINDNESS

‘Derek Owusu’s writing is honest, moving, delicate, but tough. Once you lock on to his words, it is hard to break eye contact. A beautiful meditation on childhood, coming of age, the now, and the media. This work is heartfelt.’
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The Voice of My Mind, by author T. A. Fish, is an avant-garde poetry collection that took over 5 years to complete. Each poem is beautifully crafted with great virtuosity, that haunts with extreme depth and wonder. The collection deals with themes of grief, love, spiritual enlightenment, and philosophy. From beginning to end, the poems read in a mesmerizing...

Of Myriad Paths is a collection of poems and illustrations that raises awareness of challenges faced by people whether they are dealing with health issues due to accidents or addiction, ageing issues, stroke and memory loss problems, social isolation, career dissatisfaction, breast cancer and homelessness.

The stories are realistic fiction and offer...

DARK PALACE is a poetic, panoramic exploration of global violence reminiscent of severed nerves, disconnected from war and violation. The traumas come in waves: the bombed Buddhas of Bamiyan, the Iraq War, movie stars at secret parties, a passenger jet downed, Syria in ruins, the global refugee crisis, and the birth of the Dajjal. Each poem transports the...

"The Only Worlds We Know" is a nuanced and tactile look at both sobriety, and what comes after. Patient meditations on loss and the land where the people we love live and are also buried.

Dr. Leonid Altshuler M.D. is a board-certified psychiatrist. Here's what Dr. Altshuler says about his poetry:

I have been writing poetry for as long as I can remember.

Once, I posted my poetry in the local magazine, some of my psychiatric patients saw it and mentioned to me that they were using my poetry as a tool to get into the meditative state of the...

From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles, The Half-God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pride, power and female revenge.

There is something about Demi. When this boy is angry, rain clouds gather. When he cries, rivers burst their banks and the first time he takes a shot on a...