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  • Requited

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    What is unrequited love? What is requited love? And what does it take to heal when love is gone? In this honest, enthralling debut collection of poetry and prose, Kerri Olivia gives voice to love, loss, grief, and healing. Her insightful...


  • In the Presence of Beauty

    New and Selected Poems
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    With remarkable attention to detail, a broad range of knowledge, and an obvious love of language, Dow moves between detailed nature poems, poems about personal grief, lyrical love poems, and narrative poems of times spent in far-off places. With...


  • God's Word In Verse

    Heartfelt Poems From God
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    In God’s Word in Verse, Callie B. Turner shares her love for God through twenty-one faith-based, heartfelt poems, written in response to her prayers for guidance. The words of these poems will comfort, uplift, encourage, and bring peace to those...


  • Good Morning, Mama

    Sweet 'n' Salty Poems
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    Good Morning, Mama generously offers a glimpse of the poetic works by Léo Lajeunesse, representing decades of writing. Through both rhyme and free verse, he covers a wide spectrum of subjects: hypocrisy and politics, love and kindness, prayer and...


  • Anomaly

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    Anomaly is a coming of age debut eager to describe the depths of what it’s like to be feminine in the 21st century. A collection of poetry investigating the early resistances of change, while also recognizing the grief and expectation that is...


  • A Flatlanders View

    the poems of Joseph Miller
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    In this début collection, Joseph Miller pays tribute to his life. Buzzing with gritty, inner-city Canadiana, crackling with wit, thrumming with deep love and intimacy, these poems acknowledge sorrow and celebrate beauty. Asparagus grows from a...


  • In the Garden

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    Nature—an all-encompassing awareness, sought by the few who understand the truth it brings, and quenched by those who slumber in the midst of it. An awakening of the heart is where knowledge begins. In the Garden draws the reader closer to the...


  • Journey of the Heart

    An Oasis of Peace
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    A gateway into a new realm Awaits me with open arms Vivid imagination Divine communication Journey of the Heart is an evocative, compassionate collection of poetry, prose, and photography that celebrates the natural world and the human place...


  • Burritt's Rapids and Beyond

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    In BURRITT’S RAPIDS AND BEYOND, “whatever flows, remains.” From Winnipeg, Vancouver, Montreal, and rural Ontario, Louis Contant considers his place in the world. Fireflies, whip-poor-wills, squirrels, dragonflies, waterfalls, and the soulful...


  • The Poems of My Life

    Rhyming Poetry
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    This book is for you, as much as the poems are directly about me, believe me it is for you. To encourage you to write your own stories and your own poetry. To remember your grade 5 self that their words matter, that you matter. This book is for...