Burning the Bacon by L. Austen Johnson comprises four distinct sections of poetry – Gravity, In Memoriam, Entropy, and Parthenogenesis. These titles fascinated me before I began to read. The title poem, Burning the Bacon, is a declaration of love whilst Molded, one line of...

The Ache of Healing: 105 Sonnets of Love and Contemplation by Christine Maalouf Abi Najm is a book of poems that is divided into four categories. The four categories are Roses and Prickles, Spirits and Souls, Places and Contemplation. She uses these to show different...

I'm Rising: Determined. Confident. Powerful by Michelle G. Stradford is the author's second book of poetry in the Rising series, following its well-received, bestselling predecessor, When Love Rises. Digging deep into a past and leveraging the pain and growth she's experienced, Stradford fills the pages...

Poems From the Heart by The Duke of Quails is a book of poems about love, not just the 'man loves a woman' type of love but about other types of love as well. He has a description in the beginning about the poems and...

Shades of Blue: The Journey of Awakening by Gino Vallejo is a stunning collection of poetry that transcends time and place with eighty poems that range from Cleopatra in Egypt to soldiers in Iraq. The collection explores themes of end days, love, sacrifice, and time...

Ode to Poet by Annika Andersson is a small collection of some eighteen poems that explores, among other things, the differing styles of poetry through history. From the Romantic Era (Late 18th-Mid 19th Century) she brings us “Springtime”, through Imagism of the 1920s, with "Brownies",...

Life is full of choices: decisions to be made, directions to take, plans to follow. “We sit on fences all life long,/ daunted by choices,/ everywhere to turn." We make our choices in life and then we have to live with them, difficult as it...

Don Gutteridge’s The Star-Brushed Horizon is a poetry collection that feels like you are walking in the same footsteps as the poet himself. He is able to bring to life his years as a passionate, youthful boy on the verge of something he may not...

The Voice of My Mind is a collection of avantgarde poetry compiled over several years by author T. A. Fish. Encompassing more than seventy poems in total, this immersive collection deals with varied themes such as enlightenment and spiritual lessons, love, heartache and loss, and...

Verses (The Harmony, Discourse and Undivided Pursuit of Wholeness) by Jewel Caston-Mendoza comprises the penned emotions and thoughts of a lover, wife, mother, and most importantly a woman whose life is chronicled in emotive verses. Divided into seven chapters and visualized by Chantece Dayshon Mendoza’s...