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The Edge of the Sky's lyrical and narrative poems take the reader on a journey into the natural world: the awe and wonderment of birthing new life, the power of seed breaking through acres of land, the pulse of an underground spring. They encompass life lived more hours outdoors than indoors. This journey involves an engagement with large animals: a bull, breeding cows, companion horses, as well as pesky cats. The journey takes twists and turns through war, death, and the passing of time via images and metaphors that ring true with fellow human beings wherever they live in this interesting world.

Light to Light is a delightful chapbook of 24 peoms by minimalist poet Kate McNairy. They play with themes from love, loss, and the universe, often with a humor that tingles the reader.

This book is a collection of poems that involve the outer world of nature. Yet even more, they involve the inner realm of stories revisited and poetry as narrative of the happiness and struggles experienced by an adoptive mom dealing with her children's pre-adolescence and teenage years - a challenging time of life which was made more difficult by how their young bodies, mental perceptions, and emotional regulation (or lack thereof) were permanently affected by alcohol while still in the womb of their biological mother."Favorite Auntie Emu" refers to the fact that the presence of Fetal Alcohol Effects/Fetal Alcohol Syndrome was like having a relative whom we never quite "saw" but whose presence brought mystery, confusion, sadness, and joyful surprise.

APORIAC is a series of vignettes on the changing nature of relationships and perspective from 'whispering in the back seat' of childhood to later in life 'when words are just another noise'. Set against Western Australian suburban and coastal landscapes, you will pass through 'the rusty chicken-wire gate' to find 'a shadow of things unsaid' and your 'clothes scattered over the wooden steps' on a beach 'lavish with treachery and strays'. This collection contains the prize-winning poems 'Harlequin Street' and 'Nude Descending a Staircase', which won The KW Treanor Poetry Prize in 2013 and 2014 respectively, and 'Sometimes behind the Wallpaper', awarded second place in The Kathleen Julia Bates Memorial Poetry Competition 2014.

The author searches for the soul of the marketplace in the selves, sites and stuff that animate our acquisitive quest. He offers a fieldworker's view - at times critical, at times celebratory - of consumer experiences that pervade our lives. From the local to the global, his evocative images reflect the poetics of desire in which we are all immersed. This is a loving and lyrical look at our radiant buyosphere.

In 2013 a New York Times headline proclaimed that turtles are "Coldblooded, but Surprisingly Smart." These poems cry out the echo of that proclamation, especially for Rosemary Lombard's long-time turtle colleagues at the Chelonian Connection cognition laboratory. In these poems we meet a sea turtle lazing above the anemones; a box turtle entranced by the harvest moon or demonstrating her understandings and skills; a pancake tortoise enraged by poachers and dealers who steal him from his African life on a hill above the savanna; and a tortoise helping with a frog jigsaw puzzle in "Puzzle" (a winner in an environmental-themed gallery exhibit and Oregon Poetry Association contest). Welcome to the world of the shelled!

Composition Studies, by Annie Hinkle, is a metaphorical exploration of the relationships between reader, writer, and text. This lyrical and episodic collection includes poems published in Ascent and Southern Poetry Review.

Ruby Mountain takes readers on a powerful, evocative spiritual and personal journey of the Mojave Desert by longtime poet/resident Ruth Nolan. These poems, written in an exciting mix of high and low poetic forms - from sonnet to ragged free verse - employ the very best of imagery, poetic subtleties, and evoke the inner poetry of the desert's exotic geographies and more recognizable iconic features, and embrace a wide sweep of subjects, including a lover's suicide, environmental protests against large-scale renewable energy project sited on sacred American Indian sites, and a re-telling of one of the Mojave Desert's most famed and enduring romantic tragedies, the story of Willy Boy.

A lifelong painter who uses the sensuality of language to express the emotions and process of creating. Not like most writers who riff only about the subject matter on a canvas because they don't know what it's like to pick up a brush, to convey emotion through color.

Early versions of the poems in this collection first appeared between 1972 and 2016 in journals such as; Southern Poetry Review, Cold Mountain Review, Illinois Quarterly, Anglican Theological Review, Old Hickory Review, Alive Now, Weavings, Belle Rêve. Still: The Journal, and The Pikeville Review. Some of these poems, such as "Take Nothing for Your Journey," On A Sermon on I Chronicles," and "A Mad King Weeps the Loss of His Son" take their inspiration from Biblical narratives. Others, like "Entering the Seminary", "Sarah's Bath" and "Tubing White Oak Creek" are based on personal experiences. Still others are based in legend and oral traditions such as "Storyway," "The Circuit Rider," "Snipe Hunt", and "Song of the Shaman."Michael Williams' first published poem appeared in the Southern Poetry Review in 1972 when he was twenty-one years old. He has published poetry in journals since then and is the author or editor of twenty works of non-fiction, Take Nothing for Your Journey is his first published collection of poems. "The Song of the Shaman" was awarded a Triton Award for Poetry by Triton College (Illinois) and appeared in the anthology, Passage. He has served as a United Methodist Pastor for over forty years and as General Editor of A Storyteller's Companion to the Bible.