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Splinter of the Moon is a book of introspection, soul searching, and understanding of the psyche and the snakes and ladders game played within it. Russell knows love, laughter, sorrow, rejection and all the emotions that run the gamut between. He imparts the fallout of his life-long education in the school of hard knocks with eloquent ease and great depth of persona.

Iced tea, like poetry, looks deceptively easy to make. The ingredients are simple, but there is a fine balance between bitterness and sweetness. And that simplicity and balance takes time, patience, and care. The same holds true for Greg Stidham's refreshing, full-bodied poetic debut. Like the poet Ted Kooser, Stidham's poems are straightforward and direct, praising common objects, and ordinary experiences. Here is a poet who trusts and celebr...

Short Shots 2 is a poetry book of SHORT poems for poetry lovers and NON poetry lovers. This is a book for everyone. Love, inspiration, passion and sorrow permeate the pages.- The poems are short, sweet and to the point yet thought provoking, and comforting. This book is perfect for quick reading. Easy to lay down and pick up again and again and again.

If I Were a River' not only explores personal and universal themes of illness, death, grief and forgiveness, it also transports the reader into a surrealistic dreamscape where deceased family members appear, disappear and often offer comic relief and spiritual guidance. These poems reflect on significant childhood memories that shaped the author's life coupled with her urgency to piece together these fragmentary remembrances before they shift ...

Spiritual Whispers is a glimpse into the ethereal and esoteric landscape of the mind, a walk through the borderlands of eternity and a guide to self-realization, parallelism, and soulmates. It is a salve for the soul.

FOREWORD: Is there beauty in a grey sky? In an empty field or sewage plant? There might be beauty in these things, in the waste and bald tires, in the forgotten byproducts of our contemporary life. But beauty, like truth and meaning, is not waiting to be found, it must be created and fought for. Beauty requires effort- the perceivers and creators of beauty must put the work in. Sometimes, they might even have to die for it. But we, the creator...

Kathy Ashby's poems are fresh, lively and full of energy. They have a down-to-earth, grass-roots quality, with genuine charm and an appealing bounce to them. There is also much artfulness and flair to her writing, which has the versatility to tackle a wide variety of subjects and ranges of moods. Kathy plays with her sounds and rhythms, and they always make sense, giving the reader a feeling of inspiration. This book is sectioned into the foll...

CHASING YOUR TAIL is both humorous and sobering. It's the story of a young man getting nowhere fast in life, who is growing more disillusioned by the minute and has become so fed up with the situation he's about ready to explode. Jim works in a cubicle all day long. Sometimes it comes close to driving him mad. He's a writer on the side and is just as frustrated in that department. His best friend Will lives just down the road in Philly and he ...

Matt Thomas's first full-length collection of poetry, Disappearing By the Math, is an exploration of middle age depicted as a series of instants in which the future and past coexist, nature is a daily barrage of questions, the Walmart and post office become locations of existential revelation, and God peers from the details like a cat from the weeds. Thomas has a way of transporting you to other spaces and times: some of them achingly familia...

Fretwell uses indents, varied line lengths, and single line stanzas to emphasize her verse that reflect both poise and poignancy on the impact humans are having on the planet. Her earthy affection is delivered in a contemporary Canadian style that, put in a musical context, would compare to a soulful sax-jazz rhythm, combined with rapped alliteration and set in a classical theory of personal point of view. Fretwell breathes what she feels. At ...

As the Garou's "Northern Den" and the Noctrailis' long history is slowly revealed, the war between them and within them has really only just begun. The story takes place in small town Ireland where a chilling case of grisly murders has shocked the Sapien community, baffled the police force and has kept local investigative newspaper journalist Cara-Marie McKenna on her toes. Excellent character development and sustained suspense prevail as the ...

Everything has changed, Tyler is now the Alpha of the Northern Dun and also a new mother. The pressure from the south is growing to a new height. Other clans and the Noctrailis from other countries are infiltrating Ireland and the Garou are under attack. A couple on a romantic weekend away are slaughtered on a beach. Over and above this crime scene, the police now have another problem on their hands. A 'Master Hunter' has arrived from England ...

Volume 2 of Moon Dancing picks up where Volume 1 left off. There is a New Year's beach party killing in the opening pages which leads to the discovery of a renegade Noctrailis wandering the Mourne Mountains and leaving a trail of grizzly killings in its path. And there is the missing body from the morgue that just seems to have resurrected itself and walked out. The ongoing battle between the An Rua and the Noctrailis is enough but now the Sou...

Shards of Crystal is an eloguent, emotional, and moving book of poetry written straight from the soul. Creativity shines throughout, especially in the poems "Cool Jazz", :Rx" and Death Wish. An undertow of grief and sorrow is eased with remembering the joy of moments past and the hope for moments to come. This is a book of hope and renewal and a lens on the resilience of the human spirit.

Mitch and Jessy Taylor are on the Moon, fully suited, collecting mineral specimens, when they find oxidised minerals from an ore deposit in Mendeleev Crater on the Lunar Farside and incredibly, they are spectacularly crystallised. It totally shatters Earthly thinking, plentiful oxygen, water and pressure on the grey, dead Moon! Then there is the bizarre object they find sitting within the oxidised zone. God knows how long that had been there. ...

Of great interest throughout are the quotes by well known famous personages. The title of this literary offering by Charles D. Tarlton, Miscellanea, is a word that means assorted or miscellaneous items, especially literary ones. This is a gathering of poems from various places and moods. It is set in three sections: Verses, Collaborations, Longer Poems. The reader will be pleased with the eloquent weave of the words and will not be disappointe...

ININ CONVERSATION Vol. IV is a further collection of haiku poetry conversations between two like-minded people. Although the subject matter does not strictly adhere to conventional haiku, the form does adhere to the 5/7/5 structure of conventional haiku. These intimate and heartfelt conversations take the reader on a special and emotional journey weaving through the heart and soul patterns created by these two poets. It is a close-up look at t...

A Silence of Echoes plumbs the depths of love and desire and walks the devastating tides of emotional turmoil and sorrow. It moves through the fields of relationships and merges into the realms of destiny, fantasy and otherworldly overlaps and imaginings. We are in this world to experience the highs and lows of living. Although we may not see the merit in the lows we are handed, they can be the greatest gifts bestowed upon us. We are the stude...

Matthew Jose and Candice James are known as one entity, "CAMA JOJA", on their home planet Evidaris. When transporting to the Earth realm they automatically split into two entities which allows them to have separate and unusual, quirky and far out imaginings which they funnel into their collaborative poetry stories which serve to meld together the thoughts and short visualizations of Evidarian/Earthling potential and probable happenstances. ...

Amy Winston, age 75, decides to liberate her childhood friend Clara, who has Alzheimer's Disease, from the Daffodil ward of Spring Garden Manor. When Amy's plan for her friend somehow miraculously succeeds, the two old friends take off for the south with great and hopeful expectations of a better life once Clara is freed from her medicated stupor. Along the way Amy finds out how difficult it is to care for her friend, but when Clara finally re...