A life converted into pages, one breath at a time. Oxygen Turned Into Chapters is a focused selection drawn from Poetry, Even When, Life Experience Too, A Double Star System, and What Can I Say? It gathers poems about survival, love, attention, breath, and meaning into one coherent arc. Where a broad anthology offers the full map, this collection is the doorway: the moments where staying alive and paying attention become the same act. Written across years of travel and experience, these po...

A life converted into pages, one breath at a time. Oxygen Turned Into Chapters is a selected poetry edition drawn from Even When, Life Experience Too, A Double Star System, and What Can I Say. It offers a focused journey through survival, love, attention, resilience, and meaning—an accessible doorway into Shaun J Apple’s wider body of work. For readers seeking contemporary poetry about starting over, finding meaning, and staying alive.

More than fifty real travel photographs become rhyming adventures for curious children. Captain Appletastic turns a globe-trotting dad’s real snapshots into playful stories, one-minute Mini-Missions, and spaces for children to preserve memories of their own. It is a picture book, activity book, and travel diary in one—bright, warm, and made to be shared by kids and grown-ups.

Twenty-two selected poems unfold through two movements, Seen and Unseen. Built around visibility, love, longing, disability, and partial vision loss, Please Let Me Be Seen becomes a moving plea to be witnessed while seeing itself grows harder. A focused contemporary poetry collection for readers who know the ache of feeling invisible and the human need to be truly known.

States is a book of poems about the conditions we live between. It moves through five movements, from Sweet Poetry to Rusty Astronaut, and its subjects are the plain ones that fill a life: wanting to be known, the fear of losing what matters, the pull of childhood memory, the body under weather, the small self beneath a very large sky. Shaun J Apple writes without ornament and without flinching, turning private thought into lines a reader can stand inside. The collection was first drafted ...

The book people quote back to each other. What Can I Say? is Shaun J Apple's most quotable collection. The poems are wry, confessional, and built to say the thing out loud that most of us only think and swallow. They move from a shrug into a gut-punch, from a joke into a confession, often in the same breath. Nothing is over-explained. The poems trust you to feel the drop without being warned it is coming. These are poems people learn by accident, the ones that turn up in a caption or a toa...

If you have ever felt too much and said too little, start here. Slices of Life Experience is the easiest way into the work, and a greatest-hits collection for anyone already inside it. This mosaic brings together 42 poems from across Shaun J Apple's catalog. Trauma, love, loneliness, humor, and the stubborn act of staying alive are sequenced to read straight through or open at random. Every poem earned its place by refusing to be cut. It is an ideal first book from a poet who has spent 25 ...

When the institutions chose fear, a room of strangers chose the truth—and kept people alive. Nobody Disposable is Shaun J Apple's firsthand account of the harm-reduction rooms he helped build and hold, Bluelight and r/trees, where anonymous strangers told the truth around the clock and kept one another alive. It is clear-eyed about drugs, dignity, public health, and policy; it never preaches and never looks away. Nobody is disposable. Not even the stranger. Especially not the stranger. For...

A worried little dog learns that an overthinking mind is still a good one. The Dog Who Overthought Everything follows a soft-hearted corgi who thinks too hard about everything: monsters, weather, loud things, and whether the shadow in the corner is a friend or a foe. Through gentle adventures and one quiet interlude, it offers kids and their grown-ups a kinder way to hold anxious thoughts. It never promises the worry disappears. It offers something truer and more useful: that a careful, fe...

Please read carefully. You already clicked accept. I Agree is the terms and conditions of a human life, delivered as the user agreement none of us read and all of us signed. It is comedy assembled from fine print: warranty cards, one-star reviews of existence, and disclaimers that turn out to be true. The joke keeps deepening because the fine print keeps being honest. Life ships without a rollback. You are the test and also the release. It is very funny, and then, without warning, it is no...

International Book Awards Gold Medal: RelationshipsLiving Now Awards Silver Medal: MarriageSince it was first published, The Soulmate Experience has helped thousands of people around the world create relationships that are intimately connected on all levels—emotional, intellectual, sexual, and spiritual—and a continual source of love, inspiration, and joy.Whether you're single and searching for the love of y...

Political poems for the age of enshittification, from someone who helped build the internet and then watched it turn. We Thought These Were Modern Times is Shaun J Apple's clear-eyed survey of the platforms we now live inside and the slow rot underneath them: propaganda, death by subscriptions, celebrity, and the quiet decay of the internet's early promise. Laid out like a field map, the collection moves from a functional society through anti-propaganda and the actual politics of money. It...