Unlike its eponymous, ironic, title, the characteristic 20th century preoccupation with discovering meaning seems to be at the thematic heart of this book. The possibility of love as a candidate returns again and again. The work is often cerebral seeming to exist in a world of thought only, which makes incursions into the sensual the more striking.

this is the serious record of a lifelong engagement with love + its cousinsI like the fierceness in the poems. Tony Hoagland

A finalist in the 2014 Indie Excellence Awards, this is a collection of prose poems on love, loss, longing and yearning, and on dealing with the vagaries of life. It is a small journey from the deepest emotions of love and loss to the sometimes overwhelming realisation of the beauty of life.

Exciting music, delicious ironies, radiant self-awareness. With imagination, wit and scrupulous candour, Chris Hutchinson’s poems negotiate and renegotiate the shifting no-man’s-land between self and others, introspection and public life. Here are poems carrying unflinching perceptions on their own innovative, edgy music, refusing inflations of rhetoric and complacent notions of the inner life, bringing skeptical intelligence and radical imagination-those supposedly incompatible room-mates...

This collection of Japanese haiku by American singer and composer, Don Raye is a delightful contribution to the world of haiku written in the English language.Like Haiku sings as haiku should—of life and joy, and sorrow and the seasons. Nor is this surprising for Mr. Raye is a successful song writer. For him no subject is too trivial, and none is too deep to put into poetry. He writes for Hope and History; Women and Wanderlust; Soul Brothers and a Seeing Eye Friend; Ego an...

Life Is Simpler Toward Evening is an inspirational, thought-provoking poetry book with poems featuring such topics as the majesty of clouds, the loneliness of being apart from a loved one, and always, the glory of God.Fr. Ralph Wright, who is a poet of great distinction, pens works that reflect his knowledge of and respect for the masters. His images are both beautiful and startling; his metaphors perceptive, his use of rhyme natural.His expertise lies in the unity of word ...

Tying together the recurring elements of a decade in reflection, this debut book from acclaimed poet M.H. Freeman — Before I Leave — elucidates the cyclicism of life while depositing a positive outlook in stressed and sullen hearts.Framed by four topical pillars — loneliness, adoration, depression, and philosophy — these poems, the majority having been composed between August 2012 and August 2013, exhibit many facets of life we all experience but find difficult to speak.

This collection of poems by the rock lyricist Robert Hunter, best known for his songwriting contributions to legendary performers such as Bob Dylan and The Grateful Dead, features rhythmic, philosophical meditations on art, authenticity, public perception, and love. Hunter delivers his lines with effective and deceptively simple language, the ideal vehicle for his timeless, wide-ranging observations about the relationships we have with our expectations, our mythology, and each other as we ...

Empty shells are on the shoreThe living ones are out to sea.Come then and follow meI have some friends with a boatAWSfrom And He Descended Into HellSo begins an invitation to a journey. In this moving collection of poems, Al Starkey travels into vast and often uncertain territory. He grapples with an array of topics and questionslove, despair, joy, darkness, hope, ignorance, wisdom, injustice, failure, faith, growing old, death, heaven and helltak...

APHOR DĪT ISMS is prose-poetry written in the late 1980s and first published here in ebook format in 2022 by The Room editions. A limited edition hardcover version is available upon request.

Sorrow, like that subtle dagger conquering the sword, owes its strength to stealth. It is a brooding thing. A bleeding depression like the lonely light of the moon ever searching for the waking few who enjoy basking in its gloomy embrace. Truth be told we all bathe in its hollow light from time to time. When lover's leave, when family flees, when death seethes….we all bask in the midnight gloom

Desire in its multifariously limpid and obscure manifestations is one of the salient themes that informs many of the poems in this collection, from the way it is experienced in its recognisably subjective forms as longing, love or intention, to the more challenging notion of its expression as artefact – the objective creations of daily use such as cups, tables, books and money. Consonant with this notion is the way language allies itself with it to make it actual – this book you are holdin...