Sixty Poems @ 60

This powerful and moving collection of sixty poems written chronologically over a period of one year when the author was 60 provides an illuminating and observational reflection of day-to-day life in a mixture of lighter and more serious works. The rhyming style creates an immersive feel to the work, while the prose-led pieces stand out in their difference. The striking honesty of the work allows the reader to act as a travelling friend or a confidant rather than an audience as they are drawn deeper into the author’s personal reflections. The moments of humour interwoven between the more painful considerations have a captivating effect.

Simply Effective

Rhian K. Bhatoe speaks out loud to her readers in this modern ‘spoken word’ style of poetry. She uses her words to highlight the questionable actions that take place in society today!

Using a unique and visual storytelling style in her poetry, Rhian makes it ‘simple’ for her readers to be immersed in her emotional and personal life experiences, whilst allowing them to self-reflect upon matters of the heart when dealing with love, life and loss.

With a passion for her community, family and friends, she uses love, humour and a little sarcasm, to capture the hearts of her readers. She offers some sound advice as her writing connects to everyday situations.

As Rhian takes her readers on this inspirational journey through life, she provides a deeper insight into emotional understanding and ways of forward-thinking! She suggests a positive outlook in difficult situations and to open up ourselves in all aspects of our lives.

Silk

Silk is the debut poetry book of A.R. AlHudaib. Run through with poems dealing with melancholic feelings of loneliness and growing pains. Moments of the past cemented between a few lines in every poem, Silk is a simple time capsule for teenagers settling into adulthood with the same fragility of a newborn. Conceptual and thematic, the book is written in chronological order and fit with fears and desires of the speaker in each corner of it.

Silhouettes

Silhouettes is a collection of reflective and personal poetry covering three decades. As the title indicates, the poems provide some information about an author who is otherwise a private man, although he has a high public profile in South Africa.

The poems contained in the book range from those dealing with universal and everyday matters like love and its various stages, to those dealing with uniquely South African matters when that country was undergoing a transition from apartheid to a democracy. They were written in different parts of the world, including the USA, the United Kingdom and, of course, South Africa.

Selah - Encounters

This book is a collection of the writer’s thoughts and expressions. Written during a tough time of COVID 19 lockdown, the writer has put on paper an internal dialogue. Hopefully she can share these with you the reader, encourage you, as she has found solace. Her message is, take heart, even during these increasingly challenging times, be hopeful.
In every difficulty there is often a glimmer of light, that will come through even when it appears darkest. This collection of thoughts is hopefully that place where you can sit within the sentiments of the writer and be strengthened and encounter that glimmer of light. And just when you least expect, there will appear joy, peace, courage and a new perception, even in the midst of life’s current challenges and uncertainty.
This book is a reflection in the stillness and how from this sense of isolation and disruptions can create a blossoming of the peaceful “lotus flower”. Beauty can arise again!
Selah

Scintillata Nee

Scintillata Nee is an extraordinary, experimental volume of verse by young author Cynthia Tenor. While the poems take the reader through the development of a personal relationship, the text is expressed in highly unusual terms: words are often chosen for their sound and/or etymology and rather than for their more obvious meaning. Strange and imaginative coinings of new words are dotted throughout the text, while many of the poems also include deliberate archaisms to evoke the history of English literature.
The collection ends with a handful of original Greek poems (along with their English translations), reflecting the author’s background.

Scarlet Sealwax

Scarlet Sealwax is a collection of twenty-eight introspective poems focusing on the essence of human relationships. In fact, it is the concept of idealized love that permeates this collection. Under the dystopian circumstances that we are currently experiencing as a species, idealized love, no matter how utopian, is looked upon as an emotional condition resulting from self-awareness, self-respect, honesty and unconditional (yet fully conscious) devotion to one's beloved, with whom one may happen to be lucky enough to experience a wholesome connection at all levels: spiritual, emotional and physical.

To the mind of the poetess, it is only through the experience of whole-hearted love and devotion that the transfiguration of the self, the miraculous rebirth of one's soul and, hence, fulfilment and bliss, are attainable. What also emerges is that self-actualization, in all respects, will only be possible if one is prepared to shake free from intentionally fabricated misconceptions about what is right and what is wrong. It is to break, to shatter, I dare say, the “rusty moulds” of what has been falsely established as “the norm”. This is actually just a set of poisonous and mutilating stereotypes, maiming people’s thoughts, deeds, dreams, potential and their whole lives.

Sad, Sardonic and Hopeful

After years of being told to write down her sardonic musings, MJ Fuller finally took the plunge. These poems explore the various thoughts that she, and others, have had at various points in life, and are easily read and accessible for all.

Whether you are a poetry novice or a poetry veteran, there is something in these verses for you. The poems of Sad, Sardonic and Hopeful take the reader on a journey through the eyes of the poet. That journey can be happy, sad, comedic, tragic or whimsical, but it’s certainly a journey. A perfect, little, evocative escape from a very manic world.

Run they said.... War of the Mind

Mental health is a journey, it has lots of ups and downs. Just like life, we never know which way it will go: from happiness to sadness, from worry to not a care in the world. There are books, films and discussions which try to tell you which way to turn, when realistically you are the only one who holds the answers. Sometimes, though, you need a bit of help – and that’s what I got from the strangest place, inside my head! A poet: whenever there was trouble, he appeared and led me back to happiness, helping me on my journey.
My friend the poet plotted my pathways and shaped my future, carving my destiny as we went through the darkest periods of my life with the only support coming from within and from the pen, which indeed is mightier than the sword. It can write or draw happier days and times, even if the parchment is used and damaged.
From darkness into light through inner strength and the spoken and written word…
“Si vis pacem, para bellum.”

Run They Said...

Run They Said… Well, they may have said ‘Run’, but it certainly didn’t happen: he stayed to face life’s twists and turns head-on; made bad decisions, good decisions and decisions which actually saved his life. Not a hero by any account but a fortunate airman, he found himself the witness of countless unfortunate events, strangely coming out of one and straight into another, all of them recorded in poetry and written with experience.

From war zone to new baby, from the Royal household to living next to a pond full of poo in Afghanistan, the writing of Run They Said may have just kept this fortunate airman alive, giving him the chance to explain the ups and downs of a changing world, a changing life and changing attitudes to sexuality, warfare and love.

Roads Stretch

In this first collection of his poetry, David M Garnett observes the forms of nature in their environments. Many of the poems become hymns to creatures from recently receding landscapes. He depicts relationships not only among people but also with animate and inanimate objects. This also makes the collection confessional in the characteristic British mode.
Roads Stretch is very much a poetry of journey – physical, emotional and mystical.

Rhymes of Life and Love

Can we ever figure out what life is about? Dig deep into the rhyming symphonies of enticing love, fly over the dazzling winds of ambition, push through the bright lightening of daily struggles, and always remember: It will definitely shine after the darkness!

This book is a collection of poems written across many years of social and emotional explorations that we go through in life. “Rhymes of Life” focus on the social aspects such as self-help topics, family relationships, friendship, life-changing decisions, social struggles, … “Rhymes of Love” focus on romantic relationships all the way from falling in love to dealing with break-ups and then moving on.