Documentary and Witness poetry capture the turbulence of contemporary life, its urgent issues where we all often helplessly confront individual crises and global disasters.
An Israeli student of archaeology takes charge of her first dig, to find the lives she digs up impinging on her own. Hammama Madmoni, a new Yemeni Jewish immigrant to Israel, gives birth to a daughter. The child disappears, and she is told the child died.
Stories and essays whose diverse characters struggle with loss, class disparities, and time.
a powerhouse crime book like The Silence of the Lambs fused with anime and Grimm's fairy tales. This incendiary novel, beautifully-written and at times horrifying, tells... Læs mere
Christmas 2021, Todd Swift was in ICU, close to death. His heart had failed. A selection of new and older poems, published as a fundraiser for Todd, who cannot currently work, or indeed, face anything much more stressful than an episode of Gardener's Question Time...
These are poems of a child born in the age of decolonization, and specifically in the very aftermath of the sort of destructive civil war colonial policy made inevitable in the exploited parts of the world.
This collection breaks down into sections that deal with marital love, youth, racism, suicide, death, imprisonment and writing. Lawrence doesn't seem to have a firm simplistic grip on... Læs mere
Meet Henrietta, 25-years-old, from a once-infamous family... At first glance, she appears to be your average young British person - hooked on the online world, struggling with identity issues, facing a housing crisis, and navigating a dangerous world of toxic authority.
Written by a former Naval Flight surgeon now the Chairman of Surgery; a memoir of a young surgeon in training who is struggling with the challenges facing him and unsure if he wants to stay on his current path. An inspiring story about and by a physician.
After the suicide of his son Jack in 2015, journalist Cosmo Landesman set out to write an anti-suicide/ anti-grief memoir that was angry and cynical about the way we look at death, suicide and grief.
A Petit Mal is a text for a broad range of audiences--from those interested in healing and alternative medicine, to students, teachers and lovers of innovative creative nonfiction.
A first anthrax attack is thwarted, what is next cannot be stopped and many school children die. US and Canadian officials must work together. A young man, a medieval historian, a young... Læs mere