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This collection of poems grew out of the Covid-19 pandemic. They reflect how our everyday experiences were turned upside-down, shaken out, and landed in a very different world. A world where much of what was taken for granted, no longer held true. A world where so much of normality was stripped away, revealing what was superfluous. Revealing the essential, the most basic of our needs. Often the simplest of things. Such as touch. Each of the poems is followed by a glimpse behind the scenes. Shining a light onto the sometimes moving, sometimes amusing inspirations behind them.

In Touch the Earth, Drew Jackson continues the project he began in God Speaks Through Wombs, reflecting on the Gospel of Luke through poetry. Touch the Earth picks up in chapter nine and continues through the end of Luke's Gospel. Part protest poetry, part biblical commentary, Jackson presents the gospel story in all its liberative power. Here the gospel is the "fresh words / that speak of / things impossible."

Curing The Midas Touch is a collection of poems taken chronologically from one of Smiley’s journals written between August 2011 – February 2013. His poetry brings to light a moment in his spiritual journey when after being filled with pride, he began to see his hopes, visions, and dreams begin to fail. Curing The Midas Touch reflects the process of God refining Smiley in fire so that he could embrace failure and learn from it.

Part lyric essay, part prose poetry, Where Things Touch grapples with the manifold meanings and possibilities of beauty. Drawing on her experiences as a physician-in-training, Orang considers clinical encounters and how they relate to the concept and very idea of beauty. Such considerations lead her to questions about intimacy, queerness, home, memory, love, and other aspects of human existence. Throughout, beauty is ultimately imagined as something inextricably tied to care: the care of lovers, of patients, of art and literature, and the various non-human worlds that surround us.

The Don't Touch Garden explores what it is to be adopted, both for the child and the adoptive parents, through a wide range of poetic styles and complex emotions. An absorbing account of the legacy of being an adopted child. Forthright and tender, this moving sequence reflects Foley's unflinching gaze into the mirror in a sometimes excoriating attempt to discern traces of her belonging, and to make peace with the past. Joy Howard, Poet, publisher and former Fostering Services Manager.

Inside this debut collection, girlhood’s dangers echo, transmuted, in the poet’s fears for her son. A body just discovering the vastness of “want’s new acreage” is humbled by chronic illness. Epithalamion turns elegy. But this world that so often seems capricious in its cruelty also shelters apple orchards, glass museums, schoolchildren, century-old sharks; “there’s no accounting for / all we want to save, no names.” Oliver’s polyphonic gathering of speakers includes lovers and saints, painters and dead poets, a hawk and a mother.

The Lovin' Touch stories are the gentle ravings of a man who was suddenly shocked to find himself in love. Some of you may have heard some of these stories years ago. If so, you may be pleased to know that Dick is still shocked, still raving, and still in love with the same woman. Lovin' Touch is about that woman.

Butterfly, Fly! is a book of free verse poetry that shares personal perspectives about the impact that divisive social constructs and racial trauma can have on life outcomes. It also touches on mental illness, spirituality, and the pursuit towards trusting a power higher than self, as a means to overcoming.

Rays: Wherever They Touch reach Jim Ross's short poetry and streams into our lives as it did in Scattered Reflections, A Plea to a Wine Cork, and Daydreams Alongside Surf. Evocative, the nature of Rays is fluid, expanding and contracting as it draws us along. As with Daydreams, even a brief listen inspires the magic of this wonderful book - wherever you listen.

Charlotta lehrt ihren Opa Claudius dieses Mal das Geheimnis des Wartens. Ohne Warten könnte vieles im Leben gar nicht erst in Existenz kommen. Diese Entdeckung ist enorm wichtig für ungeduldige Persönlichkeiten.

Adonai, der himmlische Schöpfer, schenkt Seinen Menschenkindern ein großes Vermächtnis: Wurzeln und Flügel. Erfahre mehr von diesem wundersamen Geheimnis des Himmels.

Diese Geschichte handelt von jemanden, der viele Fragen ans Leben hat. Que sera – was wird sein? Schließlich trifft er jemanden, der eine sehr gute Antwort auf diese Frage für ihn hat.

A unique collection of diverse poems written over a lifetime by the author.

Heiligabend auf der Autobahn. Ein Auffahrunfall mit himmlischen Folgen. Geschichten einzelner Menschen werden erzählt im größeren Zusammenhang des Lebens. Weihnachten wird auch Dich finden.

Eine wunderbare Parabel, die befreiende Antworten gibt auf quälende Warum-Fragen des Lebens. Lerne von Konrad, wie das katastrophale Ende der Beginn von neuen guten Möglichkeiten werden kann.

Anton Huber hatte seine Frau verloren und damit auch den Sinn in seinem Leben. Erst der Geruch von Kardamom Plätzchen brachte neue Hoffnung und das Leben zu ihm zurück. Jetzt konnte es Weihnachten werden.

Sam verlor sein Hörvermögen. Mehr und mehr schwanden seine Sinne dahin. Bis zu jenem Tag, an dem er Gottes Stimme in seinem Herzen hören konnte. Das wurde zum Wendepunkt seines Lebens.

La colección «Poesía portátil» nos brinda en No creo poder tocar el cielo con las manos una traducción inédita de algunos de los escasos textos que se conservan de la poeta griega Safo, figura clave en la tradición poética femenina europea.