The Empty Bench - Songs of Love, Life and Loss by Stephen Charles Lovatt is a wonderful collection of poems that revolve around nature, love, and religion. The author's faith in Catholicism also plays a vital part in the theme of certain poems. Nature has...

Scratches and Scribbles by Patch Silver is a collection of heart-rending poems which speak about loss -- loss of a lover and a friend. The poems lay bare the author's soul. Some of the poems are dark, some angry, some passionate, bringing to light the...

Express Cafe and Other Ramblings by Heather Crouse is a collection of stories dealing with human emotions and the path life takes. All the stories are different from one another but the theme is the same. Some of them are inspiring and some are ones...

Magda Karavageli’s debut poetry collection A Tomorrow Full of Yesterday is stunning and moving. Karavageli’s poems are wonderfully approachable, so that even the most inexperienced poetry readers will be able to enjoy and gain something from her words. She dismisses with heavy-handed words to get...

Chips and a Log by Toldi Lili is very interesting with a novel idea of bringing together short stories and poems in one book. Some of the short stories are funny, some less funny. But on the whole, the book is a wonderful read. The...

Short and Simple: A Collection of Short Stories by R.L. Jones is a collection of stories with various themes such as love, angst and even vampire. The title says it all. Yet, there are some stories that I don’t find simple to understand. “Awakening: The...

Very simple and easy to understand, Poems and Prose for How Life Goes would be a lovely book to introduce children to the world of poetry. Roanne H. Fitzgibbon writes with a sing-song quality all about the domestic duties that a child and their stay-at-home...

Field Notes by Charles Butterfield is a collection of 24 poems inspired or informed by the poet's 50 years raising, training, and living with German Shepherds. A New Hampshire poet, Butterfield is a graduate of the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. His...

Between Eden and the Open road by Philip Gaber is the most honest collection of prose and poetry you are likely to find out there right now. The collection is imperfect and it asks you to look at what it offers with unafraid eyes, with...

Cometh The Two was written by Jon Messenger. The book was created in a general poetry genre. The design and layout suits the story well. It is a short story in poetry with a topic of knights-soldiers. The book has a great adventure story within...