No Small Thing: Poems - Softcover

Rowland, Ellen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594981094 ISBN 13: 9781594981098

Publisher: Fernwood Press, 2023

Synopsis

In her new collection of poems, Ellen Rowland summons us to presence, showing us the world through an unfiltered lens that asks us to consider the beauty and truth of the ordinary. "How large each moment becomes when we stop to feel its weight". Through descriptive, sensory language, we briefly become a savored sky, a migrating bird, a woken lover. Examining themes of nature, family, love and loss, this collection addresses the larger concerns of our times - solitude, otherness, and uncertainty - while elevating the grace of the often-forgotten gifts that surround us. Weaving gratitude with grief, the infinite with the invisible, joy with sorrow, Rowland's poems invite us into an intimate conversation about what it means to be human.

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About the Author

Ellen Rowland is the author of two collections of haiku/senryu, Light, Come Gather Me and Blue Seasons, as well as the book Everything I Thought I Knew, essays on living, learning, and parenting outside the status quo. Her writing has appeared in numerous literary journals and in several poetry anthologies, most recently The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy and Hope is a Group Project. No Small Thing is her debut collection of full-length poems. She lives off the grid with her family on an island in Greece. Connect with her on Instagram @rowland.ellen

Edition details

• Publisher: Fernwood Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1594981094
• ISBN 13: 9781594981098
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 92