Can’t Help Falling: A Long Road to Motherhood by Tarah Schwartz
Can’t Help Falling: A Long Road to Motherhood by Tarah Schwartz, is about one woman’s perilous journey toward motherhood—toward mothering her son.
Grief
Antonyms for Daughter by Jenny Boychuk
Antonyms for Daughter, Jenny Boychuk's poetry debut, addresses a harrowing subject: the loss of the poet's mother to addiction. Deploying a range of forms and techniques astonishing in a first collection, Boychuk creates unsparing scenes of their complicated life together.
The Blue Moth Motel by Olivia Robinson
The Blue Moth Motel deals with family dynamics, grief, and the concept of home.
A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
A Town Called Solace is a masterful, suspenseful, darkly funny and deeply humane novel by one of our great storytellers.
A Womb in the Shape of a Heart: My Story of Miscarriage and Motherhood by Joanne Gallant
A Womb in the Shape of a Heart is the intimate story of Gallant's journey through miscarriage and motherhood, holding space for the complicated paradoxes of grief and gratitude, of life and death, and the impenetrable depths of a mother's love.
Revelation and Reconciliation in Rob Taylor’s “Strangers”
In Strangers, Rob Taylor makes new the epiphany poem: the short lyric ending with a moment of recognition or arrival.
Music from a Strange Planet by Barbara Black
Off-beat, provocative, philosophical, Music from a Strange Planet traces the fault lines of identity and emotional attachment. Grief, tenderness, and longing soak the pages, admitting the reader into the intimate places of the heart.
The Only Card In A Deck of Knives by Lauren Turner
her debut collection The Only Card In A Deck of Knives out with Wolsak &Wynn publishers, the poet Lauren Turner takes us “to the edge of something” as she writes in the first line of her poem “If You Haven’t … Continue reading
You Won’t Always Be This Sad: A Book of Moments by Sheree Fitch
Everyone experiences grief in their own way. Sheree Fitch is a writer and it made perfect sense for her to write about a mother’s deepest grief – the loss of a child. Within the pages of this book, Sheree shares … Continue reading
My Chaos: Searching for My New Normal by Rick C. Benson
Rick C. Benson BA, BEd, MA (Pastoral Studies) is the current Director of Spiritual and Religious Care and is a Grief Recovery Specialist working out of St. Joseph’s Hospital in Saint John, New Brunswick.
I first heard of Mr. … Continue reading