Grief The Miramichi Reader

Antonyms for Daughter by Jenny Boychuk

January 3, 2022 by Pearl Pirie

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

January 3, 2022December 13, 2021 by Alison Manley

The Blue Moth Motel deals with family dynamics, grief, and the concept of home.

A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson

September 4, 2021 by Joanne Gallant

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

January 3, 2022August 7, 2021 by James M. Fisher

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”

May 8, 2021 by Chris Banks

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

May 23, 2021March 25, 2021 by Bill Arnott

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

September 3, 2020 by Chris Banks

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

July 31, 2020 by Lana Shupe

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

January 15, 2018January 15, 2018 by James M. Fisher

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