We're All Home Now Poems
In his first book-length collection, New Hampshire poet Russell Rowland draws several decades of published and unpublished work into an extended reverie on the families and communities that mean “home” to us—how they form, re-form, and sometimes deform those they nurture.
By implication, readers are invited to place themselves into the poetic context Rowland creates, to feel “at home” with him, and to reflect on their own homes—past, present, future—until poet and readers can affirm together: “we’re all home now.”
“With a New Englander’s wisdom and wit, the poetry of Russell Rowland examines what it means to be human. These poems are plainspoken, yet gracefully formal. With compassion and incisiveness, their careful attention to how we live discovers the elemental truth of their observances.”
—Walter E. Butts, New Hampshire Poet Laureate, 2009-2014
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$12.95 / paperback /87 pages / 5-1/2 in. (w) by 8-1/2 in. (h)
Beech River Books / 2018 / ISBN 978-1-930149-41-0
Russell Rowland is the author of two chapbooks. His work has appeared in many small journals, receiving seven Pushcart Prize nominations and a Best of Net nomination. He is a past winner of Old Red Kimono’s Paris Lake Poetry Contest, and has twice won both the Plainsongs Award and Descant’s Baskerville Publishers Poetry Prize.
