New Poetry Collections! One Bright and Real Caress & From Inside These Wild Ones

It’s been a polypoetic productive wow of the den time. I’m happy to have both tended emergent spring seedlings and rallied some organizational gusto to get together a few new collections of poetry. I’m particularly thrilled about these two as they’ve wanting to find wings for a while now. If you are a nature and poetry lover, I think you’ll love these collections. Some of them you may even seen here on this blog. May the poems inspire your wild nature hearts and be a small part of The Great Turning.

The first ones released are One Bright and Real Caress and From Inside These Wild Ones. Paperback pre-orders and E-Book copies available now.

One Bright and Real Caress is a celebration of the moment. Of not escaping. Of impermanence. Of death as life partner. With syllables of relentless affirmation, these poems bring an unconditional caress over all the textures of life and our multitudes within. As an invitation to presence and an honoring of the all-too-real struggle to not flee the moment, One Bright and Real Caress welcomes every conceivable crescent mood, slivered and slow, with no aim but to edge out more and more into the whole ceremony and celebration.

One Bright and Real Caress is Book 2 in the Re-Membering Series.

Paperback pre-order available now.
Release date summer solstice, June 20.

AND/Or: Download your digital copy of One Bright and Real Caress now HERE. You can also get a digital e-book sent directly to your device from Amazon.

From Inside These Wild Ones is a collection of earthy poetry emerging from the author’s experiment of living outside with the seasons and the living sky as his heart-home roof. From bees, bears, and birds, to storms, snakes, and silence, these poems honor the animate web of life and our intimate relationship inside it. The poems here are not only reminders of the mystery of our other-than-human kin, but evocations of the animals we are. These 75 poems weave lyric, humor, and mythopoetic exploration to invite a multi-species, embodied, and soulful participation in the unfolding symphony of life. The beasts within are lurking, listening, yearning to live.

From Inside These Wild Ones is Book 3 in the Re-Membering Series.

Paperback pre-order available now.
Release date July, 2025.

AND/OR: Download your digital copy of From Inside These Wild Ones Now as a pdf here.
You can also get the E-book sent directly to your device from Amazon.

The Paperback version of From Inside These Wild Ones will be released July 24, 2025.

Sign up here if you want to be among the first to know when the other new collections An Ambitious Silence, Becoming Beautiful Barbarians, and Trust the Ceremony, F*ck the Ceremony, Trust the Ceremony become available over the rest of 2025.

In the meantime, you can always get the first book in the series: Re-Membering: Poems of Earth and Soul.

with purple irises singing spring,
Ryan, Wild Nature Heart