SOS, Surviving Suicide: a collection of poems which may save a life, was released by Dean Stalham (Nirala publication,New Delhi ) It is a collection which includes my poem Deathiversary, A Year and a Day Later, and all of the people you can see beneath the book cover. Yuyu Sharma, my friend from Nepal was kind enough to ask me to contribute.
This is all pretty great, and maybe it will save a life---as many of us have been touched by a suicide or have considered it ourselves.
Let me tell you though, that's a powerful ass poem if it'll cure depression and get someone off the ledge. I'd like to recommend counseling and a psychiatrist for mental health needs, and also to know this number, which is the Suicide Prevention Hotline :
800-273-8255
Contents
Foreword Carlotta Allum / 9
RAVI SHANKAR The Great Sun / 17
dPART Rope / 20 BANU ERCON That Day /
21 DANIELLE BUTTERS I nearly said goodbye / 23 CHRISTOPHER SOUTHGATE Sestina / 25
ROY BARKER I have a choice / 27
BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH You can hold your head high / 28
The Angry Black Poet / 29
TIM TOMLINSON Multiple Attempts on Dark Hollow Road, Friday Nights in Winter / 31
Last Words / 32
Godless / 33
KAREN LITTLE Along the river / 34
SADIE MASKERY No one can tell you / 35
ANON Suicide Roulette / 37
WENDY YOUNG Don’t judge/38
MIKE GRAVES Stairway / 42
SOPHIE CAMERON I love you always / 43
ALBY STOCKLEY Grenade / 45
KAREN CORINNE HERCEG Down from the Ledge / 48
EVE MCDOUGALL TIK, TOK / 49
MEGAN GARRETT-JONES Aladdin Trousers / 51
MAT LLOYD Blokes 2020 / 54
CAROL LYNN STEVENSON GRELLAS A Daughter’s Project / Getting over a Suicide / 58 To the Year of Unknowing / 59
CARRIE MAGNESS RADNA People with Sad Eyes / 61 Family Sorrows / 63
MARTIN HEAD What Could I Have Done? / 66
JASON WISTERIA ‘A catch from above’ / 68
JEREMY REED Dead Number, for Matthew Lewis / 71 Do Ya / 72
ANNE CASEY She understood/ 73
AGNES MARTON Time to Destination: Unknown / 76
SUZANNE FRENCH There’s always another day / 77
PAT LEACOCK AKA PDLpoet Strength in Numbness / 78
MADELEINE F. WHITE One for Sorrow… / 80
HENRY MADD Extraordinary Creatures / 82
PATRICK LYONS Mirrors of the Dead / 85
RORY PADDLE AKA RAWBYNATURE It’s Just the Face / 86
DAVID NO ONE Wounded / 88
SAM RAPP I Survived / 89
AGNES MEADOWS Yellow / 91
GIL DE RAY Erasing Awareness / 92
SIMON MILES On Chelsea Bridge / 97
DAVID ERDOS Let’s play these words as Ace / 98
DAVE MANKIND Let’s All Hang Together / 101
GILL FEWINS The Day After I Kill Myself / 103
KIRSTY ALISON Install the Update / 105
JUDITH MOK The Whetter of the Knife/ 108
DAVID AXELROD Nothing Monumental/ 109
BILL WOLAK Lost in Darkness/ 110
JAMES RAGAN To a Mother and Child at the LA Mis- sion Shelter / 112
CATHERINE ALICE WOODS Rocket Ships and Fireworks / 113
FERN ANGEL BEATTIE Mining Rubies / 114 A
MAR AAKASH Messiah Puppy / 115
TIM KAHL The Fermata / 117
GERARD BEIRNE Ways of Survival / 118
TIMOTHY GAGER Deathiversary: Years and A Day Late/119
SANDRA YANNONE Grief / 120
YOGESH PATEL Hofstadter’s Strange Loop / 122
ANNA HALBERSTADT A Warm Weekend In May / 123
MEGHA SOOD The Note / 125
PATRICIA CARRAGON Just Say I Love Him / 127
DARIUSZ TOMASZ LEBIODA The Last Letter Of Romek Jaskier / 128
AMANDA GOVAN Life Drawing / 129
JOHN PRASTITIS Light Pours Out / 131
LUKE SULLIVAN I Stand on the Quay / 132
YUYUTSU SHARMA You see it coming, Lincoln Centre / 134
CARLOTTA ALLUM We Watched Her / 136
DEAN STALHAM Daddy Duties/ 138
The Poets Of SOS Surviving Suicide / 145
Acknowledgments / 153
1 comment:
Looking forward to reading your poem. I'll get the book when I feel up to it. Keven's one year is 8/11 and I'm experiencing intense sadness each day as it gets closer.
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