Between Becoming and Belonging: Poems of Adventure, Love, Loss, Longing

Between Becoming and Belonging: Poems of Adventure, Love, Loss, and Longing What is a life for? Inspired by the Odyssey and the questions it leaves unanswered, this sequence of poems explores the tensions that shape human lives: between endeavour and rest, witness and belonging, longing and fulfilment, certainty and change. Through journeys by sea and desert, pilgrimages undertaken in hope, battles that alter their ground, and roads that turn where we never intended to go, these poems ask what we bring home from our travels, what remains when home itself has changed, and how we continue when the horizons we once trusted begin to recede. As the sequence unfolds, its questions widen beyond the individual to embrace the communities and societies we build together: what we honour, what we destroy, what we pass on to those who follow us, and whether we can learn to live without becoming what has harmed us before. At once intimate and universal, these meditations on adventure, love, loss, fellowship, and longing invite readers to consider not only how we live, but perhaps, of greater importance, what we live for.

Pagina's: 36, Paperback, Kolonna Press