Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Book of Counted Griefs and Melancholies
    The Book of Counted Griefs and Melancholies
    The Book of Counted Griefs and Melancholies
    Ebook77 pages15 minutes

    The Book of Counted Griefs and Melancholies

    By Christine Forshner

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Join the Canadian poet in their second collection, this one written over a multi-year period while navigating the murky waters of personal grief and loss, within the background of a world doing much the same.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLemorn Literary Works
    Release dateDec 15, 2023
    ISBN9798215943090
    The Book of Counted Griefs and Melancholies
    Author

    Christine Forshner

    Writer. Editor. Gamer. Pharmacy Technician.If archaeologists going through boxes in her parents' basement can be believed, Chris has been writing legible stories since being shown how to make letters. She began editing in school while "helping" with others' homework and the mental red pen never quits. (Not even ads are free of its glare.) She is an avid gamer (both tabletop and video), reader and writer outside of a day job as a pharmacy technician specialising in reports.

    Read more from Christine Forshner

    Related to The Book of Counted Griefs and Melancholies

    Related ebooks

    Poetry For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Summer Playlist: Beyond the Cyclical

      Jun 20, 2018

      It’s summer, which means it’s time for a new playlist. Instead of seeking out new music, I decided instead to play through the songs in my current music library, combing for old or undiscovered gems. If you’re like me, you’ve accumulated music over t

      8 min read

    • Article

      A CLOSER LOOK AT Dying Wise

      Jan 31, 2018

      A CLOSER LOOK AT Dying Wise
      12 min read

    • Article

      Poetry Rx: You All Have Lied

      May 17, 2018

      Poetry Rx: You All Have Lied
      5 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems

      Nov 1, 2019

      It’s soothing when the newly dead are way older than I am. This guy was 95. His picture—middle-aged, archaic glasses—freezes him somewhere around 1970. But even when they are my age and live in my town and share so many of my habits and interests tha

      6 min read

    • Article

      Collins Ferry Landing

      Jul 1, 2020

      for my father Only rivers bottom out like this.Only rivers bottom out with this kind of conviction.Not humans, or, at least, not humans asindisputably human as you were,trapped in consciousness’s surplus, exilic,animalized absurdity, writhing in its

      5 min read

    • Article

      Button Chair

      Dec 16, 2020

      THE anxiety simmers and sputters, threatening to spill over into the sunshine of the day. I am consumed by the trivial things on my to-do list: E-mail this person, put the dishes away, vacuum the living room, balance the checkbook. And then there is

      6 min read

    • Article

      For All Ages

      Oct 10, 2022

      For All Ages
      4 min read

    • Article

      How To Write A Swan Song

      Nov 26, 2022

      How To Write A Swan Song
      8 min read

    • Article

      Constructing Love And Truth

      Nov 1, 2020

      ML Your poems make me fall in love with you. The poet you. That’s because I search my whole life for voices that organically resonate in my bones and spirit and I find one, then I fall in love. These poems in Atomizer make me fall in love in a way th

      12 min read

    • Article

      Mud Month

      Dec 12, 2019

      Mud Month
      6 min read

    • Article

      Poetry Rx: Ordinary Sex

      Apr 11, 2019

      Poetry Rx: Ordinary Sex
      6 min read

    • Article

      Learning to Grieve

      Sep 1, 2020

      Learning to Grieve
      9 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Dec 1, 2022

      You have to first Sit in the temple gloom In the mahogany chair & despair. The only glimmer In the temple (being the inlaid bits of The Mother-Of-Pearl shells On the tall, more than humanly tall Chair back, for these These too Are the reputed “Tears

      3 min read

    • Article

      Jeff VanderMeer On Writing For Happiness and What to Read Next

      Mar 2, 2017

      Last night, Jeff VanderMeer treated fans and readers to a great AMA over at Reddit, during which he answered questions about his Southern Reach trilogy (the first of which, Annihilation, is soon to be a film), the writing process, climate change, gen

      6 min read

    • Article

      Five Minutes With Jeremy Bolm Touché Amoré

      Nov 12, 2020

      What’s the worst thing about being in a band? “The most obvious answer would be dividing your time between home and the road. It’s a grass is always greener situation, isn’t it? When you’re at home you miss the road; when you’re on the road you miss

      3 min read

    • Article

      Anne Lamott

      Nov 2, 2020

      Anne Lamott
      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Book of Counted Griefs and Melancholies

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Book of Counted Griefs and Melancholies - Christine Forshner

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1