Songs from a Wild Place

Songs from a Wild Place is Jason Kirkey's second volume of poetry.  Its motifs range from self-transformation, quiet revelations found in the natural world, love, and the re-imagination of culture and spirit. In all cases this poetry emerges out of a conversation with the world at the edge of individual identity. It is a book about finding the authentic voice and using it to create transformation in both the human and other-than-human worlds.

Literature & Fiction

Kirkey, Jason

Poetry

Hiraeth Press

The Ballad of the Sea-Sweet Moon tells the story of a mythic encounter with the divine feminine and how it shakes and shapes the life of one man, setting his heart ablaze. In their poetic and tantric love-making, cities and structures of consciousness will fall, ultimately making room for a new way of being in the world. This collection also includes a newly edited version of the chapbook September Seeing and several never before seen poems.

The Ballad of the Sea-Sweet Moon and Other Poems

Songs from a Wild Place is Jason Kirkey's second volume of poetry. Its motifs range from self-transformation, quiet revelations found in the natural world, love, and the re-imagination of culture and spirit. In all cases this poetry emerges out of a conversation with the world at the edge of individual identity. It is a book about finding the authentic voice and using it to create transformation in both the human and other-than-human worlds.

Here at the end of the Cenozoic Era with the life systems withering away, a surprising creativity appears, a kind of mystical balancing act. The world’s spiritual traditions are entering into deeply engaged conversations through which the riches of each are ignited in new ways. With The Salmon in the Spring, Jason Kirkey has boldly carved out his place in this exciting work with his original interpretations of the concepts and stories of ancient Ireland . . . Kirkey’s vision speaks directly to our present ecological challenge. Rejecting those nature-??denying forms of spirituality that have been used too easily to justify our domestication of the planet, The Salmon in the Spring announces its thrilling spiritual foundation: 'Our wild nature is our soul.' ―Brian Swimme, California Institute of Integral Studies

Salmon in the Spring: The Ecology of Celtic Spirituality

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

Homebound Publications

The poems in this book are an attempt to speak in a common tongue with mountains, rivers, and forests. Too often poetry is thought of as the domain of human creativity with its source in the depths of the imagination. We use it to speak of the world, but not to the non-??human world―let alone with it. The poems in Estuaries suggest that speech and poetry are fundamentally rooted in the ecosystem―the detritus of fallen leaves, the curvature of a river bend, and the sound of rain on a heron’s wings. All of this might be regarded as the speech of the Earth. When we speak or write poetry that engages these voices we become participant in the patterns of the watershed.

Estuaries

The Taste of Water and Stone is a deer trail through the last decade of Kirkey's poetry.Along its course, it charts a way through mountains, forests, and estuaries, through personal transformations and mythic encounters. The selected works have been revisited and revised to stand comfortably alongside a series of new poems. The result is a collection in answer to and enactment of the question, how do we rewild the human heart?""

The Taste of Water and Stone: New and Selected Poems

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Songs from a Wild Place

The Ballad of the Sea-Sweet Moon and Other Poems

Songs from a Wild Place

Salmon in the Spring: The Ecology of Celtic Spirituality

Estuaries

The Taste of Water and Stone: New and Selected Poems