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Writing Between the Lines: Poetry Collection
Each natural jewel has its own unique brilliance. Catch the fire in a diamond and it's like no other. As Nolcha catches the fire from other's poems, these reflections create a whole new light show. As you read through the poems, you may find remnants of life's experience weaving through. Like the light streams through stained glass windows, there are illuminations, sun dogs of brilliance, fractures melded into brilliant streams of color, of light.
~Nolcha Fox is fearless. She walks the literary tightrope between success and failure with grace and elegance and she never ever disappoints. For my money, she's simply one of the most remarkable writers to come along in years.
John Yamrus, author of Don't Shoot the Just Give Him a Good Place to Hide
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Nolcha Fox's new poetry book, Writing Between the Lines, is a keen collection of poems that begin and end with two lines from another poet's poem. Although two lines are credited to another poet, the reader is taken into a new story and resolution decorated with vivid imagery and metaphors.
Barbara Leonhard, author of Three-Penny A Poetic Memoir
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"Writing Between the Lines" by Nolcha Fox is a collection that surprises at every turn. Written as part of a 30-poems-in-30-days challenge, each piece begins and ends with borrowed lines from other poets, yet what happens in between is unmistakably Fox's own voice.
The poems move effortlessly between humour and heartbreak. In "Drunk," night, sleep, and dawn stumble together like a merry band of revellers, while "My Father's Death" cuts deeply with raw grief and memory. "Dog Days" transforms the sun into a mischievous dog splashing through a creek, while "Keep Things Simple" delivers biting dark wit.
Nolcha Fox excels at capturing the contradictions of human experience, sorrow and absurdity, longing and laughter. Her imagery is sharp, her tone daring, and her honesty uncompromising.
Munmun Samanta, author of Yellow Chrysanthemum
~Nolcha Fox is fearless. She walks the literary tightrope between success and failure with grace and elegance and she never ever disappoints. For my money, she's simply one of the most remarkable writers to come along in years.
John Yamrus, author of Don't Shoot the Just Give Him a Good Place to Hide
***
Nolcha Fox's new poetry book, Writing Between the Lines, is a keen collection of poems that begin and end with two lines from another poet's poem. Although two lines are credited to another poet, the reader is taken into a new story and resolution decorated with vivid imagery and metaphors.
Barbara Leonhard, author of Three-Penny A Poetic Memoir
***
"Writing Between the Lines" by Nolcha Fox is a collection that surprises at every turn. Written as part of a 30-poems-in-30-days challenge, each piece begins and ends with borrowed lines from other poets, yet what happens in between is unmistakably Fox's own voice.
The poems move effortlessly between humour and heartbreak. In "Drunk," night, sleep, and dawn stumble together like a merry band of revellers, while "My Father's Death" cuts deeply with raw grief and memory. "Dog Days" transforms the sun into a mischievous dog splashing through a creek, while "Keep Things Simple" delivers biting dark wit.
Nolcha Fox excels at capturing the contradictions of human experience, sorrow and absurdity, longing and laughter. Her imagery is sharp, her tone daring, and her honesty uncompromising.
Munmun Samanta, author of Yellow Chrysanthemum
38 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 30, 2025
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September 30, 2025
"Writing Between the Lines" by Nolcha Fox is a collection that surprises at every turn. Written as part of a 30 poems in 30 days challenge, each piece begins and ends with borrowed lines from other poets, yet what happens in between is unmistakably Fox’s own voice.
The poems move effortlessly between humour and heartbreak. In “Drunk,” night, sleep, and dawn stumble together like a merry band of revellers, while “My Father’s Death” cuts deeply with raw grief and memory. “Dog Days” transforms the sun into a mischievous dog splashing through a creek, while “Keep Things Simple” delivers biting dark wit.
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The poems move effortlessly between humour and heartbreak. In “Drunk,” night, sleep, and dawn stumble together like a merry band of revellers, while “My Father’s Death” cuts deeply with raw grief and memory. “Dog Days” transforms the sun into a mischievous dog splashing through a creek, while “Keep Things Simple” delivers biting dark wit.
Read the full review here: https://samslibrary.com/writing-betwe...
October 17, 2025
Room for Us
Room with us because it’s only when you get close to these poems that you see how good they really are. As it should be. All good poems command our full attention. It’s as if the poet were saying, “Take the time and care to read these poems that I put into writing them. A reciprocal situation, an unwritten contact between writer and reader. Right from the start the poet says, “My sport is evading morphing decay.” One way to convey an appreciation of Writing Between the Lines is to take a close look at three aspects of these thirty poems about what it means to be alive: metaphor, self and other, and invention. Writing Between the Lines is one good book!
Room with us because it’s only when you get close to these poems that you see how good they really are. As it should be. All good poems command our full attention. It’s as if the poet were saying, “Take the time and care to read these poems that I put into writing them. A reciprocal situation, an unwritten contact between writer and reader. Right from the start the poet says, “My sport is evading morphing decay.” One way to convey an appreciation of Writing Between the Lines is to take a close look at three aspects of these thirty poems about what it means to be alive: metaphor, self and other, and invention. Writing Between the Lines is one good book!
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