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Pressed Flowers
"We pick flowers, knowing they will die.
We press flowers, hoping they will survive."
Reading a poem is not so different to picking a flower. Like flowers, there are some poems we want to preserve, remember, and cherish. Poems we press between the pages of a book.
This book contains eighty six of my most popular poems from my first three books: Death and Life (2014), Passage (2015), and Love Is A Song She Sang From A Cage (2016).
123 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 1, 2017
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Bianca Bowers
11 books19 followersBianca Bowers is an award-winning fiction author and best-selling poetry author. Now based in Australia, she holds a BA with double majors in English and Film/TV/Media Studies, and has authored eight books through her imprints Paperfields Press and Auteur Books: six poetry collections and 2 novels.
Find her at www.biancabowers.com
Find her at www.biancabowers.com
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January 9, 2018
With almost religious zeal in her poetry collection “Pressed Flowers” Bianca Bowers explores the depths of life, death and love through vivid imagery.
Ms Bowers’ new poetry book comprises three sections: “Death and Life”, “Passage” and “Love Is A Song She Sang From A Cage”. And although the poems in all these sections come from already published books, the present selection paints a fascinating and unexpected picture.
Multiple layers are characteristic of Bianca Bowers’ poetry and this is true also of the first section of “Pressed Flowers” – in “Death and Life” death too is multifaceted. The poet finds it not only in actual physical death, but also in different forms of loss, depression, exile, etc. But all manifestations of death present a chance for growth and rebirth. As the poet herself says, “from death comes life”.
Reading the poems from the section “Passage” was also extremely intriguing for me, reminding me of the rites of passage that could be found in many cultures around the world. But although the rituals described by poet Bianca Bowers are of her own making, they are charged with the potential to touch different audiences with their imagery, emotions and stories.
The last section “Love Is A Song She Sang From A Cage” features the different faces of love. The poet, a master of impersonations, skillfully conducts the reader through the emotional states of the lyrical persona.
In “Pressed Flowers” Ms Bowers does not disappoint her audience, offering masterfully crafted verse. All her poems tell a story painted with unexpected and thought-provoking imagery.
Having discovered “Love Is A Song She Sang From A Cage” by chance in the last months of 2017, I suppose you can imagine how happy I was when I learned that Bianca Bowers has published a new collection of poems!
Let us not leave her poems pressed between the pages of the book, but set them freely roaming the world by reading them! “Pressed Flowers” deserves to be read, remembered and cherished and least but not last - reviewed!
Ms Bowers’ new poetry book comprises three sections: “Death and Life”, “Passage” and “Love Is A Song She Sang From A Cage”. And although the poems in all these sections come from already published books, the present selection paints a fascinating and unexpected picture.
Multiple layers are characteristic of Bianca Bowers’ poetry and this is true also of the first section of “Pressed Flowers” – in “Death and Life” death too is multifaceted. The poet finds it not only in actual physical death, but also in different forms of loss, depression, exile, etc. But all manifestations of death present a chance for growth and rebirth. As the poet herself says, “from death comes life”.
Reading the poems from the section “Passage” was also extremely intriguing for me, reminding me of the rites of passage that could be found in many cultures around the world. But although the rituals described by poet Bianca Bowers are of her own making, they are charged with the potential to touch different audiences with their imagery, emotions and stories.
The last section “Love Is A Song She Sang From A Cage” features the different faces of love. The poet, a master of impersonations, skillfully conducts the reader through the emotional states of the lyrical persona.
In “Pressed Flowers” Ms Bowers does not disappoint her audience, offering masterfully crafted verse. All her poems tell a story painted with unexpected and thought-provoking imagery.
Having discovered “Love Is A Song She Sang From A Cage” by chance in the last months of 2017, I suppose you can imagine how happy I was when I learned that Bianca Bowers has published a new collection of poems!
Let us not leave her poems pressed between the pages of the book, but set them freely roaming the world by reading them! “Pressed Flowers” deserves to be read, remembered and cherished and least but not last - reviewed!
November 30, 2018
"We pick flowers, knowing they will die.
We press flowers, hoping they will survive."
These were the first few lines I have read by this author and I instantly knew I had found a great thinker, careful to details, full of emotion and life experience.
I think poetry should be read in small doses, few at a time - poetry is like honey - delicious, intoxicating - so much emotion is expressed in just a few words.
My favorite poems from this collection are:
Blue Butterfly -
“Time is powerless
to smudge her memory
Her blue wings at peace
in my heart”
Insomnia
Yesterday
Merlot Heart
Proposal
Monarch
Trapped
Lotus in the Sahara
In the End
The Memory of Water
September
Palace
My ghost bekons me
Love is a song
Branches
Love Paradigm.
I was planning to buy this book but I have received a free copy of this collection because I have subscribed to Bianca Bowers's newsletter on her website.
I'm looking forward to reading Butterfly Voyage (her fifth poetry book) and her upcoming novels as well.
A voice that strikes cords - I highly recommend reading her work.
We press flowers, hoping they will survive."
These were the first few lines I have read by this author and I instantly knew I had found a great thinker, careful to details, full of emotion and life experience.
I think poetry should be read in small doses, few at a time - poetry is like honey - delicious, intoxicating - so much emotion is expressed in just a few words.
My favorite poems from this collection are:
Blue Butterfly -
“Time is powerless
to smudge her memory
Her blue wings at peace
in my heart”
Insomnia
Yesterday
Merlot Heart
Proposal
Monarch
Trapped
Lotus in the Sahara
In the End
The Memory of Water
September
Palace
My ghost bekons me
Love is a song
Branches
Love Paradigm.
I was planning to buy this book but I have received a free copy of this collection because I have subscribed to Bianca Bowers's newsletter on her website.
I'm looking forward to reading Butterfly Voyage (her fifth poetry book) and her upcoming novels as well.
A voice that strikes cords - I highly recommend reading her work.
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