Paperfields Press: 4 books

"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...

In her third poetry book, Bianca Bowers explores the complexities  of love by asking the question: “What if our brains are slaveowners and love was never meant to be imprisoned?”  “I would not love the ocean  if she were shallow and I cannot love you like this So I will stop  like a hurricane before its death.”

Take a poetic sojourn on the bridge between dream and reality. In her second book of poetry, Bianca Bowers shifts between consciousness and sleep, reality and dreams, as she seeks to find passage in a restless landscape. "My feet were fused with a 7-lane highway. My spine, dismantled; a map of...

On 30 May, 2016, at 1.52 am, I woke from a dream and scribbled… I am the mother who always loved you Seventy three lines later I had penned a cryptic poem that seemed to contain an urgent message. In my fifth poetry book, I invite you to suspend disbelief and enter the magical...