Books published by Vocamus Press

THE RHAPSODY ANTHOLOGY is an annual collection of poetry and very short prose by Guelph and area writers.The 2014 edition of the anthology includes a variety of local writers, from established authors to emerging talents, on subjects that run from first-time parenthood to ominous snowplows, from dead insects to polio outbreaks, from skating in Guelph's market square to the taxonomy of birds. They come together to reveal an intriguing part of what literary Guelph was in the year 2013 / 2014.

I WANT A POEM is a collection of lyric poems that explores the relationship between poetry and desire, reflecting on what we need poetry to say and to be. This reflection is what unifies the collection as it moves between the many forms that desire takes in us. Its verse is both vigorous and delicate, rash and reflective, poignant and humorous, as it evokes the many faces of our human needs.

ABANDONED BY THE MUSE is the second bundle of poetry by Bieke Stengos. Its poems draw their imagery from her emerging identification with the landscape between Guelph and Kitchener in Ontario, Canada. Bieke's writing attempts to internalize the landscape in order to make it home. Anyone who has had to leave a home and rediscover another elsewhere will recognize their experience in her verses, as she writes through loss and exile into the hope of homecoming.