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The Intercessions
THE INTERCESSIONS by W.E. Isaacson
In The Intercessions, Winter gathers prayers from the ashes of Notre Dame and binds them into sonnets that stand as vigil candles against the dark. This sacred cycle of poems weaves ruin with hope, memory with mercy, and lament with the quiet resolve to rebuild what fire could not consume. Rooted in real history yet alive with devotion, these verses speak as priest and pilgrim, guiding the reader through stone corridors and vaulted prayers into a gentle resurrection of faith. The Madonna of the Streets appears in quiet corners, her hidden face a reminder that mercy often walks unseen among the forgotten. Wildflowers sprout from ashes, olive groves stand watch over old scars, and relics of thorns and timber carry whispers of the Passion into a modern age of flame and fragile hope.
The Intercessions is more than a book of poems; it is a vigil in your hands — an invitation to stand watch over the ruins of faith, culture, and heart, and to believe that light still flickers in the embers. Each sonnet turns prayer into art, each stanza bends like a ribbed vault to lift the reader’s gaze higher, asking us to remember that the true cathedral is not only built of stone but of living hearts who dared to intercede. For all who stand among the broken beams — whether of ancient cathedrals or their own inner sanctuaries — these pages offer a psalm for the restless, a hymn for the hidden, and a quiet benediction for the faithful who keep singing when the world falls silent. From riverbanks and relics to the final whispered hymn, The Intercessions calls us to kneel among the ashes and rise singing, a chorus of watchmen keeping vigil for dawn.
61 pages Now available . . .
Storm Watcher
STORM WATCHER by W.E. Isaacson
W.E. Isaacson’s Storm Watcher is a powerful return to form — a luminous and classically wrought collection of 85 new poems, steeped in the tradition of sonnet and song. Her voice, at once prophetic and intimate, draws from ancient sources and modern stirrings, evoking the wind-lashed beauty of coastal landscapes and the intricate symbolism of Pre-Raphaelite art. From Cleopatra’s court to the cloisters of contemporary Catholicism, Isaacson paints vivid scenes with poetic brushstrokes.
A lover of rhyme and rhythm, she crafts sequences that echo the musicality of the past while navigating the mysteries of the present. Her work offers readers the comfort of an old library, the spark of the Romantic imagination, and the stillness of a chapel on a rainy afternoon. Storm Watcher invites readers into a windswept world of myth, memory, and divine observation. A master of the Petrarchan sonnet, Isaacson returns us to the golden age of poetry with her signature lyrical grace and painterly eye. From prophetic musings to lush landscapes, this collection casts its gaze across history, art, and the soul, offering poetry that is both timeless and tenderly human. With a touch of the mystic and the measured grace of a true woman poet, Storm Watcher leaves its mark as both a personal revelation and a work of enduring literary beauty.
261 pages Now available . . .
Benediction of the Singer
BENEDICTION OF THE SINGER: A COMMENTARY by Emily Isaacson
In this landmark commentary, Benediction of the Singer, poet and visionary Emily Isaacson offers a spiritual cartography of one of her most resonant works, Love in the Time of Plague. Through theological insight, poetic reflection, and personal narrative, this book explores the prophetic dimension of poetry as it confronts modern crisis, cultural fragmentation, and longing for transcendence. Each section weaves the sacred into the ordinary—from street-level musings to cathedral elegies, from whispered gardens to requiems that echo like the great hymns of our century.
With a structure as critical as it is intricate, this work draws comparison between Isaacson's poetry and the poetic revelations of Wordsworth, Blake, Rossetti, and Dickinson—yet Isaacson’s voice remains singular. Hers is not an evangelical gospel of certainty, not the Sinner’s Prayer, but a treatise of song. With the eye of a mystic, the heart of a saint, and the simplicity of a street person, her poetry examines suffering, solitude, and beauty with unflinching grace. Benediction of the Singer is both literary witness and spiritual offering: a commentary that reads like an exposition on restoration, and a benediction that opens the door for readers to encounter the eternal within the temporal.
403 pages Now available . . .
Requiem
Requiem . . . the mysterious poem in seven stanzas that premiered right before the coronation of King Charles the III.
What inspires the poetry?
Emily Isaacson's poetry draws its inspiration from many sources, but one of her favourites is piano.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Famous picture of the girl poet under magnolias . . .
It was among the branches of just such a tree that a young poet posed for portraits that would become famous. Quintessentially “poetic,” the images of Edna St. Vincent Millay are immensely alluring.
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"Then the garden of your soul will bloom . . ."
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