Coming soon from The Wild Rose Press!
When the Bough Breaks
A cryptic note from her dead mother.
A nosy neighbor who becomes a suspect in a murder investigation.
An attractive police inspector knocking at her door.
Two mysterious men who seem to be following her.
An unwanted African Grey parrot.
A town full of secrets.
How much more drama can a mild-mannered genealogist handle?
A nosy neighbor who becomes a suspect in a murder investigation.
An attractive police inspector knocking at her door.
Two mysterious men who seem to be following her.
An unwanted African Grey parrot.
A town full of secrets.
How much more drama can a mild-mannered genealogist handle?
Reckless Pilgrims
Loosely based on the author’s almost-four-decade adventure into country living and the city beyond.
Rooted in both the love of a local place and the poesies of Kentucky, Allison Thorpe’s poems are emblems of change that teach us to search, know, and then “relearn our heart.” Thorpe’s “green theater of spreading hills” is a pilgrimage through a life rich with wonder, love, damage, and loss. We are guided by the voice of the poet-farmer singing the “joyous seeds of hope” as well as the poet-pilgrim who never shirks reality: “fever, fires, insane / men who rule the world.” These remarkable poems navigate the unique and striking journey of living a particular life with communal details and astonishing imagery and pull us “like a rogue tide” toward “the next luring bend, sparkled, drenched.”
- Marianne Worthington, poetry editor, Still: The Journal
Available through Broadstone Books, Amazon, or directly from the author.
Rooted in both the love of a local place and the poesies of Kentucky, Allison Thorpe’s poems are emblems of change that teach us to search, know, and then “relearn our heart.” Thorpe’s “green theater of spreading hills” is a pilgrimage through a life rich with wonder, love, damage, and loss. We are guided by the voice of the poet-farmer singing the “joyous seeds of hope” as well as the poet-pilgrim who never shirks reality: “fever, fires, insane / men who rule the world.” These remarkable poems navigate the unique and striking journey of living a particular life with communal details and astonishing imagery and pull us “like a rogue tide” toward “the next luring bend, sparkled, drenched.”
- Marianne Worthington, poetry editor, Still: The Journal
Available through Broadstone Books, Amazon, or directly from the author.
The Shepherds of Tenth Avenue
Allison Thorpe's gimlet eye misses nothing: girlhood, womanhood, home, and the natural world are all given equal due through a poet's gaze as loving as it is sharp, as generous as it is appraising. These poems love what they're talking about, and I love them right back.
Sarah Combs, author of The Light Fantastic
Available on Amazon, through Finishing Line Press or directly from the author.
Sarah Combs, author of The Light Fantastic
Available on Amazon, through Finishing Line Press or directly from the author.
Dorothy's Glasses
From her discovery of Dorothy Wordsworth and her writing, Allison Thorpe has created a stunning garden of poems that will resonate with women everywhere. Layered with color and fragrance, and rise with authenticity, this book will nourish the heart. An impressive collection not to be missed.
Jan Sparkman, author of Lucy J.: The Life and Times of an Early Feminist
“Everyone saw you in / fragments / even you.” Allison Thorpe writes of Dorothy Wordsworth, William’s sister and muse. In Dorothy’s Glasses, Thorpe makes Dorothy whole. By prefacing each poem with one of Dorothy’s journal entries, she merges their two lives and time periods, linking them by the experience of each as women. This volume helps recover, by Thorpe’s empathy and imagination, the lost history of one more woman who was previously only a footnote, if that. Thorpe does truly see through “Dorothy’s Glasses,” and so will the reader!
Elizabeth Oakes, author of Leave Here Knowing
Available on Amazon or directly from the author.
Jan Sparkman, author of Lucy J.: The Life and Times of an Early Feminist
“Everyone saw you in / fragments / even you.” Allison Thorpe writes of Dorothy Wordsworth, William’s sister and muse. In Dorothy’s Glasses, Thorpe makes Dorothy whole. By prefacing each poem with one of Dorothy’s journal entries, she merges their two lives and time periods, linking them by the experience of each as women. This volume helps recover, by Thorpe’s empathy and imagination, the lost history of one more woman who was previously only a footnote, if that. Thorpe does truly see through “Dorothy’s Glasses,” and so will the reader!
Elizabeth Oakes, author of Leave Here Knowing
Available on Amazon or directly from the author.
Thoughts While Swinging a Wild Child
in a Green Mesh Hammock
I no longer recall when or where I first read a poem by Allison Thorpe, but I do recollect that her poetry immediately impressed me with its intelligence, force, and vividness. Her verbal facility claimed my full attention. I recall a sense of discovery, a feeling that her poems came out of a wide-awake, observant life filled with diverse experiences.
While Allison Thorpe’s Thoughts While Swinging a Wild Child are her own individual thoughts, and while her journey is a private one, we realize, through her poems, how widely her thoughts and experiences are shared. Her poems are a means by which the poet examines her life; through them, we can see our own lives better.
Jim Wayne Miller, author of The Mountains Have Come Closer
Limited copies available directly from the author.
While Allison Thorpe’s Thoughts While Swinging a Wild Child are her own individual thoughts, and while her journey is a private one, we realize, through her poems, how widely her thoughts and experiences are shared. Her poems are a means by which the poet examines her life; through them, we can see our own lives better.
Jim Wayne Miller, author of The Mountains Have Come Closer
Limited copies available directly from the author.
Swooning and Other Art Forms
Winner of the Edna Meudt Memorial Award from The National Federation of State Poetry Societies. In., 1992.
(Out of print)
(Out of print)