“Breathtaking and heartbreaking, grief-kindling and life-inflaming. A finely crafted poetic provocation. April Tierney is not only a keeper of memories but a curator of mysteries. She’s a teller of terrible and trenchant truths, a maker of magic, a weaver of worlds. You’ll see.”
— Bill Plotkin, author of Soulcraft and Wild Mind
Memory Keeper
What is the embodied shape of memory? How is it cared for and set down into the hearts of future generations? Where lives the land of forgetting? Throughout these poems, April Tierney weaves together personal, collective, ancestral, and land-based memory into a single, glistening cloth. She courts the cultural necessity of tending to what might otherwise be lost, by writing her way into the past as a prayer for what is yet to come.
Origin Stories
In April Tierney’s second full length collections of poetry, stories are praised for the faithful and fiercely alive creatures that they are. Her attention to beauty and heartbreak alike is a kind of medicine for our times. As with any life properly lived, nothing is hidden in these pages, and so everything is given away.
Singing to the Bones
A book of poetry that reveres the mysteries of living and dying in a time that is bereft of such visceral beholding. It is part love song, part lament, and part unvarnished longing. Singing to the Bones is a fierce call to kneel again at the hallowed arc of our humanity.
Exposure
Exposure is a large-scale book of images and stories in honor of our humanity––a collection of courage, candor, grace, longing, and heartache.. It asks us to look deep into the face of our authenticity, in order to excavate the beautiful, whole, vibrant people we were each born here to be.