Jamieson Wolf
Number-one bestselling author
Talking to the Sky receives its first review!
Hey Everyone!I’m super excited! Talking to the Sky has received its first review!
While I work on formatting the print edition, feast your eyes on this! I couldn’t be happier with the review and my thanks go out to Elaine who is lovely (and obviously knows a good book when she reads one! LOL)
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This is a different and yet very special book of poetry by Jamieson Wolf, when life hit him with a health and medical wakeup call. For a month in 2013, he was without his writer’s voice when nothing would come out. This book is his successful attempt in gaining that voice back, using an interesting media…poetry. It has been seen as a breakthrough moment in his writing career as a divergence from his ordinary genre, but no less unusual and thought provoking at the same time. He excels at this genre also.
This is a work of integrity with a sense of completion, not only another step in one’s career, but working through life’s experiences with its up and downs. This shows us that not only can someone still achieve anything they want and strive for, but with enough work, they can even excel at it, be it in another form or subject matter.
I loved this book. Poetry is very forgiving in its many forms. That being said, this is a uniquely written form, in that it has more than one voice. The poems are also interestingly typeset so that all the different voices prevail to be heard. This is primarily written from an observer, with its many voices of conversation, as snippets give us a particular slice of life, usually observed among public transportation and its riders.
You may notice a few Tarot Card references in his poems that gives the reader insight into Wolf’s world that brings an added degree of depth and measure to his work. TALKING TO THE SKY is not your average book of poems. It is life in all its reality and can be gritty at times but shows us the many different sides to the human spirit. If you expect to read with just love poems, you will find that this is not that at all.
So expect the unexpected and be pleasantly surprised. Keep an open mind and heart and travel along with this author on a journey through life. Experience with him just what he has been living with and through this last year. I challenge you to change your thinking and attitude with this book.
Bring on the adventure as you travel him and get Talking to the Sky yourself.
Rating: 5 Stars
Reviewed by Elaine Breault
Some Winter Heat
Need something to heat up a cold winters night?
Why not get your hands on a copy of Ad-dikc-tion? It’s on sale from the amazing folks at Breathless Press! Normally $5.99, you’ll get 14 tales of male obsession for $0.99! That’s a huge saving and a really big savings! And yes, the double entente is implied.
It contains the first two novels in my Hard Saga: Hard and Hardening. They were a surprise for me. I had submitted Hard to them as a potential free read. They came back and offered me something quite different.
They wanted Hard to be the lead title in their m/m romance line. It went on to become my first number one best selling novella. It went on to spawn five more books: Hardening, Harder, Hard Glory and Hardest. The series told the story of Owen and Daniel, two men who meet in their youth and it’s instant attraction. It takes them a while to get it right, however.
It’s a series of books that is actually one story, just told in five episodes. It’s a story of two men who’ve left true love behind, only to find it again in the most unlikely of circumstances. The novel’s also contain some of the hottest gay man on man love scenes I’ve written. It starts of tame at first, but by Hardest, you’re in for a hot time indeed!
What’s amazing is that in Ad-dic-tion is that it’s an anthology of 14 stories, you don’t just get hard, you get hot too! How awesome is that?
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If that doesn’t heat up your winter, I don’t know what will!
Petals on the Wind – A Poem
Dedicated to Heather for her help and wisdom with the flowers.
I clicked on the computer. It
powered on but it wasn’t my
home screen that appeared.
Instead it was a sea of flowers:
apple blossoms,
daisies,
dandelions,
chrysanthemums,
lavender
and orchids.
They glowed for
a moment, brightening
the screen. There was a
buzz of electricity,
a blue spark.
As I watched
the flowers began
to slide out
from under the glass.
A breeze came with them
and blew the flower petals
around my room. They
swirled around me,
and I stood in a
whirlwind of colour.
The petals slipped
out of an open window
and I ran after them,
leaving my apartment
and going out
into the light.
The petals were
were waiting for me.
As I approached them,
they began to
flow around me,
pulsing with light
and warmth. They
began to dance
away from me,
and flew to the sky,
forming a long, straight line,
with a point at the end,
a long plume of colour
on a canvass of
clear blue sky.
A few of them remained,
floating around me
like a wish in the air
after it has been spoken.
I followed the arrow
in the sky
to a meadow that
I had never seen before.
It was covered in flowers
of the same
jewel like hues.
Standing in the
middle of the
meadow was
you.
When I went
closer to
you,
and took your hand
in mine, the flower petals
moved and surged around
us, pulsing with
light, matched only
by the brightness
that shone from
inside of
you.
Bjork Over Beer – A Poem
She sat across from me,
the sparkles under her eyes
catching the light like
little stars that brightened
and faded as the light
shone on them
“When I saw you this summer at the Bjork concert, you were so different than how you used to be. You were soft spoken and mild mannered.”
I remembered.
I took a sip of beer,
it’s darkness in contrast
to the brightness I
held inside of me.
“I was a different person then. I was bogged down with everything, with how to handle it, with what my life had become.”
She looked at me
over the rim of her glass,
“What changed for you? I mean, now you’re who you were, you’re swearing, you have life in you again, you’ve got it going on and you’re back to your fabulous self.”
I thought about it
for a moment,
unsure how to articulate
what I wanted to say.
“I had two choices. I could wallow and give up, or I could live. I chose to live. I’m a different person now, but so much better for it.”
She clinked my glass,
the sound like bells
and I wondered if an angel
would get it’s wings.
“I’ll drink to that. It’s good to have you back.”
I smiled and drank,
the beer cool in my throat.
“It’s good to be back. I’m not going to go away again.”
I took another sip of beer
and thought about how
my life had changed.
I realised then that
the lightness inside of me
had a name. It was
happiness
and I promised myself
that I would always carry
it with me.
Another Turn on the Wheel – A Poem
Another year
wiser, stronger, confident.
Another spoke on the wheel
that turns and marks
our passage through time.
There is a light that shines
from inside of you,
brightening the life
of anyone that comes
into your sphere.
The world is more glorious
with you in it.
You are Goddess personified,
grace made real,
beauty given form.
You are a beacon of
wonderful glorious light
that shines freely,
brightening even
the darkest of days.
* For the wonderful Jackie, who is awesomeness itself.
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Jamieson Wolf has written a compelling story about navigating multiple sclerosis and cerebral palsy. His story will touch your heart, make you cry, then laugh, and inspire you. A touching memoir with a bit of magic…and tarot! ~ Theresa Reed, author of The Tarot Coloring Book
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