Creek Water: New & Selected Poems by Edward Harkness
Available September 12, 2025. Preorder now.
Creek Water: New & Selected Poems spans five decades of Ed Harkness’s work, a body of poetry united by his ever-attentive eye, inquisitive mind, and compassionate heart. These narrative poems quietly and evocatively explore parallels between the personal and the historic, setting ordinary details of daily life alongside world events ranging from the Civil War to the hanging of poet Benjamin Moloise in Pretoria. Whether writing about the joys of a long marriage, fatherhood, or the challenge of facing his own mortality, Harkness reminds us that history and our lives are made of moments that when witnessed deeply and generously can transform. Shimmering like the stones in the creek water he praises, these poems look to the past while speaking to our current times, to “the world breaking your heart and somehow mending it.”
Available September 12, 2025. Preorder now.
Creek Water: New & Selected Poems spans five decades of Ed Harkness’s work, a body of poetry united by his ever-attentive eye, inquisitive mind, and compassionate heart. These narrative poems quietly and evocatively explore parallels between the personal and the historic, setting ordinary details of daily life alongside world events ranging from the Civil War to the hanging of poet Benjamin Moloise in Pretoria. Whether writing about the joys of a long marriage, fatherhood, or the challenge of facing his own mortality, Harkness reminds us that history and our lives are made of moments that when witnessed deeply and generously can transform. Shimmering like the stones in the creek water he praises, these poems look to the past while speaking to our current times, to “the world breaking your heart and somehow mending it.”
Available September 12, 2025. Preorder now.
Creek Water: New & Selected Poems spans five decades of Ed Harkness’s work, a body of poetry united by his ever-attentive eye, inquisitive mind, and compassionate heart. These narrative poems quietly and evocatively explore parallels between the personal and the historic, setting ordinary details of daily life alongside world events ranging from the Civil War to the hanging of poet Benjamin Moloise in Pretoria. Whether writing about the joys of a long marriage, fatherhood, or the challenge of facing his own mortality, Harkness reminds us that history and our lives are made of moments that when witnessed deeply and generously can transform. Shimmering like the stones in the creek water he praises, these poems look to the past while speaking to our current times, to “the world breaking your heart and somehow mending it.”