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Over 1,400 poems by Allison Grayhurst have been published in more than 540 international literary journals, magazines and anthologies. They all can be read on this website.

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RECENT BOOKS

The Sparrow Wars, 2025

The Light Given, 2024

The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – Completed Works from 1988 to 2025 in eight volumes

The Sculptures of Allison Grayhurst, 2018

Long Poems

  • Sparrow Wars
  • My Mother’s Sky
  • Walkways – the poem
  • New Wheel – The Passage of Arnik
  • Sliding through the sewage tunnel gleam (poem in seven parts)
  • A Journey in Four Parts
  • The Journey Continued in Four Parts
  • The Letting Go (a five-part poem)
  • Dad (a eulogy)
  • As My Blindness Burns
  • Illusions Burned, Radiant Light Restored

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  • About
  • All Books by Allison Grayhurst
  • Buy PDF downloads of books
  • CV
  • Buy books on Amazon
  • Publications
  • Samples of Allison Grayhurst’s poetry
  • Quotes and Reviews
  • Photo Poems
  • Snapshots (excerpts of poems on images)
  • The Sculptures of Allison Grayhurst
  • YouTube and Soundcloud
  • Books available for sale (chapbook, paperback and Kindle)
  • Translation of Poems
  • Interviews
  • Anthologies/Journals Available on Amazon, Goodreads, Lulu, Etsy (contributor)
  • The League of Canadian Poets, Poets&Writers, and name references
  • Published Poems and their Links
  • Links to Poems by Title
  • YouTube poems – by Allison Grayhurst
  • Awards/Nominations
  • The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – Completed Works from 1988 to 2025 in Eight Volumes
  • “River – Songs from the poetry of Allison Grayhurst” CD by Diane Barbarash
  • Author Representative on Poets and Writers and New Page, and Mention in Interviews
  • Comments on Allison Grayhurst poetry worth noting
  • Featured Poet of an Issue
  • Images
  • Kyp Harness

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Books

  • Book 1: Journey of the Awakening, 1997, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 2: The Longing to Be, 1998, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 3: Death and Other Possibilities, 2000, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 4: Outliving the Inevitable, 2002, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 5: Into My Mortal, 2004, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 6: Red thread – Black thread, 2006, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 7: The Many Lights of Eden, 2008, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 8: Pushing Through The Jelly Fire, 2010, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 9: The River is Blind, 2012, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 10: Seamless – A Collection of Love Poems, 2012, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 11: If I Get There – Poems of Faith and Doubt, a collection, 2012, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 12: Wallpaper Stars, 2013, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 13: For Every Rain – a collection of early poems, 2013, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 14: Jumana and Perfect Love – two poetic prose pieces, 2013, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 15: Walkways, 2014, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 16: As My Blindness Burns – three long poems, 2014, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 17: Our Children Are Orchards – collected poems about animals, children and pregnancy, 2015, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 18: Fire and more, 2016, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 19: Currents – pastlife poems, 2016, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 20: The Fault of Sages, 2017, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 21: Sight at Zero – selected poems (1988 to 2017), 2017, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 22: The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – completed works from 1988 to 2017 (Volume 1 of 5), 2017, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 23: The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – completed works from 1988 to 2017 (Volume 2 of 5), 2017, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 24: The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – completed works from 1988 to 2017 (Volume 3 of 5), 2017, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 25: The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – completed works from 1988 to 2017 (Volume 4 of 5), 2017, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 26: The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – completed works from 1988 to 2017 (Volume 5 of 5), 2017, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 27: The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – Collections from 1988 to 2017 (Volume 6), 2017, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 28: The Sculptures of Allison Grayhurst, 2018, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 29: Animal Culture (rules of commitment), 2018, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 30: If I Knew This Haunting, 2019, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 31: Snapshots (excerpts of poems on images), 2019, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 32: Ways of Mercy, 2021, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 33: The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – completed works from 2018 to 2021 (Volume 7), 2021, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 34: A Wish Alone, 2022, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 35: Comments on the poetry of Allison Grayhurst (from 2011 to 2023)
  • Book 36: The Light Given, 2024, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 37: My Mother’s Sky, 2024, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 38: Walkways – the poem, 2024, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 39: New Wheel – five long poems, 2024, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 40: The Sparrow Wars, 2025, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 41: The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – completed works from 2022 to 2025 (Volume 8), 2025, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 42: Every Tree That Burns – a collection of poems about loss, grief and renewal
  • Running, lightwave riding, 2023, Cyberwit
  • Tadpoles Find the Sun, 2020, Cyberwit
  • Trial and Witness – selected poems, 2016, Creative Talents Unleashed (CTU Publishing Group)
  • Make the Wind, 2016, Scars Publications
  • No Raft – No Ocean, 2015, Scars Publications
  • Surrogate Dharma, 2014, Kind of a Hurricane Press
  • Somewhere Falling, 1995, Beach Holme Publishers, a Porcepic Book
  • Common Dream, 1991, Edge Unlimited
  • The River is Blind, 2012, above/ground press
  • Before the Dawn, 1989, The Plowman (published under the pseudonym of Jocelyn Kain)
  • Joshua’s Shoulder, 1989, The Plowman (published under the pseudonym of Jocelyn Kain)
  • Jumana, 1989, The Plowman (published under the pseudonym of Jocelyn Kain)
  • Perfect Love, 1989, The Plowman (published under the pseudonym of Jocelyn Kain)

River – Songs from the poetry of Allison Grayhurst, 2017

Images of sculptures by Allison Grayhurst

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Categories

  • A Few Recent Reviews (10)
  • A Recent Interview (9)
  • A Video – "Motions In Poetry" TV Show (1995) – Reading and Interview (1)
  • Awards and Nominations (4)
  • Books for sale (10)
  • Buy PDF download for books (7)
  • Documentary (1)
  • Excerpts from poems (219)
  • Film Director Ava Harness (1)
  • Interview (8)
  • Links to poems by title (1)
  • Membership to The League of Canadian Poets (1)
  • Name "Allison Grayhurst" used as example for baby names in book and website (1)
  • photo poems (209)
  • Poems Published (1,607)
  • Published Books For Sale (41)
  • Readings (3)
  • Reviews (1)
  • Sculpture images published (25)
  • Sculptures (24)
  • Selections From Books (1,856)
    • Excerpt from Book 34 "A Wish Alone" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2022) (55)
    • Excerpts from Book "Make the Wind" Scars Publications (2016) (37)
    • Excerpts from Book "No Raft – No Ocean" Scars Publications (2015) (27)
    • Excerpts from Book "Running, lightwave riding" Cyberwit (2023) (29)
    • Excerpts from Book "Tadpoles Find the Sun" Cyberwit (2020) (72)
    • Excerpts from Book "Trial and Witness – selected poems" Creative Talents Unleashed (CTU Publishing Group) (2016) (90)
    • Excerpts from Book 1 "Journey of the Awakening" Edge Unlimited Publishing (1997) (85)
    • Excerpts from Book 10 "Seamless – A Collection of Love Poems" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2012) (90)
    • Excerpts from Book 11 "If I Get There – Poems of Faith and Doubt, a collection" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2012) (101)
    • Excerpts from Book 12 "Wallpaper Stars" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2013) (63)
    • Excerpts from Book 13 "For Every Rain – a collection of early poems" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2013) (84)
    • Excerpts from Book 14 "Jumana and Perfect Love – two poetic prose pieces" Edge Unlimited Publishing (1989) (2)
    • Excerpts from Book 15 "Walkways" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2014) (80)
    • Excerpts from Book 16 "As My Blindness Burns – three long poems" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2014) (20)
    • Excerpts from Book 17 "Our Children Are Orchards – collected poems about animals, children and pregnancy" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2015) (73)
    • Excerpts from Book 18 "Fire and more," Edge Unlimited Publishing (2016) (71)
    • Excerpts from Book 19 "Currents – pastlife poems" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2016) (78)
    • Excerpts from Book 2 "The Longing To Be" Edge Unlimited Publishing (1998) (101)
    • Excerpts from Book 20 "The Fault of Sages" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2017) (43)
    • Excerpts from Book 21 "Sight at Zero- selected poems (1988 to 2017)" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2017) (262)
    • Excerpts from Book 22 "The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – completed works from 1988 to 2017 (Volume 1 of 5)" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2017) (274)
    • Excerpts from Book 23 "The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – completed works from 1988 to 2017 (Volume 2 of 5)" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2017) (301)
    • Excerpts from Book 24 "The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – completed works from 1988 to 2017 (Volume 3 of 5)" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2017) (302)
    • Excerpts from Book 25 "The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – completed works from 1988 to 2017 (Volume 4 of 5)" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2017) (83)
    • Excerpts from Book 26 "The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – completed works from 1988 to 2017 (Volume 5 of 5)" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2017) (169)
    • Excerpts from Book 27 "The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – Collections from 1988 to 2017 (Volume 6)" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2017) (325)
    • Excerpts from Book 28 "The Sculptures of Allison Grayhurst" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2018) (25)
    • Excerpts from Book 29 "Animal Culture (rules of commitment)" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2018) (86)
    • Excerpts from Book 3 "Death and Other Possibilities" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2000) (94)
    • Excerpts from Book 30 "If I Knew This Haunting" Edge Unlimited (2019) (45)
    • Excerpts from Book 31 "Snapshots (excerpts of poems on images)" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2019) (155)
    • Excerpts from Book 32 "Ways of Mercy" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2021) (77)
    • Excerpts from Book 33 “The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – completed works from 2018 to 2021 (Volume 7)” Edge Unlimited Publishing (2021) (200)
    • Excerpts from Book 36 "The Light Given" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2024) (77)
    • Excerpts from Book 4 "Outliving the Inevitable" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2002) (101)
    • Excerpts from Book 40 "The Sparrow Wars" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2025) (23)
    • Excerpts from Book 41 "The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – completed works from 2022 to 2025 (Volume 8)" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2025) (23)
    • Excerpts from Book 5 "Into My Mortal" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2004) (121)
    • Excerpts from Book 6 "Red thread – Black thread" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2006) (107)
    • Excerpts from Book 7 "The Many Lights of Eden" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2008) (122)
    • Excerpts from Book 8 "Pushing Through the Jelly Fire" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2010) (117)
    • Excerpts from Book 9 "The River is Blind" Edge Unlimited Publishing (2012) (100)
    • Excerpts from chapbook "Surrogate Dharma" – Kind of a Hurricane Press (2014) (23)
    • Excerpts from chapbook "The River is Blind" above/ground press (2012) (14)
    • Excerpts from poetry book "Common Dream" Edge Unlimited Publishing (1991) (52)
    • Excerpts from poetry book "Somewhere Falling" Beach Holme Publishers – A Porcepic Book (1995) (73)
    • Excerpts from poetry chapbook "Before the Dawn" The Plowman (1989) (5)
    • Excerpts from poetry chapbook "Joshua's Shoulder" The Plowman (1989) (12)
    • Poetic-prose chapbook "Jumana" The Plowman (1989) (2)
    • Poetic-prose chapbook "Perfect Love" The Plowman (1989) (2)
  • Singer/songwriter (21)
  • Songs from Allison Grayhurst's poems (8)
  • Songwriter/singer Kyp Harness (20)
  • Soundcloud (6)
  • Store (2)
  • Translation of poems (5)
  • Uncategorized (1)
  • Walkways – the poem (35)
  • YouTube videos (212)

Pages

  • “River – Songs from the poetry of Allison Grayhurst” CD by Diane Barbarash
  • A Journey in Four Parts
  • About
  • All Books by Allison Grayhurst
  • Anthologies/Journals Available on Amazon, Goodreads, Lulu, Etsy (contributor)
  • As My Blindness Burns
  • Author Representative on Poets and Writers and New Page, and Mention in Interviews
  • Awards/Nominations
  • Before the Dawn, 1989, The Plowman (published under the pseudonym of Jocelyn Kain)
  • Book 10: Seamless – A Collection of Love Poems, 2012, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 11: If I Get There – Poems of Faith and Doubt, a collection, 2012, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 12: Wallpaper Stars, 2013, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 13: For Every Rain – a collection of early poems, 2013, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 14: Jumana and Perfect Love – two poetic prose pieces, 2013, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 15: Walkways, 2014, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 16: As My Blindness Burns – three long poems, 2014, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 17: Our Children Are Orchards – collected poems about animals, children and pregnancy, 2015, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 18: Fire and more, 2016, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 19: Currents – pastlife poems, 2016, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 1: Journey of the Awakening, 1997, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 20: The Fault of Sages, 2017, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 21: Sight at Zero – selected poems (1988 to 2017), 2017, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 22: The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – completed works from 1988 to 2017 (Volume 1 of 5), 2017, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 23: The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – completed works from 1988 to 2017 (Volume 2 of 5), 2017, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 24: The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – completed works from 1988 to 2017 (Volume 3 of 5), 2017, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 25: The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – completed works from 1988 to 2017 (Volume 4 of 5), 2017, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 26: The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – completed works from 1988 to 2017 (Volume 5 of 5), 2017, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 27: The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – Collections from 1988 to 2017 (Volume 6), 2017, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 28: The Sculptures of Allison Grayhurst, 2018, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 29: Animal Culture (rules of commitment), 2018, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 2: The Longing to Be, 1998, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 30: If I Knew This Haunting, 2019, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 31: Snapshots (excerpts of poems on images), 2019, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 32: Ways of Mercy, 2021, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 33: The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – completed works from 2018 to 2021 (Volume 7), 2021, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 34: A Wish Alone, 2022, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 35: Comments on the poetry of Allison Grayhurst (from 2011 to 2023)
  • Book 36: The Light Given, 2024, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 37: My Mother’s Sky, 2024, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 38: Walkways – the poem, 2024, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 39: New Wheel – five long poems, 2024, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 3: Death and Other Possibilities, 2000, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 40: The Sparrow Wars, 2025, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 41: The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – completed works from 2022 to 2025 (Volume 8), 2025, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 42: Every Tree That Burns – a collection of poems about loss, grief and renewal
  • Book 4: Outliving the Inevitable, 2002, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 5: Into My Mortal, 2004, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 6: Red thread – Black thread, 2006, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 7: The Many Lights of Eden, 2008, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 8: Pushing Through The Jelly Fire, 2010, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Book 9: The River is Blind, 2012, Edge Unlimited Publishing
  • Books available for sale (chapbook, paperback and Kindle)
  • Buy books on Amazon
  • Buy PDF downloads of books
  • Cart
  • Checkout
  • Comments on Allison Grayhurst poetry worth noting
  • Common Dream, 1991, Edge Unlimited
  • CV
  • Dad (a eulogy)
  • Featured Poet of an Issue
  • Illusions Burned, Radiant Light Restored
  • Images
  • Interviews
  • Joshua’s Shoulder, 1989, The Plowman (published under the pseudonym of Jocelyn Kain)
  • Jumana, 1989, The Plowman (published under the pseudonym of Jocelyn Kain)
  • Kyp Harness
  • Links to Poems by Title
  • Make the Wind, 2016, Scars Publications
  • My Mother’s Sky
  • New Wheel – The Passage of Arnik
  • No Raft – No Ocean, 2015, Scars Publications
  • Perfect Love, 1989, The Plowman (published under the pseudonym of Jocelyn Kain)
  • Photo Poems
  • Publications
  • Published Poems and their Links
  • Quotes and Reviews
  • Running, lightwave riding, 2023, Cyberwit
  • Samples of Allison Grayhurst’s poetry
  • Sliding through the sewage tunnel gleam (poem in seven parts)
  • Snapshots (excerpts of poems on images)
  • Somewhere Falling, 1995, Beach Holme Publishers, a Porcepic Book
  • Sparrow Wars
  • Surrogate Dharma, 2014, Kind of a Hurricane Press
  • Tadpoles Find the Sun, 2020, Cyberwit
  • The Journey Continued in Four Parts
  • The League of Canadian Poets, Poets&Writers, and name references
  • The Letting Go (a five-part poem)
  • The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – Completed Works from 1988 to 2025 in Eight Volumes
  • The River is Blind, 2012, above/ground press
  • The Sculptures of Allison Grayhurst
  • Translation of Poems
  • Trial and Witness – selected poems, 2016, Creative Talents Unleashed (CTU Publishing Group)
  • Walkways – the poem
  • YouTube and Soundcloud
  • YouTube poems – by Allison Grayhurst
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