everyday wonder book ideas

A Pocket Full of Other People's Rain

A cycle of poems follows a night bus driver who carries home the weather her passengers cannot name, then learns which storms belong to her.

The Republic of Unmatched Socks

A laundrette owner builds a playful sequence of poems from abandoned socks, using their mismatches to explore migration, love, grief and the right to remain odd.

Things I Told the Unlit Stove

A chef who has lost her sense of smell writes poems to an unlit stove while learning how memory, appetite and care survive an altered body.