In Mast Year, poet Katherine Hagopian Berry takes us on a journey through her own mast year, a year of creative abundance.

Her poems revel in lush language, offering a feast of stories, images, insights, and revelations great and small.

Mast Year is the second volume in Littoral Books’ Contemporary Maine Poetry Series.

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Littoral Books is an independent literary press based in Portland, Maine, dedicated to publishing books by writers and artists from Maine and New England. Originally founded in 1975 by members of the Portland Women’s Group in order to publish the work of women writers, we were one of the founding presses of the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. Littoral Books is proud to be a Maine press, and to play an active role in Maine’s literary community.

In Maine, people are either "from here," born and raised, or "from away." In LandTrust, Katherine Hagopian Berry explores what it means to learn the language of a place. Spiraling out from poems of displacement, alienation, loss and futility, LandTrust concludes with poems of connection, kinship and belonging.

These are poems that strive to listen deeply to land: the land you find yourself loving, the land you find yourself on.

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NatureCulture® LLC is a small woman-owned business in Massachusetts. They publish the Land Trust and other books of poetry that help connect humans with the rest of Nature.

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Traveling between the woods and broken mills of Western Maine and astrological, astronomical, and future spaces, Orbit is a collection of poems angling toward themes of loss and arching back to resolution.

Begun during the March 2020 Covid lockdown, Orbit is a search for meaning in stillness, and the growth that becomes possible when our usual movements are interrupted, disrupted, and changed.

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We launched Toad Hall Editions because we want to publish potent and thought-provoking work, and because we are committed to creating and deepening community. For us, this means dedicating more space to voices and stories that for too long have lived in the margins. Our collaborative publishing model means a greater sense of transparency and accountability to our authors and supporters, as well as thoughtfully sourced partners in printing and distribution of our books and literary magazines.

What is love anyway but the putting of your hand in mine, the never letting go?

Fireflies and ravens, woodfrogs and eels, mothers and children, ancestors and inheritors, Arizona and Maine, Handfast celebrates the infinite richness of communion.

Poems face each other across the page: one a little more sinister, one a little more dexterous, celebrating all the different ways we can cherish both each other and our.

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NatureCulture® LLC is a small woman-owned business in Massachusetts. They publish the Land Trust and other books of poetry that help connect humans with the rest of Nature.

To order directly from us, click the Purchase button below or order from Bookshop.org by clicking Bookshop.