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Lays From The West

Lays From The West

Nicholl, M. A.

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General Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.99

ISBN10: 9376800591
ISBN13: 9789376800599
Publisher: Double 9 Books
Published: Jan 1 2026
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Lays from the west presents a reflective collection of poems shaped by emotional intensity and lyrical restraint. The verses dwell on memory, longing, and attachment to place, using landscape and personal reflection to explore enduring bonds between identity and homeland. Nature appears not as scenery alone but as an emotional anchor, carrying echoes of love, separation, and quiet endurance. Feelings of loss and remembrance flow through the collection, suggesting how time alters experience without erasing its imprint. The poems balance intimacy with universality, transforming private emotion into shared reflection. Recurrent meditations on distance and belonging emphasize the tension between presence and absence, while restrained language allows sentiment to emerge without excess. Through rhythmic expression and contemplative imagery, the work traces the persistence of emotional ties across change and uncertainty. The collection ultimately frames poetry as a vessel for preservation, where memory, place, and feeling converge to resist silence and forgetting.

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