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A love letter to the chaos
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Publisher Price: $12.99
ISBN13: 9781066704705
Publisher: Oak Porch Press
Published: Jul 1 2026
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
I thought love was something added, layered over a life already built. I didn't know it was a demolition.
Written in the early morning half-light and in the margins of a demanding professional life, A Love Letter to the Chaos spans a decade of radical transformation. It tracks the evolution of a woman from a self-assured teenager at the altar to a mother-advocate navigating neurodivergence, hearing loss, and a global pandemic.
Balancing the sharp, pressed suits of corporate ambition with the milk-stained shirts of a home overflowing with three young boys, Stevie Ingram-Palmer beautifully captures the twin engines of a modern mother's heart. From the high-wire tightrope of working from home to the quiet, profound isolation of a lockdown labour (celebrated in her 21st Century Emily Dickinson Award-winning poetry suite, The Muffled Room), these poems expose the raw vulnerability of fighting for a child to be seen in a world that moves too fast.
Deeply moving and universally resonant, this collection is for every parent standing behind a closed home-office door, whispering five more minutes through the gap, while guarding the most precious world on the other side. It is a triumphant, beautiful celebration of family, stubborn love, and the ordinary days that matter most.
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