Winter

Letters to Lilith . . . for the Flowering Month of May

Between Bear Mountain and Jerusalem, between rain-soaked cedars and olive branches silvering before a storm, two women begin a correspondence that becomes far more than letters alone. Writing by candlelight from the Fraser Valley and from stone courtyards beneath desert skies, Emily and Lilith explore poetry, prophecy, rootedness, and what it means to remain fully human in a fragmented world. Beneath every page runs the low, continuous...

Little Leather-Bound Elegies is a quiet, year-long gathering of poems that move with the seasons—elegies written for what is hidden, waiting, and becoming. Returning again and again to winter fields, thawing ground, seeds in dark soil, and hands passing warmth across generations, the work dwells where grief and renewal meet as daily reality rather than spectacle. Each poem is accompanied by reflections, summaries, and lexicons that trace its symbolic and theological threads, inviting readers...

Ballad of the Winter Sea is a lyrical meditation on longing, loss, and the sacred meeting place between the natural and spiritual worlds. Set to the solemn movements of Mozart’s Requiem, the poem unfolds in a mythic coastal landscape where the sea becomes a living threshold between life and eternity. From Old Brittany onward, the poem evokes a timeless maritime world shaped by memory, storm, and haunting beauty. At its centre stands Sophia, the sea personified—a figure of grief, mystery, and...

“The writing has a very controlled, almost old-fashioned elegance to it. . . the coastal imagery gives the middle of the book a distinct feeling that I enjoyed.”

—Nell Yamada,...

"Welcome to my scattered anthem. My name is Emily Isaacson, and I am a poet who lives by candlelight—both literally and inwardly. I write from a life shaped by devotion rather...

“There’s a constant motion between the personal and the mythical. Her words rise like tides, returning again and again to resilience, devotion, and the endurance of beauty in...