Poetry
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POETRY READING - APRIL 2025
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Published Work Books Seed to Bone, poems, a full length collection published by Vermilion Books (available in April 2025) Still Life, Requiem and an Egg, a poetry chapbook.by Prolific Press Turnings, a poetry chapbook, was published by Pudding House Publications Anthologies Unbearable Uncertainty and Alchemy and Miracles Anthology. Literary Journals Calyx, Salamander, the Denver Quarterly, The Worchester Review, The Louisville Review, Birmingham Arts Journal, American Writers Review, Karamu, and The Comstock Review, among many other journals In 2014, a poem was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. |
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About the Books
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Seed to Bone
A full length collection of poetry - $15. These contemplative poems reflect on a life in its final decades. Metaphysical questions are interwoven with the natural world; rivers branch like veins of a body, scars glint like fish bones. The poems address the mystery we are a part of, deepening the encounter. The poem River Rushes explains, “I write to listen, to feel its power in my bones, to feel what I cannot know.” Available for purchase (May 2025) at local bookstores, Amazon and Barnes and Noble Available now from IngramSpark below: 
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Beautiful and haunting in its sincerity, Seed to Bone moves with a seasoned hand, revealing the quiet magic behind artist Marian Willmott’s life. Each line rings with a confessional truth: themes of love, nature, time, reticence and loss are refracted into tiny talismans we can hold and admire, as though given a rare glimpse at the extraordinary treasures tucked away in one poet’s drawer. Deeply moving…
Tyler Enfield. author of Like Rum-Drunk Angels: Winner of the 2021 Spur Award and the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Prize; Madder Carmine: Winner of the 2016 High Plains Book Award |
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Praise for Still Life, Requiem and an Egg:
"The poems in this collection are as honest and personal as they are contemplative and profound. How might a man begin to understand what it is to be a woman. How might anyone experience what it is to be this human, to endure her challenges and share her joys. In the opening “River” series, the poet invites readers to abide with her, beside and within the river that is at once her history, her own body, and a body of water in revealing intimacy. And in Part 2 poems of love and compassion for the woes of others. These are the keen observations of an accomplished painter, drawn with elegant imagery, restraint, and deft turns of phrase. Grief is a part, and also patience with the life and the writing. I look forward to more poems by Marian Willmott." ~Daniel Lusk, author of The Shower Scene from Hamlet, The Vermeer Suite, and other books "In this lovely chapbook, Marian Wilmott weaves a place in her world with stories of family, tending, and reclamation. Like the movement in the rivers that make up the first section, the poems here have an undercurrent of clarity and elements of surprise. Connections to earth layer through the later poems. Here the natural world anchors extraordinary images as the poet lives the ordinary, intermingling the erotic with the everyday. These are certainly poems to be savored slowly." ~Patricia Fontaine, author of Lifting My Shirt and editor of Healing Art & Writing: Using Creativity to Meet Illness |
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Oil on board 12" x 12"
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Marian Willmott ~ [email protected] ~ 802-482-3131 ~ www.willmottstudios.com
