Little Leather-Bound Elegies

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Welcome to Little Leather-Bound Elegies

This is a quiet place for poems that move with the seasons—elegies written not only to explore the nuances of death, but for what is hidden, waiting, and becoming. Here, winter fields, spring thaw, summer breath, and autumnal light return again and again as metaphors for grief, endurance, and renewal. These elegies are not bound to a single moment of loss; they unfold across the year, honouring the long work of remembering and the slow patience of hope. The poems gathered here speak into the ancient space where death and resurrection meet—not as spectacle, but as daily reality. You will find fields that rest beneath frost, seeds entrusted to dark soil, hands passing warmth from one generation to the next. Alongside each poem, I share reflections, summaries, and lexicons that trace the symbolic and theological threads woven through the work, offering readers a way to linger, listen, and read attentively. This blog grows in conversation with the multimedia poems released on my YouTube channel, extending the life of each elegy beyond the page and into sound, image, and season. I am a poet who writes slowly, with devotion to craft, faith, and the ordinary labour of language. My work has long been shaped by elegy—not as an end, but as a form of witness: to grief, to beauty, and to the quiet persistence of life. Little Leather-Bound Elegies is an offering made across the year, for readers who understand that sorrow is not erased by time, but carried, tended, and—sometimes—transfigured. You are welcome to return in any season.

About the Author

Poet Emily Isaacson is a sacred poet whose work dwells in the quiet spaces where grief, devotion, and beauty meet. Writing in the long tradition of elegy, her poems attend to seasons, thresholds, and the slow labour of resurrection, favouring attentiveness over spectacle and reverence over haste. She is the author of over twenty independently published books across poetry and prose, released through her own imprints, and her work has reached a wide and faithful readership, with more than 2.5 million visits to her literary and creative sites. Rooted in craft, faith, and the ordinary holiness of language, Isaacson’s poetry offers a listening presence in a world that too often moves too quickly to hear.

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