Night Rains

The new collection of poetry from Stephen Brooke, NIGHT RAINS, will be officially released on April 21, 2026. This is both the writer's birthday and appropriate to 'National Poetry Month.' We have attempted to release collections on this date the past couple years. Here's the official blurb:

To linger in forbidden gardens,
  dream beneath the black rose tree,
to play the tunes for fairy dances
  through all night’s eternity,
I seek those distant ebon towers,
  stark beside a shadowed sea
where misted perfumes of the darkness
  rise in writhing ecstasy.

Visit lands both real and imagined — though who is to say which is which? —  in Stephen Brooke’s collection of poems, NIGHT RAINS.

And here is the cover:

The book will be available from Arachis Press (arachispress.com) in print or as free ebooks.

Counting Words Release

Today, October 25 2024, marks the release of a new collection of poems from Stephen Brooke, "Counting Words." The book is  available from Arachis Press (arachispress.com) in print or as free ebooks (PDF and EPUB). Stop by and get your copy!

Shallow Poet Release

My new poetry collection, SHALLOW POET, is now available at the Arachis Press store: https://www.lulu.com/shop/stephen-brooke/shallow-poet/paperback/product-95qk475.html

The book is also available as a free download in PDF and EPUB formats from arachispress.com , as are all my books.

Shallow Poet Reviews

My new poetry collection, SHALLOW POET, is now up at the Good Reads site, with some pre-release reviews. Its page is here. We are only a little over a couple weeks now to the official release on April 21. I'll put up links to the print and free ebook editions before then.

I have been doing small-scale revisions on some of the already published work. No matter how many times they go through proof reading, some new mistake is almost always discovered. None of it is at all high priority but I and Arachis Press will roll out some new editions from time to time.

I do wish I could say I had something new in the pipeline for release but nothing is quite ready  for such an announcement right now. Soon, we hope!

Shallow Poet Proof

I have a proof copy of the print edition of 'Shallow Poet' in my hands, and have approved it. All is ahead of schedule for it official release on April 21. Now to get all the details of its release worked out, listing it here and there, getting the free ebooks up at Arachis Press, and so on.

Yes, the ebooks (EPUB and PDF) will be free, as with all my other books. Print will be for sale 'everywhere' as we are going for full distribution, with ISBN. To be honest, these poetry books end up overpriced with distribution and we are giving thought to selling them direct only. This is not so much of a problem with the thicker novels and such, though it still means tacking on several dollars more.

Here is the author himself with his copy of 'Shallow Poet.'