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Rings Around The Roses

A lifetime can leave behind more than memories. Sometimes, it leaves verses.

Rings Around The Roses gathers Peter John Cormier’s prosetic poems, lyrical prosetry, and select sonnets into a collection shaped across decades. Personal without explaining everything, playful in one moment and piercing in the next, these pages invite readers into the places where memory, desire, faith, regret, humor, and reflection meet.

Genre

Poetry & Prosetry

Pages

204 Pages

Language

English

Release

June 5 2026

Publisher

Naribook

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Between Memory And The Written Word

Some memories disappear. Others keep asking to be written.

Across Rings Around The Roses, Peter draws from the people, places, relationships, questions, and turning points that accumulate over a lifetime. The result is not a conventional autobiography, nor does the collection follow the boundaries of traditional poetry. Instead, fragments of experience emerge through rhythm, imagery, confession, wit, and Peter’s unmistakable way with words.

The collection moves through different times and emotional landscapes without telling the reader exactly what to think or feel. Some pieces carry tenderness. Some confront regret. Others wander through romance, faith, humor, longing, and the restless search for meaning. What connects them is best discovered between the lines.

Inside The Collection

  • Decades captured in verse — Writing shaped across different seasons of Peter’s life.
  • An original prosetic approach — Where the freedom of prose meets the movement and imagery of poetry.
  • Memory without a map — People, places, encounters, and experiences surface in unexpected ways.
  • Emotion without polish — Love, longing, regret, humor, faith, and reflection are allowed to remain complicated.
  • Language with its own rhythm — Wordplay, metaphor, imagery, rhyme, and unconventional phrasing give the collection its character.
  • More beneath the words — Every piece offers enough to enter the moment while leaving something for the reader to discover.