COMING MAY 2025

Contains: 19 Poems

Author & Publisher: Shane McLeod

File formats: EPUB Ebook and Audiobook m4b format & Signed Paperback

Language: English

Publication Date: February 21, 2025

Author & Publisher: Shane McLeod

Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches / 152.4 x 228.6mm

About the Poetry Collection:

The Butcher’s Block is a deeply personal and reflective collection exploring familial relationships, life, and loss. Through the lens of his own upbringing, Shane confronts grief and the lasting impact of his father’s death, seeking to understand loss and its echoes in everyday life. Infused with existential reflection and influenced by Greek mythology, this collection blends memory, observation, and poetic introspection. With a voice that is both intimate and universal, Shane crafts a poignant meditation on love, absence, and the passage of time.

Poems:

The Currajung Hills   (The Arrival)  

The Currajung Hills   (The  Departure)

Song Lines

Of a Nostalgic Mind

Dandelions

Yuki  (For Clare Ryan)

Lemon Trees

Little Fish

The Butcher’s Block (For My Mother)

Melos

Hiroshima

Twilight

The Trojan

The Baths of Caracalla

The Killing Grounds

The Workbench

Brunswick Station

Flinders St Station

Medusa

Excerpt from The Butchers Blocks poem:

with the boning knife

the mallet and

the cleaver

she bent to task

smashing bones

carving flesh

tearing offal

and placing it all

in the meat grinder of her heart

Paperback: ISBN: 978-1-7638706-2-8

Ebook: ISBN: 978-1-7638706-4-2

Audiobook: ISBN: 978-1-7638706-3-5