Books of poetry and observation by G. White, published independently through Ink & Smoke Press.
Songs and Stories of a Life Still Being Lived
A collection of poetry.
The first book moves through grief, remembrance, friendship, family, love and the ordinary things that keep the dead with us.
Dispatches from this side of life
A collection of poetry.
A clear eyed look at the world, its contradictions, its rituals, its vanishing standards and the trouble that comes from paying attention.
Realizations and Reckonings
Accounts of a slow education from an ordinary man.
The third collection turns inward, considering duty, character, love, humility, persistence and the quiet dignity found in ordinary lives.
Ink & Smoke Press was born from a simple realization: sometimes the people deciding what deserves to be published are not the people who understand what deserves to be read.
After the deaths of several friends, G. White began writing. At first, there was no publishing plan. He simply gathered the pieces together, intending to preserve them for himself in a typed and printed binder.
Then he looked at them again.
He thought he might really have something.
A few friends read the work and were astounded. Their response gave him the confidence to share it with more people, and the positive response continued.
He eventually submitted some of his most intimate pieces to several literary contests. The responses, when they came at all, were largely impersonal. Standard rejection letters. No sense that anyone had really read the work.
Rather than continue asking permission from people who might never understand what he was trying to say, he decided to publish the work himself.
The first book became more than a book. Ink & Smoke Press was created.
Before the first book was even finished, the second was already taking shape. Then came the third. Now there is a fourth.
Sometimes you simply have to open your own door.
No permission required.
“This poetry is for everybody. But I especially want men to know they are welcome here.”
G. came to writing late, through grief, and found in it a way to keep company with memory.
He writes about love, loss, loneliness, regret, aging, mortality, memory, mistakes, and the things we carry without always knowing how to talk about them.
Poetry has always been a way for human beings to wrestle with life, tell their stories, preserve their history, and express things that are sometimes difficult to say out loud.
If a reader finds words for something they have been carrying, or simply finds comfort in knowing they are not alone, then the poetry has done what it was meant to do.
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Maple Sweetness • Dark Cherry • Warm Vanilla
Created specifically as a companion to The Old Black Cat and Other Ghosts, this limited release is meant to be enjoyed alongside its stories, memories and ghosts.
$5 for 2 oz with the corresponding book
$25 for 2 oz when purchased separately
Limited quantity. When it is gone, future availability has not been determined.
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Poetic Portraits of the Ordinary and Extraordinary
Seeking Wisdom in the World I See
Some things were written because they had nowhere else to go. Some were written because something happened that needed words. Others simply arrived, asking to be noticed.
Unfinished Sentences is the fourth book in the Witness collection and is currently in progress.
There is no firm publication date. The book will be finished when the work says it is finished.
Independent publishing from G. White.