April Branch Out Book Club: National Poetry Month! at Titcomb’s Bookshop – Sandwich, MA

Join the Branch Out Book Club on Tuesday, April 28th at 6:30pm on the upper floor of Titcomb’s Bookshop to discuss 44 Poems on Being with Each Other, an anthology by Poetry Unbound host Pádraig Ó Tuama. Free RSVP is requested and can be completed on this page or by calling Titcomb’s Bookshop at 508-888-2331.

Don’t worry if you don’t finish reading the entire book – you can still contribute to a great discussion after reading a smaller selection of the poems!

ABOUT THE BRANCH OUT BOOK CLUB

Titcomb’s Bookshop’s Branch Out Book Club, hosted by Katie (Marketing & Communications Specialist) and Caleb (Antiquarian/Used Books Specialist), invites people to read books that may be outside of their typical reading comfort zone. From offbeat literary fiction to horror or sci-fi, we aim to expand our minds by expanding our reading choices. Each month, we will mix up the genre or theme and offer a welcoming environment for our community to read together and share thoughts and reflections.

ABOUT THE BOOK

44 Poems on Being with Each Other is a new volume that offers immersive reflections on the human connection. With an observant eye, Pádraig Ó Tuama shares an enlightening meditation on each poem, revealing the ways we relate to each other, the world around us, and ourselves.

Among the selections, Ó Tuama examines friendship and its loss through Langston Hughes’s “I Loved My Friend,” changing familial bonds in Rita Dove’s “Eurydice, Turning,” the relationship with the past in Mary Oliver’s “The Uses of Sorrow,” the power of declaration in Lucille Clifton’s “Won’t You Celebrate with Me,” and the necessity of connection to land in Joy Harjo’s “Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings.”

Blending humor with insight, tension with tenderness, complexity with care, 44 Poems on Being with Each Other articulates the power of poetry itself. Through careful and incisive readings, it illuminates aspects of the human condition, particularly the ways we are inextricably linked to each other, and provides inspiration for grounded self-reflection. It is an anthology that will delight readers, just as Pádraig’s podcast has done for millions around the world.