Learning the Weather of Absence

By Michael Sturdy

Learning the Weather of Absence is a poetry collection of grief, estrangement, endurance, and moral attention. Moving from public disorder to inward solitude, familial distance, and elegy, the poems explore how loss becomes a condition through which consciousness must learn to live. Frost, flame, silence, ash, and thaw recur as shaping images, giving the volume a unified symbolic texture.

Rejecting easy consolation, these poems confront political spectacle, spiritual exhaustion, and paternal sorrow with gravity and formal control. Yet they also remain open to fragile continuance and partial repair. Formally varied but thematically cohesive, the collection offers a sustained lyric reckoning with history, love, and absence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GTWLT8LG
• ISBN13: 9798253155523
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"