All These Ghosts
Poems
Silas House
Available 9/9/25
Poems
Silas House
Available 9/9/25
Poems
Silas House
Available 9/9/25
A timely and poignant poetry collection by acclaimed author and Poet Laureate of Kentucky Silas House, including the poem read at Governor Andy Beshear’s 2023 inauguration.
Silas House is known throughout the Southeast as a quintessential person of letters—a novelist, a music journalist, environmental activist, and columnist—and now Poet Laureate of Kentucky. His first full-length collection of poetry blends his Appalachian upbringing and ongoing relation to the natural world with his keen observation of his surrounding culture. Returning to his touchstone subjects, Silas recalls wild places, echoes stories from a lingering and living past, and explores an abiding connection to family, friends, and fellow artists.
Silas House is the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels Clay's Quilt [2001], A Parchment of Leaves [2003], The Coal Tattoo [2005], Eli the Good [2009], Same Sun Here [2012], including his most recent, Lark Ascending, which was a Booklist Editors' Choice and is the winner of the 2023 Southern Book Prize and the 2023 Nautilus Book Award. Four of his plays have been produced. He is also the author of the 2009 book of creative nonfiction Something's Rising (with coauthor Jason Kyle Howard). In 2022 he was the recipient of the Duggins Prize, the largest award for an LGBTQ+ writer in the nation. The same year he was named Appalachian of the Year in a nationwide poll. In 2023 he was inducted as the Poet Laureate of Kentucky for 2023-2025 and became a Grammy finalist.
