Halberd Books Vol. 2

In 2023, David M. Briggs collected five years' worth of poetry chapbooks into one full-length collection, the first volume of Halberd Books. Now, just under a year later, five new chapbooks are collected in Halberd Books volume 2. Archive features four short fiction pieces and a poem about the ways that we love and the stories that shape us. Echolalia travels through twenty poems about stress and sadness and surviving through it all. Unserious is a twenty-four poem statement about believing in beauty and finding the fun in life. Miscreants is a short little twelve-poem meditation on the joys and frustrations of cat ownership. Reflections finishes out the volume with twenty poems about love and love poems (which are not the same thing). Over the course of seventy-eight poems and four stories, Halberd Books vol. 2 changes the way the author talks about life, about love, and about what it takes to get through each year.