Colorado Book Awards Finalist for Poetry Shortlisted for the Reading the West Poetry Book Award The poems that make up Anodyne consider the small moments that enrapture us alongside the daily threats of cataclysm. Formally dynamic and searingly personal, Anodyne asks us to recognize the echoes of history that litter the landscape of our bodies as we navigate a complex terrain of survival and longing. With an intimate and multivocal dexterity, these poems acknowledge the simultaneous existence of joy and devastation, knowledge and ignorance, grief and love, endurance and failure—all of the contrast and serendipity that comes with the experience of being human. If the body is a world, or a metaphor for the world, for what disappears and what remains, for what we feel and what we cover up, then how do we balance fate and choice, pleasure and pain? Through a combination of formal lyrics, delicate experiments, sharp rants, musical litany, and moments of wit that uplift and unsettle, Queen’s poems show us the terrible consequences and stunning miracles of how we choose to live.

The third in the bestselling Richard Jury mystery series by Martha Grimes. A spinster whose passion was bird-watching, a dotty peer who pinched pennies, and a baffling murder made the tiny village of Littlebourne a most extraordinary place. And a severed finger made a ghastly clue in the killing that led local constables from a corpse to a boggy footpath to a beautiful lady’s mansion. But Richard Jury refused, preferring to take the less traveled route to a slightly disreputable pub, the Anodyne Necklace. There, drinks all around loosened enough tongues to link a London mugging with the Littlebourne murder and a treasure map that would chart the way to yet another chilling crime.

The word Anodyne means "anything that relieves distress or pain".Our Anthology "The Anodyne Quest" is an attempt made for the search of Anodyne through genuine Art and Literary pieces that can boost up your spirit! "Assurance for tranquillty in papers, is here in 'The Anodyne Quest' " -Dharsheni S.T.S

'Melody of Anodyne is a string of 25 pearls of poetry, with each poem being different from the other. Each poem penned with a different frame of mind, some to make you happy, some to force your mind to think. With the thought that one might find his voice in the words of someone unknown, the author gives through this book, 25 shades of her musings, to be interpreted by her readers.

Greetings all, I am the deity Anodyne, and this is my anthology. Many years ago I crafted the world Hollow, then I tethered it to Earth, allowing me to steal humans for my world. I did this over and over until I had enough to sustain a healthy population, eventually they started referring to themselves as Holites. Years went on, and my planet grew both in population and terror, as I filled it with nightmares from the minds of all my Holites. Harnessing the powers of chaos, I pulled their nightmares forth and laid them upon my world. Inside you will find my favorite stories that I have pulled from my world, stories of those who have the drive to survive.