The Weight of What Remains is a powerful and deeply human poetry collection tracing one man’s journey through war, memory, exile, and renewal.
From the dust of distant battlefields to the hush of the sea at dusk, these poems move across continents and decades — from youth and military service to love, loss, healing, and the quiet strength of endurance.
Written with clarity and emotional honesty, this collection explores:
• War and its lasting echoes
• Veteran experience and unseen battles
• PTSD, survival, and brotherhood
• Migration, identity, and belonging
• Nature, sea, and the wisdom of the earth
• Grief, memory, and lifelong love
These poems do not glorify conflict. They bear witness to it — and to what survives after.
Through images of deserts, oceans, stone walls, factories, fields, and moonlit waters, the voice that emerges is reflective, grounded, and unafraid to hold both sorrow and beauty in the same breath.
For readers of contemporary poetry, war poetry, memoir in verse, and deeply reflective writing, The Weight of What Remains offers a journey from fracture to resilience — from silence to peace.
This is a book about what endures.
And what remains.
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Bert Peskens is a poet whose work reflects on war, memory, displacement, and the enduring search for peace. Born in South Africa and later settling in Ireland, his writing draws on personal experience, landscapes, and the emotional weight carried long after conflict ends. The Weight of What Remains is a deeply reflective collection exploring loss, resilience, and renewal.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. The Weight of What Remains is a powerful contemporary war poetry collection exploring the enduring echoes of conflict, memory, loss, and renewal. Written with clarity and emotional depth, these poems trace a journey through the aftermath of war, reflecting on trauma, resilience, and the quiet search for peace that follows.Drawing on the author's lived experience and landscapes that stretch from Southern Africa to Ireland, Bert Peskens reflects on the emotional terrain left behind by war-its silences, its shadows, and the resilience required to live with what remains. The poems move between stark remembrance and moments of quiet beauty, where sea, land, and sky offer space for reflection, healing, and renewal.Through themes of brotherhood, grief, exile, identity, and survival, this collection offers an intimate meditation on the veteran experience and the human capacity to endure. The voice is contemplative yet grounded, carrying both the weight of lived experience and the possibility of reconciliation with the past.Blending personal reflection with powerful imagery of nature and landscape, The Weight of What Remains stands as a thoughtful work of contemporary poetry that speaks honestly about war, memory, healing, and the search for meaning after conflict.This collection will resonate with readers of war poetry, literary poetry, and reflective contemporary verse who seek writing that explores both the scars of history and the enduring hope for peace. A contemporary war poetry collection exploring memory, loss and healing after conflict. Veteran experiences and landscapes from Southern Africa to Ireland, these poems reflect on trauma, resilience, identity, and search for peace. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781918653014
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