WORKS
Her We Serve: Poems & Stories
Thunderous Press & Studios, 2025
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With these poems and stories, Timothy P. McLaughlin brings us far into the wild mountains and the wilds of the human soul, to regard and name things as they are: in turns astonishing and devastating. In tender recounts of nature wanders and of family relations, sweeping anthems of praise and lament, and a unique brand of new mythology, the state of earthly life is here explored with an unwavering eye and a keen ear.
Seeds Under the Tongue: Ecopoetry
Thunderous Press & Studios, 2019
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In this second collection, Timothy P. McLaughlin wields a boldly ecstatic voice to explore a confluence of themes: wanderings on the wild earth, relations with more-than-human presences, engagement with indigenous ceremony, reckoning with Catholicism, the swirl of young family life. These heart scores are delivered in a euphonic, incantatory brand of storytelling that delights and provokes at the depths.
Rooted & Risen: Poems
Thunderous Press & Studios, 2016
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This début collection of poems from Timothy P. McLaughlin chronicles an inspired intimacy with the still wild places and presences of Earth. The musical, iridescent language delights the senses and draws the reader/listener back into an essential creatureliness and basic loving kinship with the natural world.
PRAISE
Her We Serve
“McLaughlin is always working to heal humans back into the wider tangle of the land, to entwine the many-voiced eloquence of the forest with his human tongue…The poetic sparks given off by his strivings carry clues and hints for those who seek to remain true to what matters.”
from the foreword by David Abram, author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
“McLaughlin crafts a breathtaking tapestry of nature and its vital connection to body and soul, weaving the raw and the reverent into verses that pulse with life. This collection is a lyrical anatomy of the wild, where rivers become veins, forests breathe, and the earth’s ancient bones whisper stories of resilience and reverence. A truly magnificent work from a rare bard—this is a book to cherish and visit with often.”
Joan Borysenko, New York Times bestselling author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind
Seeds Under the Tongue
“McLaughlin is truly an anam chara (soul friend) of the beauty, sacredness and potency of Mother Nature. These verses are magnificent symphonies of delight and praise as well as practical meditation seedlings that promise to entice the reader into the most profound state of mysticism. They are kernels to be experienced from the heart; saplings of a cosmic revolution.”
Rev. Nóirín Ní Riain, author of Listen with the Ear of the Heart
“McLaughlin's poetry offers insights into nature (or the real world, as far as I am concerned) and offers lessons and perspectives into things we should all pause to see and feel now and then, but don't.”
Joseph M. Marshall III, author of The Lakota Way
Rooted & Risen
“I love this collection—love the soul/heart’s evanescence flaking into stanzaic embodiments of bright effervescence to express our oneness, our beauty and fragility; these poems commemorate and celebrate our gratitude, each is a thumb-nail scoop of God’s love for us…”
Jimmy Santiago Baca, author of Singing at the Gates
"For poetry to do its magic, there must be evocative space around the poems and also space around the heart and mind of the poet—giving the reader room to move freely, to change, to see anew, to evoke a leap in the heart and an opening of the mind. McLaughlin offers the reader all of the above—and more!"
Fr. Richard Rohr, author of Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life