"With whimsical imagery that belies the profundity folded into it, Hiram Larew speaks to your heart from the myriad points of view that catch his poetic eye. By touching on elements as ephemeral as gratitude, as unreachable as the moon, as elusive as a line of poetry itself, these poems make you reconsider the business of being alive with a new perspective."
Judith Krummeck
Radio Host and Author of The Deceived Ones and Old New Worlds
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"Hiram Larew is a rich poetry harvest -- lyric fields swelling with charm and poignancy. He is both farmer and yield of what is best in us: a literary meal to savor like “cherries on a branch.”
Truth Thomas
Poet Laureate, Howard County, Maryland, USA
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"When asked Hiram Larew would surely tell you that he doesn’t write poetry so much to answer questions. Rather, he is in love with the questions themselves and gives them the agency to stand alone while still taking on many different poses in his work. This all makes sense because when the reader arrives to the last line in his poem and smiles, or pauses for a second afterwards or even wants to re-read or share a phrase,
then the reader is encouraged to formulate his own questions. This is what Larew sets out to accomplish with this craft that he has so meticulously and beautifully honed. Hiram claims that there aren't many headline stories or life lessons in his poetry, more up-ahead-road-signs-in-the-fog. What soon becomes evident, though, is that so often the path that is not as clearly marked gives us more opportunity for self-discovery than the absolute. Enjoy the journey that this lovely collection of poems waits to afford you."
Annie Klier Newcomer
Teacher, editor, chess player, poet chapbook—Comets, Relationships That Wander
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"Language dominates so much of our thinking that we are imprisoned by our dictionary and grammar, unable to explore who-knows-what realms that we cannot find words to bring into being. Poet Hiram Larew breaks the chains of syntax. His stanzas demand new ways of thinking, which, when we allow, open our eyes to new
ways of seeing, our hearts to new ways of feeling. Hiram’s new book, This Very Much, will do that for you."
Sandra Olivetti Martin
Publisher: New Bay Books • Editor Emerita: Bay Weekly newspaper
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"In his new collection This Much Very huge-hearted poet Hiram Larew humbly takes us where only our wishful hearts can go. Larew wanders in a world of wonder tangible and alive in the fact of imagination. Reading a Larew (I want to write Hiram) poem is to feel him beside you, offering warmth, joy, comfort, a world you deserve. In his poem, Wilt or Stray,” he quietly says, “I tip my hat in love and honor.” He means it."
Jack Ridl
Author of the recently published All At Once (CavanKerry Press)
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"Hiram Larew writes poems as if words were water. Some are fast streams. Some are lazy rivers. Some are vast oceans. Larew fills each poem to the brim with his distinctive, evocative style that blends rural imagery with a deep exploration of human connection.
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If you’re looking for a contemporary poet whose work blends beauty with purpose, Larew offers much to appreciate."
Rick Christiansen
Author of Bone Fragments, Spartan Press, 2024
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"Larew's poetry does the unlikely in revealing overlooked histories and under-acknowledged terrains in deceivingly gentle turns of phrases.
Ryan Dennis
Editor, The Milk House
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"Larew’s poetry subtly explores our connection to nature, drawing us back to our roots. It’s unique in its tender rendering of the yearnings to merge with the earth and the world.
Abha Das Sarma
Poet
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"To read Larew's poems, is to experience the subtle thrall of his wondrous mind's eye. A joy to read."
Eriko Tsugawa-Madden
Poet
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"Reading Hiram Larew's newest book of poetry, This Very Much, is like hearing a song in a language not completely familiar, but feeling the music, the dance.
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The gentle collision of syntax, the surprise of verbs and imagery, "the breeze takes the / Leaves on a lark like my mind", "lifted up in the chilly air by some smokey arm", "raised on twirls and wonder", "that mix I just saw / of sunshine on mud" ... A delightful collection, this very much!"
Poet and Creative, a 2025 Pushcart Prize Nominee
www.JosephineLoRePoet.com
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"Words and phrases must be thrilled and astonished to find themselves in the unusual, slant places that Hiram Larew’s distinctive style gifts to them. And we, the reader, are likewise surprised, caught off guard, by the way this poet’s gentle rearrangement of the expected enables us to see the world with fresh eyes, and recognise the inherent grace of the hum drum, the wonder and beauty of the ordinary.
Dawn Gorman
Poet, broadcaster and editor
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