PETE’S POETRY

Books & writing.

Available now · Peter N. Liptak

Poetry to take home.

On my writing desk ↗
Complete Letters cover with the alphabet rendered in graphic black and silver letterforms

Poetry & graphic art

Letters

Building an Alphabet with Art and Attitude

An alphabet told through poems, shapes and visual play. Dip into a letter, share it aloud, or leave the book open for someone else to discover.

Complete blue and white cover of Baek Seok: Poems of the North, including translator and illustrator credits

Korean poetry · English translation

Baek Seok

Poems of the North

Korean originals, English translations and blue illustrations. Food, snow, village life and longing—for readers drawn to the life inside ordinary things.

Poet: Baek Seok · Translation: Peter N. Liptak
Artwork: Choi Joongwon

A book on your shelf. A little fuel for the next poem.

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A few pages to spend time with

Look inside.

Inside Letters · An A in ArtUnchanged interior spread from Letters: the A artwork and its poemChoose your edition of Letters ↗
Inside Baek Seok · Summer Rice PaddyUnchanged Baek Seok interior spread with Korean and English poems and blue landscape artworkExplore the bilingual hardcover ↗

Current writing projects

On my writing desk.

Three books in progress: D is for Darkness, Death and Chocolate, and Love/Hate.

Current writing project

D is for
Darkness

A gothic alphabet book.
A haunted world taking shape.

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D is for Darkness cover study: a mysterious figure in a top hat before a moonlit haunted house

Cover study for D is for Darkness: The Sinister ABC’s.

Current writing project

Death and
Chocolate

Poems by Peter N. Liptak.

Explore the poems ↗
Two skulls in chocolate and cream tones, surrounded by broken chocolate

Artwork study for Death and Chocolate.

Current writing project

Love/Hate

A poetry project by Peter N. Liptak.

Explore love poems ↗
Two faces in profile, one in red and black thorns, the other in teal and flowing dark hair

Artwork study for Love/Hate.