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​Itinerant Songs (2025)


For those of us that work and are weighed down, Terra Oliveira’s Itinerant Songs is a yearning for home—for safe, affordable shelter, clean, commonly-held water, and the rights to our own land and being amongst our people. Through low-wage jobs, the “hard-facts of devotion,” and pilgrimage and recovery, these poems are a politically urgent testament to our times as much as they are a lasting, spiritual attestation.

"I felt such power reading this book. The poems keep strumming the big 'we'—we who tend the earth, who work underpaid jobs, who live in moldy homes and breathe in wildfire smoke. These populist prayers hum with aliveness. Here is the world so frankly recorded that it feels new."
— Lora Mathis, author of The Snakes Came Back (Metatron Press)

"What we need for the times ahead are words, language, an articulation of all the unseen and unsaid things—and Terra Oliveira's Itinerant Songs is exactly this. This book provokes by stating the truth and encouraging conviction through annunciation—'honesty is the warmest blanket,' Oliveira reminds us. These words connect us and they buoy us towards the future."
— Fariha Róisín, author of Survival Takes a Wild Imagination (Andrews McMeel)

"Itinerant Songs is a prayer, a protest, and an outstretched hand rooted in solidarity. Through poems that move across cities, histories, and homelands, Terra Oliveira traces the contours of labor, belonging, grief, and spiritual longing with a voice that is both precise and tender. This collection honors the political in the personal and the everyday acts of resistance that keep us connected to each other and the earth. Oliveira writes toward a world where care is not a luxury—where housing, healthcare, water, and rest are rights, not privileges, and where the act of noticing becomes a necessary form of defiance. These pages hold reverence for those who came before, care for those living through the now, and a steady hope for the future we must all work to build together.”
— Sam Slupski, author of Until Tender (Game Over Books)

ISBN: 979-8-218-64593-9
Preorder: April 22nd, 2025.
Release Date: July 15th, 2025.

the road is long & beautiful  (2022)


A 570 mile walking pilgrimage from Lisbon, Portugal to Santiago de Compostela, Spain along the Caminho Português (The Portuguese Way). 58 days, one & a half million steps in 35mm color photographs.

35mm photography (color).

And Still To Sleep (2018)


And Still To Sleep is a collection of poems, prose, and black and white photography which touch on the impact and personal aftermath of transience, houselessness, and working under exploitative conditions. By untangling the weight of memory, And Still To Sleep weaves lucid recollections of past events throughout the wholeness and divinity of presence.
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Processes: a Meditation (2017)


These illustrated verses are a witnessing of one's self, in all that we have, in all that we've lost, in all that's on its way to us.

Processes: A Meditation unravels a small, unclouded window into a life in reflection of itself, as energy felt through the body, with the intent to bring ​the reader back to their awareness; their spiritual center.
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Micropoetry and illustrations.​
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An old blue light (2017)


​​"Terra Oliveira has always been able to bring the achingly human and the cosmic together, their poetry being the meeting point. This book feels like a triumph over loss. It feels like a discovery within oneself. Both ethereal and grounding at the same time. I feel as if I am experiencing their personal journey with them. They do not fail to inspire."
— Emery Allen, author of Become. and Soft Human

Poetry and illustrations.
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First edition published by Where Are You Press in September 2016.
​Second edition published by Recenter Press in September 2017.
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