Jac Winters’ emotionally candid poetry collection, To Say Goodbye Again, has received the Literary Titan Gold Book Award, honoring a work praised for its vulnerability, emotional honesty, and powerful exploration of grief, memory, resilience, and redemption.
To Say Goodbye Again is a deeply personal poetry collection from Jac Winters, a Canadian-born poet, retired truck driver, husband, and father who spent half a century carrying memories in silence. What began as private verses in 2017 became a transformative act of truth-telling, opening the door to decades of fear, confusion, anger, love, and hard-won peace.
Literary Titan described the collection as “vulnerable and deeply felt,” noting that its greatest strength is “emotional candor” and the sense that “someone is finally saying the thing they’ve carried too long in silence.” The review also praised Winters’ ability to turn private pain into language “sturdy enough to carry it,” calling the book a compelling choice for readers who value autobiographical poetry, reflective writing about grief and endurance, and books centered on truth-telling.
Written from a life shaped by labor, family, loss, trauma, and the long solitude of the road, To Say Goodbye Again moves through themes of masculinity, work, self-acceptance, childhood memory, faith, and survival. Poems born from the cab of a truck and the endless black ribbon of highway pay quiet homage to endurance, redemption, and the simple joy of trucking.
For Winters, the collection was never simply a writing project. It was a necessity. After years of hauling freight across the continent, he found that he had carried more than cargo. Grief, lost love, family memories, and old wounds had traveled with him for decades. Poetry became the way he could finally give voice to what silence could no longer hold.
The collection also serves as an intimate prelude to Winters’ forthcoming memoir, Shadows, Roads and Redemption, scheduled for a mid-summer 2026 release. Together, these works continue his larger mission of speaking honestly to readers who may be carrying silent burdens of their own.
To Say Goodbye Again is for anyone who has lived with grief, regret, trauma, or unresolved goodbyes. It offers readers a message of resilience and connection, reminding them that they are not alone.
Readers can purchase To Say Goodbye Again on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. This award-winning poetry collection invites readers into a moving journey of survival, reflection, and peace, making it a meaningful read for those drawn to autobiographical poetry, emotional healing, and stories of strength found after silence.
About the Author
Jac Winters is a Canadian-born poet, retired truck driver, husband, and father. After spending decades on the road, he turned to poetry as a way to give language to grief, memory, work, trauma, love, and resilience. His writing reflects a life shaped by long miles, family responsibility, personal loss, and the hard-earned wisdom that comes from facing what has been carried in silence. To Say Goodbye Again, a Literary Titan Gold Book Award recipient, is his debut poetry collection and an intimate prelude to his forthcoming memoir, Shadows, Roads and Redemption, scheduled for release in mid-summer 2026.
Email: authorjacwinters@gmail.com
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