Books by David Whyte

Reimagine how you inhabit the worlds of love, work, and self-understanding. The Three Marriages suggests that separating these “marriages” in order to balance them is to destroy the fabric of happiness itself, and that only by understanding the journey involved in each one, and the stages of their maturation, can we understand how to bring them together in one fulfilled life.

Crossing the Unknown Sea is about reuniting the imagination with our day to day lives. It shows how poetry and practicality, far from being mutually exclusive, reinforce each other to give every aspect of our lives meaning and direction. For anyone who wants to deepen their connection to their life’s work—or find out what their life’s work is—this book can help navigate the way.

One of the first books in North America in the nineties to address the place of the human soul in the workplace. Going beneath the surface concerns about products and profits, organization and order, Whyte addresses the needs of the heart and soul, and the fears and desires that many workers keep hidden. Some of the difficult dynamics addressed in the book are thankfully now in the past, but the explorations taken chapter by chapter still take the reader to deep, rewarding and life-changing places.

In Consolations David Whyte unpacks aspects of being human that many of us spend our lives trying vainly to avoid – loss, heartbreak, vulnerability, fear – boldly reinterpreting them, fully embracing their complexity, never shying away from paradox in his relentless search for meaning. Consolations invites readers into a poetic and thoughtful consideration of words whose meaning and interpretation influence the paths we choose and the way we traverse them throughout our lives.