the garden eternal.

a window to the soul

Poetry is the most spiritual and sacred of all the arts. It has the ability, if executed with honesty, to reveal a layer of nakedness unachievable by other mediums. It strips bare all senses: visual, auditory, etc. and takes place purely in the mind.

It transcends the need for physical articulation, erasing all external barriers and showing the inner workings of the mind in its most fragile and embryonic form.

It aims to capture the complexities of how one’s thoughts process an emotion before the limitations of the world are set upon it.

In my debut full-length collection of poetry, ‘The Garden Eternal’, I have carved up pieces of my soul and weaved them with both passion and torment between its pages.

Over the years, I have found it only possible for me to write poetry in either a state of absolute dysphoria or in a state of manic bliss (and often in the reflective withdrawal following either’s conclusion.)

This is the result; a menagerie into my soul, with all its blemishes and purities.

I’m releasing only 100 first edition copies, all of which are hand-packed by me, signed, numbered, accompanied by a hand-written letter and a tarot card from my personal collection (as a secret fortune).

Half of the books have already been sold from the social media launch.

If you’d like to pick up a copy, you can do so here: The Garden Eternal (First Edition)

My promise here has always been to bare my heart and soul to you on a naked platter. This is my deliverance on that promise.

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just this morning 

I became acutely

aware of the carousel

and I watched

the shining picture of youth

with brilliant diamonds in his hands

simply step off the platform

and cease to be —

where I followed

he never faltered

he was always five horses ahead. 

and it is only now

when I look down

that I see the plastic saddle.

- The Garden Eternal