DarkWinter Press is excited to announce our latest release, the poetry collection Ever Striding Edge by Paul Brookes, available now on Amazon in paperback and e-version for Kindle! You can buy it here!
About Ever Striding Edge:
"Ever Striding Edge, the conclusion of Paul Brookes' Gander Septology, is an undeniably beautiful work of art that begins on a rock edge of silence. You cannot help but hold your breath. In these pages lives a collection of poems that explore the complexities of the inside of stillness, waiting, watching disappearance down long corridors. As you read, you are learning to hold your breath. This is an offering of words steeped in memory, poured from the aching focus of a boyhood lens, reflected upon with the richness of a man's expansive mind and heart. In these poems, Brookes dives into a deconstructing of belonging, an illumination of what has been misconstrued as void, reminding us to "listen to quiet ones slowly." Ever Striding Edge is a painful, at times intoxicating, and strikingly vast collection of poems about living and dying, and where it all really happens, underneath, in a held breath."
Susan Richardson
About The Author
Paul Brookes is a shop asst. Lives in a cat house full of teddy bears. First play performed at The Gulbenkian Theatre, Hull. His chapbooks include debut chapbook: The Fabulous Invention Of Barnsley, (Dearne Community Arts, 1993). Collections: A World Where and She Needs That Edge (Nixes Mate Press, 2017, 2018), The Spermbot Blues (OpPRESS, 2017) is Sci-Fi poetry, Please Take Change (Cyberwit.net, 2018), As Folk Over Yonder (Afterworld Books, 2019).
A poetry collaboration with artist Jane Cornwell resulted in “Wonderland in Alice, plus other ways of seeing”, (JC Studio Press, 2021). The beginning of the “Ganders” septology, whose other books are: “As Folktaleteller” (ImpSpired, 2022), “These Random Acts of Wildness, (Glass Head Press, 2023), “Othernesses”, (JC Studio Press, 2023), Wolf Eye (Red Ceilings Press, 2023), Wolf Eye Territory (ImpSpired, 2024), and Ever Striding Edge (Dark Winter Press, 2024). He has had work broadcast on BBC Radio 3 The Verb and videos of his Self-Isolation sonnet sequence featured by Barnsley Museums and Hear My Voice Barnsley. He also does photography commissions.
Recently his work has been broadcast on BBC Radio Sheffield. He does not believe in competitions, but has been nominated for the Rhysling Prize, and thrice for the Pushcart Prize. Recently, guest edited for Setumag “Some British Working Class Poets” for a second year.
He edits The Wombwell Rainbow Interviews and challenges and a new Substack webzine, The Starbeck Orion. https://thewombwellrainbow.wordpress.com
And a huge thank-you to Jane Cornwell for such a beautiful cover design!
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