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Gifts of the Dark is a chapbook containing the poetry of Simon Bowden. See below for details of the reviews featured in the current print.
How do we come out of a brush with death? Will it affect our ability to embrace life and love?
Gifts of the Dark arises from an extreme medical experience, causing the author to examine the nature of the human soul in darkness.
Facing your mortality, when you don’t believe in a personal God waiting to receive you, involves a dialogue with the dark, emptiness, nothing. This conversation, waiting sleepless for dawns to break in a hospital window, can be transforming.
Through short poems in a variety of forms, the book explores this inner battleground and a human future as the fighting subsides.
NB: If you are ordering for delivery outside the UK, please contact us via ditheringchaps@gmail.com to obtain the latest postal rates. Thank you.
Plus postage and packing
Gifts of the Dark is a chapbook containing the poetry of Simon Bowden. See below for details of the reviews featured in the current print.
How do we come out of a brush with death? Will it affect our ability to embrace life and love?
Gifts of the Dark arises from an extreme medical experience, causing the author to examine the nature of the human soul in darkness.
Facing your mortality, when you don’t believe in a personal God waiting to receive you, involves a dialogue with the dark, emptiness, nothing. This conversation, waiting sleepless for dawns to break in a hospital window, can be transforming.
Through short poems in a variety of forms, the book explores this inner battleground and a human future as the fighting subsides.
NB: If you are ordering for delivery outside the UK, please contact us via ditheringchaps@gmail.com to obtain the latest postal rates. Thank you.
The reprint features glowing reviews from, among others:
poet and past T S Eliot Prize winner, Philip Gross
award-winning screenwriter and playwright, John Foster
poet, translator and reviewer, Martyn Crucefix and
poet, broadcaster and clarinettist, John Mole
