Cerebral & experimental poetry grounded in science fiction, fantasy & philosophy by Sapha Burnell, Peter Graarup Westergaard & Brad Hoge. Coming soon: The Fool’s Journey by Kim Malinowski
The Poetry Collections
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Warning Light Calling
Dissident Soviet literature, it feels, has been living a reclusive life away from the literary mainstream. Warning Light Calling borrows ideas from dissident Soviet literature in order understand contemporary themes and motifs as the precariat, Covid-19, East and West, capitalism, healthcare, mental issues, the individual in a globalized world and the worrying climate crisis.
It is a little treat of fine literature that attempt at leaving a bad taste in the mouth of the world reader – as it seduces her or him into following those forgotten feelings of political Soviet pathos.
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The Drake Equation
The claim that eschewing knowledge allows us to better appreciate beauty is a troubling yet common refrain in modern poetry, the idea that we have lost our innocence and connection to the beauty of nature as we have become more sophisticated and dependent on scientific inquiry. Though there is some value in the motivation for the preceding claim, my poetry explores the expansion of opportunity for wonder from new discoveries and the power of modern natural metaphor.
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Usurper Kings
From her amazingly visceral opening of Let There Be Light to her final haunting echo in the book’s epilogue, Burnell’s voice jumps off the page, much like a microphone-wielding circus MC standing centre ring. [Usurper Kings is] a work of breathtakingly beautiful discovery. Kevin Hogan
Sapha Burnell’s stellar poetry collection inspects the feminine through time. From act I’s genesis and the search for meaning within the hunter gatherer mindset, to the existential singularity of a transhumanist future, Usurper Kings is a mind bending cerebral and emotionally rebellious series of poems. Infinitely feminine, the essence of Usurper Kings is the search to remember feminine might and discover the power to take it back.
The Authors
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Peter Graarup Westergaard
The adventures of a cyberpunk dissident Sputnik weave us through sci-fi approximations of Aarhus, Denmark all the way to a station by the moon.
Peter Graarup Westergaard is a poet & educator, who writes in both Danish and English. He lives in Denmark, and is active on social media.
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Brad Hoge
My poetry is driven by the details of reality, the unfolding of explanation for natural phenomena and by a search for meaning, not mystical, but satisfying to the human mind. Whether emergent property or not, it is human consciousness that imposes meaning onto the quantum fabric of reality. And this is where my poetry finds joy and peace.
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Sapha Burnell
Her explosive debut, Usurper Kings was the first work by cyberpunk & mythpunk author Sapha Burnell.
“I teethed on images of the Berlin Wall falling down, nebulous family never met now as open as crumbling concrete & rebar. Usurper Kings is an inspection of the feminine through time.”