Ghost Poetry

This is a new book. Condition: Brand New.

I saved the pieces of you
when you fell apart

Robert Adamson wrote that Robbie Coburn's poems "come from tough experiences, yet are created with a muscular craft that glows with alert intelligence". Largely set within stark farmland and surreal, nightmarish dreams, Coburn's new collection of poems, Ghost Poetry, is haunted by depression, trauma, addiction, memory, regret, and the spectre of mutilation and violence inflicted on the human body, accompanied by the desire to leave.

But through this, there is always the process of the poet writing; an act that both dissects and preserves experience and suffering. This act ultimately creates, as Leonard Cohen wrote, an engine of survival.

Always vulnerable, often confronting and harrowing, Ghost Poetry is a beautifully crafted and important work that will scar the reader.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780645536898
Published: January 2024

Number of pages: 96
Width: 149 mm
Height: 210 mm
Depth: 11 mm

Publisher: Upswell Publishing