Kurt Newton
The sixth chapbook from back room poetry.
This is what Kurt has to say about his chapbook –
Like a fever dream from a disturbed mind, A Troubled Sleep compiles Newton’s most surreal, most nightmarish poetry and prose poems to date.
Here is a taster poem from the chapbook to arouse your poetry appetite:
pulling the plug at the icu lie still when the silence wakes you don’t breathe (you can’t breathe) believe what your eyes are seeing the creatures in the hall are waiting to claim you fate mongers and trauma thieves paying off the bag ladies with a few more hours of afterlife to sit and play the slots just slide out from beneath that sheet don’t look what you leave behind (you can’t take what you leave behind) your body is just a broken vessel that leaks from the moment of its birth but it’s not the juice the creatures want it’s the residue trapped inside they collect it into snuff boxes and sell it on the black market quick while the window’s open don’t be afraid (there are worse things than death) don’t wait to hear the creep of footsteps or the scalpel scrape of collection tools the bag ladies will soon run out of quarters so follow my voice out beyond this ledge a simple leap of faith
BR6: 24 February 2023. Poetry chapbook. 40 pages
A troubled sleep
back room poetry 