Overview

In Swelling Dark, Indira Devos lifts the covers and beckons you closer, offering a space at the edge of the pillow where the softest confessions are made. With a voice that is by turns wry, prayerful, painfully earnest, and delightfully self-skeptical, this debut collection drifts like midnight melancholy, with imagery that glows even in half-light. These poems slip between lullabies and warnings, tenderness and shadow, inviting the reader to rest in the in-between. Structured in sections named for the unruly children of Nyx, goddess of night, the collection becomes a descent toward whatever truth remains in the uneasy spiritual residue left behind when you've outgrown your own myth. Here, dreams bruise. Grief curls against yearning. Identity flickers like a candle refusing to decide whether to burn or go out. Devos gently traces each page like a bare back, with the quiet devastations and small resurrections that shape a life lived in honest darkness. Swelling Dark: The [Anti]hero's Journey is a refreshingly, and hauntingly, honest debut-one that refuses salvation, yet still reaches for it in the night, palms open.

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""an intimate reckoning with grief, desire, and survival-a love letter to the ghosts we carry and the bodies we're learning to live in. These poems pulse. A spectacular debut."" Maria Giesbrecht, Authour of A Little Feral, Founder of Gather ""This book is a body of art. This is grief, but make it gourmet. If I need a little poem to ruin my day, it's here. Jam packed with sharp teeth, every piece hits hard. A forever favourite."" Willem Alberts, Authour of Sacred Misfit, Editor for Gather

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Indira (she/they), also known online as Little Death Poetry, is a Canadian poet and potter, reluctantly working a 9 to 5 in policy development. While her ceramic art is known for playful and vibrant motifs, her poetry paints in darker themes, with grief, yearning, and nostalgia. A millennial emo through and through, their casual and melancholy prose is ripe with references, dripping with brain rot.

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