Marginalia: The 4 AM Confessions

By Elly Marlow

Marginalia: The 4 AM Confessions is a revised and expanded edition of Elly Marlow's debut collection, Marginalia. These pages carry the fragments that surface long after midnight; the confessions scrawled at 1:43 AM, the bar-napkin vows, the dark corners of memory that glow only under neon light. This edition includes new, previously unpublished poems: darker, sharper, and tinged with the smoke and spill of late nights. These are poems for the almosts, the overthoughts, the oaths whispered under whiskey breath. For those who know that love can be messy, that illusions have consequences, and that even the margins of a page can hold entire worlds. Written for readers who underline lines in pen, who haunt coffee shops and dive bars, who believe poetry lives best when it's both beautiful and bruised. The 4 AM Confessions is a companion for the insomniacs, the romantics, and anyone who's ever looked for hidden meaning in the glow of a neon bar sign after last call.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G2J4H6PR
• ISBN13: 9798270834111
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"