The Night Side

By Amanda Merpaw

Written in the aftermath of a traumatic brain injury, The Night Side is a meditation on death in its many forms: from cultural and ecological collapse to the often invisible, life-altering changes and fears tied to coping with chronic and acute illness. Taking up lived experiences with depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and illness, Amanda Merpaw wrestles with the complexity and variability of grief and hope in poems that map an uncertain future. In this liminal space, the poet discovers joy in moments of "praise, small and alive." The Night Side is a powerful collection that resists shame and doom, reclaiming agency in the face of significant disruption.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1997508354
• ISBN13: 9781997508359
• Release Date: May 2027
• Publisher: Anstruther Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.5"