The Trapdoor: Poems on Sobriety and Survival

By Ceri Sian

Raw. Lyrical. Unforgiving.

Trapdoor is a hauntingly honest collection about surviving addiction, relapse, and recovery. These poems sit in the silence of meeting rooms, trace the fragile edges of sobriety, and listen for the echoes of lives lived on the brink. From the pull of relapse to the small grace of daily rituals, Trapdoor explores the thresholds we fall through-and the ones we climb back from.

Both intimate and unflinching, this book captures the grit of survival alongside the tenderness of motherhood and the hard work of hope.

For readers of Kaveh Akbar (Pilgrim Bell), Ada Lim n (The Carrying), and Maggie Smith (You Could Make This Place Beautiful), Trapdoor refuses neat redemption while still daring to imagine what comes next.

✔ For anyone who has walked through recovery, or sat in its rooms
✔ For those who know relapse as a language of its own
✔ For readers who want poetry that cuts deep, but still carries light

Step into Trapdoor and discover what waits beneath survival.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FSSC21RN
• ISBN13: 9798262818570
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"