Darkness Inside Out

Offering a variety of explorations into different worlds, real and imaginary, beautiful and barbaric, this poetry compilation attempts to illuminate some of life’s difficult puzzles. A journey through a series of vivid encounters—ranging from fireflies outside a Gascony farmhouse and John Wayne sailing a converted minesweeper to a bull terrier listening to a CD and the poet standing atop Table Mountain with his granddaughter—this collection probes and celebrates traditional affinities between memory and language, time and loss. In its closing poem, this book suggests that it is the imagination that can best turn darkness inside out.

Rodney Pybus is a former newspaper journalist; a former television writer and producer; and a former creative writing, literature, and media university lecturer. He is the author of Cicades in their Summers and Flying Blues and the recipient of awards from the Arts Council England and the Society of Authors, and a winner of the Peterloo International Poetry Competition.