FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE PSYCHOPATH CLUB AND THE DEVIL’S FINGERSandra Bond is…“talented, knowledgeable, insightful, entertaining, generous, kind, and quite brilliant”Claire Brialey“dark, funny, and plays with your expectations. ”Stewart Hotston“enthusiastically recommended, but don’t try drinking while you read!”Farah Mendlesohn…down in the Poetry SlumIn her first collection of verse, Sandra Bond is by turns hysterically funny, profoundly insightful, powerfully cynical, and deeply moving.

From the title poem:If you want to score sestinasOr a baggie of blank verseYou can buy them on the Darknet —Then again, you could do worseThan slip down to the sleazy spotWhere the versifiers come,And speak to the suppliersDown in the poetry slum. From “The Television Will Not Be Revolutionized”When he saw the Nielsen ratingsThe planner shook his head,And in the same slot next weekA whodunit played instead.

And from “I Threw Myself Upward”I threw myself upwardAnd clutched the empty airWith hands that suddenly feltAs cold as water in a streamThat only runs in winter. The remarkable Sandra Bond (S&ra to her friends) has been everything from a singer-songwriter in an indie rock band to a lawyer to a publisher to a beer truck driver.

As a novelist and as a poet, her original voice will take you on an unforgettable journey. .