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Paperback / softback
ISBN: 9781772016109
Pages: 107
Pub. Date: April 2 2024
Dimensions: 9" x 6" x 0.5"
Rights: Available: WORLD
Categories
Poetry / POE011000

  • POETRY / LGBTQ+
  • POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss
  • POETRY / Canadian

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Jump Scare

By Daniel Zomparelli

At once raw and skillful, painful and funny, personal and pervasive, the poems in Jump Scare dig deep into mental health, neurodivergence, grief, dreams, monstrosity, sexuality, pop culture, queer consumer culture, and the commodification of identity. Jump Scare tackles isolation and loss head-on and thinks hard and with wry humour about how to position ourselves in our lonely, scary, compelling lives.

"Jump Scare offers both solace and humour when life’s curveballs become a bit too creepy." – Jill Mandrake, Simon Says

By Daniel Zomparelli

Daniel Zomparelli is editor-in-chief of Poetry Is Dead magazine and recipient of the 2011 Pandora’s Collective Publishers of Magazines Award. Zomparelli is also program coordinator for the Megaphone magazine Community Creative Writing Program, which offers free creative writing classes for low-income and homeless people. He writes for and works with several magazines across Vancouver, including Geist, Megaphone, Sad Mag, Granville Online and, formerly, Adbusters. Davie Street Translations is Zomparelli’s first book of poems.

Read more about Daniel Zomparelli