PerVERSEities II

by Kurt Newton

Poetry collection published by Naked Snake Press. Cover and interior illustrations by Chris Friend. Limited Edition.

"PerVERSEities II is an excellent collection, revealing Newton's mastery of balancing extreme gore against social issues and psychological traumas. Unlike most 'sequels' you don't need to read the first one to read this book (though you should read it anyway). It isn't sexually perverse, but a perversion of verse itself, pushing the boundaries of poetic convention to generate some truly grizzly images and freaky frissons. It's gotta be one of my favorite chapbooks of the year (and I'm including fiction in that list — it out-creeps and satisfies more than a lot of the horror fiction I've been reading lately)." — Michael Arnzen, author of 100 Jolts and Gorelets.com

33 pages, Chapbook

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Kurt Newton sold his first story, "The Promise of the Sea," in 1993. Since then he's had over 400 poems and 250 short stories published in a wide variety of magazines, anthologies and webzines in the U.S., Canada, England, Ireland, Australia, Germany and Poland. To date, he has received sixteen honorable mentions from the editors of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and has been seven times nominated for the Rhysling Award for his poetry.

Among his favorite authors are Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Flannery O'Conner, Harlan Ellison, J.G. Ballard, Joyce Carol Oates, John Shirley, Lucius Shepard, Jonathan Carroll, Christopher Conlon and Paul Tremblay.

He lives in the northeast corner of Connecticut.