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, identity commodification, sexuality, pop culture, and queer consumer culture. This is a book that tackles isolation and loss head-on and thinks hard and with wry humour about how to position ourselves in this lonely, scary, compelling world.

Genres: Poetry

128 pages, Paperback

Published April 23, 2024

About the author

Daniel Zomparelli is the founder of Poetry Is Dead magazine and the host of I'm Afraid That.

Reviews

[diagnosed bookaholic · Rating 1 out of 5]

Jump Scare is a collection of poetry by a gay Canadian author named Daniel Zomparelli. Poetry can be abstract, but this was just too far. It felt like he just wrote down whatever popped into his mind, just random unrelated words. That is what it felt like to me.

Genre: Poetry

[Natalie S · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely adored this. Quick read, and I (unbelievably) understood all the references! Would reccomend to all. The first few were my favorite of the collection.

[Kayla T · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant. Picked it up to read a few lines and accidentally read the whole thing. Masterful, painful, hilarious and real.

[Jude Atwood · Rating 5 out of 5]

To understand why this volume of contemporary queer poetry is so great, you need to know that the end notes include a recommended viewing list of horror movies.