DeadVerse: The Poetry of Scott Kaelen, Volume One

by Scott Kaelen

An alternate cover edition can be found here.

Poems of life and death, of love and despair, through fleeting existence and the vast timelessness of the universe, tackling the horrors of humanity and the rawness of nature, with glimpses of far-distant pasts and glistening futures, exploring reason and madness, on a search for ultimate resolutions.
This is DeadVerse, the first volume of poetry by Scott Kaelen.

Contents
A Dedication (poem)
Could Have Been (poem)
It Squashed Between My Fingers (poem)
The Wrong Side (poem)
Late (poem)
Life In A Round Room (poem)
Impermanence (poem)
Perception (poem)
When My Bones (poem)
Trilobite (poem)
Eyes In Moonlight Drown (poem)
Quietly Gone (poem)
How Will I Go? (poem)
Penance (poem)
Gods Of Extinction (poem)
Angerland (poem)
The Cleanser (poem)
The Eldritch Key (poem)
Centuries (poem)
The Claustrophobic God (poem)
The Price (poem)
Playroom (poem)
When Your Eyes Close (poem)
Black Dwarf Ocean (poem)
Searchlights Of Ethereal Airships (poem)
Do You Know Now? (poem)
Calm After The Storm (sketch)
Afternotes
A Move In The Right Direction (essay)

Genres: Poetry

78 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 7, 2015

About the author

Scott Kaelen writes primarily in the genre of epic fantasy. His debut novel, The Blighted City, achieved semi-finalist in the SPFBO4 contest and finalist in the IAA2020 contest. His second book in the Fractured Tapestry series, The Nameless And The Fallen, reached the quarter finals in SPFBO7. Scott’s interests include etymology, prehistoric Earth, the universe, science fiction, fantasy and horror.

Reviews

[MJD · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some reviews seem to have written this off as just the work of an "angry, edgy atheist," but while there is criticism of religion in the collection I think that it offers more. There is a sense of melancholy that is reminiscent of Emil Cioran, a sort of dark secular Buddhist underpinning (focusing on the "first noble truth" that life is suffering). I do not think that it is something that someone should read while they are down, but it is something to help one contemplate impermanence and ennui.

[Tabatha · Rating 2 out of 5]

Religious nonsense

Though I enjoyed some of the wording, it having everything to do with my perceptions of my awakening...I do find this to be too much along the lines of religion. That aspect granted it a lower rating for me.

[Samantha · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some were super deep but I really didn’t get a theme and it just lost my interest