Ghosts by proxy: A Collection

by Mark Ryan

Emotions can sometimes take hold and grip you like a vice, forcing you to react to situations, which in hindsight, could be handled without the rawness of an emotive state.But nobody is perfect.Here are a collection of poems covering themes such Anger, Indifference, Sadness, Hope and Love which do not conform to standardized notions of perfection.Set against the backdrop of ‘the trial of the century’, witnesses come forward to tell their own stories and opinions in view of the defendant’s crimes. The witnesses just happen to be ghosts.This collection of poems tackles human emotions that range from the fantastic to the absurd, telescoped in to one rendering through life and love, and all that is in between.

151 pages, Paperback

First published November 26, 2014

About the author

Mark Ryan was born in Oxford, growing up in the shadow of the dreaming spires. He studied film at London Metropolitan University, graduating to M.A in Film Theory.

He has published collections of poetry with ‘Echoes in Space’, ‘Graffitied Heart’ and ‘Drifting in and out of sleep’. ‘Keep it together’ is his contribution to the murder mystery arena as well as his short story collection, ‘Impermanence of things’.

‘The Gospel of No one’ is a poetry fiction hybrid novel, focusing on religious imagery and the inner workings, and broken pieces, of the soul.

His work leans, bends and sways to the metaphysical and supernatural, with a tendency to dabble in the macabre. Questioning questions and searching for answers in the eye of the storm, where there is always hope.

More at www.markryanhavoc.com and www.havocandconsequence.wordpress.com

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