Run Riot: Ninety Poems in Ninety Days - Softcover

Ash Winters

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1773860542 ISBN 13: 9781773860541

Publisher: Caitlin Press (CA), 2021

Synopsis

This is a weird place to wake up / For someone who has woken up in some pretty strange places before. With one poem written each day during Ash Winters ninety-day stay at a Vancouver rehab centre, Run Riot is a fiercely personal account of what it feels like to stop drinking after a decade of excess. Run Riot takes the reader through moments of determination, anger, hilarity, and heartbreak. Winters frank portrayal of early sobriety offers companionship to those who know it well and insight for those that want to know it better. Weaving the past and the present together with ruthless vulnerability, Run Riot is a powerful portrait of one person's struggle against addiction, laying bare an honest search to heal and better understand one's self.

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About the Author

Ash Winters is an emerging Toronto-based poet. Queer and sober, their work navigates the intersections of addiction, identity and trauma. Growing up queer in small town Ontario gave Winters a chance to develop a lavish sense of humour and a deep respect for empathy, both of which come through in their work. They graduated with their BA in English from Lakehead University in 2010. Their poetry has recently appeared in Existere and Open Minds Quarterly. Run Riot is their first book of poetry.

Edition details

• Publisher: Caitlin Press (CA)
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1773860542
• ISBN 13: 9781773860541
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96