ON AN APRIL MOURNING

« In her debut poetry collection, Zoë Riches opens her heart fully and displays the raw, the bloody, the gore-ridden mess that is her inner world – navigating the complex idea of being deeply infatuated with someone who is (probably) unattainable. She set her own temporal existence ablaze as she ascends to godhood through love and loss.

Riches shares the macabre concept of ripping your own heart out of your delicate chest for someone you love, even if nothing will be accomplished from it; allowing yourself to be driven to absolute feral madness; sobbing and screaming under the light of the full moon as you watch The Tower come crumbling down around you. »

This collection contains the bloody birth-mass of Riches in the form of poetry, prose, photography and artwork.