The August Current

I’ll be honest with you: I didn’t plan to publish a second book this year. After The Weight of Light, which slipped quietly into the world and was met with silence, I felt disheartened. It was as if the book never really existed, as if all the work and heart I poured into it vanished without a trace. That hurt more than I expected. For a while I thought I would hold back, focus on future projects, and stop rushing words into a void. If you had asked me in July whether I was planning another release this year, my answer would have been no.

And yet, here I am tonight, with The August Current finished and ready for your eyes. I feel proud, deeply so. This book demanded to exist. I had no choice in the matter. The words came with such force that all I could do was follow, filling notebooks until my hands cramped and my nights blurred into mornings.

The result is ninety poems, written in a sudden wave between late July and early August. Almost none of them have appeared on the blog before. They are fresh, unpolished, and alive in the way only a creative rush can be. I typed them with only the smallest adjustments, wanting to preserve the rawness that came through in the moment.

This time the book carries something extra. Alongside the typed poems I included a few photos of the handwritten originals. Ink smudges, crossings-out, crooked lines. They show the poems as they arrived, flaws and all, and I think that adds a truth and a charm that polished pages cannot hold.

The title chose itself. The August Current is exactly what happened. A current moved through me, and I let it. I didn’t plan another book, I didn’t even want one, but it swept me up and carried me here.

So here we are. The Kindle edition is available on Amazon worldwide as of today. The paperback will follow on September 21st, equinox. A turning of seasons feels like the right moment for a book born of such intensity. Signed copies will also be available directly from me.

It has been tiring, yes, but more than anything it has been exhilarating. I had given up on the idea of releasing something new this year, and still, this book insisted.

And maybe, in some quiet way, you were part of this current too. The thought of you reading, even silently, carried me through. So this book is not only mine, it is also yours. So maybe celebrate with me. The August Current is my tenth book, and it is already available on Kindle. The paperback will follow on September 21st.