The Blues Comes with Good News (2019, first edition)

Sonny Hall's verse, this copy bought at Shakespeare & Company in Paris

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Printing Details

First edition. Hardback, printed gilt titling to covers. 20.5 × 13.5cm, 170pp. This copy with the bookseller stamp of Shakespeare and Company of Paris to the title page.

Inspired by Diane di Prima, Rene Ricard, Henry Miller and others 'who tell it like it is', The Blues Comes with Good News is a collection of poems by prolific writer, Sonny Hall. The collection ranges from articulating addiction, self-destruction and identity, to romantic relationships, his journey to recovery and his unapologetic depiction of truth, through life and its happenings.

At 18 years old Sonny entered a treatment centre for alcohol and drug addiction, after losing his biological mother—who he remained close to despite being adopted aged 4—to a heroin overdose. Three months into his treatment, Hall started writing poems as a way of ordering 'all the madness' in his head. He has since written hundreds of poems, which all portray his newfound intimacy with life, figuring it out as he goes on, never failing to write sincerely about the sting of life, through a rare candour, explicit and seedy within the realms of his own indulgence.

Condition

Good condition. There is some sunning to the spine, and light abrasions to the covers but the contents are in very good condition.

ISBN

9781529383973

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