Released March 31st, 2025 // 48 pages // 978-1-916938-85-4 // RRP: £9.99
 
Aled Turner's Earsplitting is a visceral, unflinching collection that dissects the jagged intersections of memory, violence, and disquiet with a poet's scalpel. The language is sharp-edged, rhythmic, and unsentimental, moving through psychological and physical landscapes of raw intensity. Turner’s work lingers in the body—whether through the grit of intimacy, the weight of familial fractures, or the ghosts of past decisions. At once lyrical and brutal, this collection resists easy categorisation, offering instead a precise and unsparing examination of the fractures that shape human experience.
 
PRAISE for Earsplitting:
The world that Aled Turner creates in Earsplitting is simultaneously curious and knowing, poems that bring to light the palatable and difficult parts of our subjectivities, such as 'our blood-soaked debauchery'. In this stirring debut, Turner successfully manipulates language to his will, poems in constant communication with one another even when in contrast, which only results in a fire that is warmer, a concrete more solid to the touch. A welcome new voice.
— Troy Cabida
 
ABOUT Aled Turner:
Aled Turner is a North Walian writer and graduate of Kingston University’s MFA Creative Writing programme. His work has been featured in Abridged, Prototype, and Maudlin House amongst other publications. He was recently shortlisted for the Desperate Literature prize for short fiction.