Released 30th June, 2024 // 58 pages // 978-1-916938-27-4 // RRP £9.99
Caleb Nichols' One for Sorrow, Two for Joy is steeped in the Welsh language and landscape, offering a queer, outsiders' gaze on the forms, signs, symbols, and ecology of Bangor and its surrounding environments. Nichols meditates on silence, symbols, time, and language while interrogating locatedness, reaching from Bangor and North Wales backwards towards California and its coastal landscapes. One for Sorrow, Two for Joy ruminates on the meaning of home, solitude, queer love and desire, memory, and hope.
PRAISE for One for Sorrow, Two for Joy:
Caleb Nichols’ One for Sorrow, Two for Joy is a book entranced with feeling of flight: freeing, easy to be thrown off course, a constant effort, a liberation. His peripatetic poems focus on what it means to be your own luck and happiness when you’re displaced and forever searching. It’s looking at the world through the eyes of a bird wondering how to build its nest, whilst in the meantime, being aware that until then, he’s content – as we all must be sometimes to be “just here, to listen to the wind."
— Mark Ward
ABOUT Caleb Nichols:
Caleb Nichols is a poet and musician from a working class family in California. His poetry and prose has been published in places like the New England Review, 14 Poems, Poetry Wales, Redivider, and 45th Parallel. Caleb’s rock opera Ramon was released on indie record label Kill Rock Stars in 2022 and he’s toured North American and Europe in support of it and other KRS releases. A best of the net nominee, and a recipient of an Academy of American Poets University prize, Caleb is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Bangor University in North Wales.
