The Wolf-Ghost

"He knows you, long before you see him if at all, before he comes soundlessly white teeth, like the bones he exposes and cleans with such precision." Drenched in sadness and snow, the poems that make up Stewart's second collection have the running theme of tragic heart ache and pain. Set in a landscape of bleak and cold winter, Stewart lays open his soul once again and sees himself and his actions through the eyes of a terrifying central character, the wolf-ghost. This is a brutal and hard journey to undertake with him, his shocking desires of death and violence are entwined with the reader as witness to horrific acts born out of self loathing, bitterness and above all the blame for worlds falling apart. Following on from his first collection of poems "We Are Weapon", Stewart presents an even harder read with "The Wolf-Ghost", dark and often disturbing Stewart writes of ruin and hopelessness in the blackest hours of the long nights of winter.