Poems that end the night spilling their vodka on your jeans and asking for a ride home.
Exploring the sacred and the profane, biblical Edens and dirty dive bars in equal measure, "Cheap Hotel Philosophy" is a short poetry collection that takes the reader on a subterranean journey through their own psyche.
In a Universe where the colours of Matisse are more comforting than the word of God, we find a philosophy inspired by Nietzsche that ends up sounding like a cliché pop song.
In this existentially disoriented collection, Teodora Miscov invites readers to relish in the (often botched) attempt of making the incoherent coherent through rhyme. What arises, ironically, is the realisation that the incoherent is where life makes most sense.
"I say, a snake charmer is a charmer nonetheless
And if I must be your snake, let me be venomous and vile
If you want to know my name, then you must guess
You know to be straightforward’s not my style."
Join the author as she explores the paradoxes of existence, grasping at the divine and the mundane with equal confusion.
