The Cycle

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The Cycle
by Darius Rodrigues
56 pgs, A6, ring-bound, embossed hardcover

'The Cycle is fucking unique. Way beyond the reach of critique. Urban Zen.' - DBC Pierre, Booker-Prize winning author

RESERVE 2ND EDITION

The first edition of The Cycle has unfortunately sold out, but now you can reserve your copy of the second edition including new poems written since 2021.

The Cycle (a book for anyone going through grief, so all of us) records life after a death in 24 poems. You hear the final thoughts a fly, you talk to your unborn child, you watch the sun. You find clarity, forgiveness, yourself laughing.

Chaptered by The Five Stages of Grief, the ringbinding mechanism recreates grief's true user experience: unpredictable, non-linear, and requiring effort. The Cycle is designed for emergency use - the book is pocket-sized and the website is designed for endless scrolling in portrait. The book's cover is embossed for fidgeters, and grounding touches.

Praise

'It's fucking unique. Way beyond the reach of critique. Urban Zen.' - DBC Pierre, Booker-Prize winning author

'Reading The Cycle I felt like I'd been allowed into something, but not something outside myself, something I already knew. Something generous and important. A memory looking forward." - Polarbear, Spoken-word artist, Novelist and Playwright

'In the global moment, we are all experiencing currently, that we all process at different speeds in differing ways, The Cycle feels like a quietly vital piece of work' - Review Bookshop

Stockists

London: Burley Fisher, Housmans, Libreria, Pages of Hackney, Review
Glasgow: Burning House Books, Good Press
Lisbon: XYZ Books

Contributors

Written: Darius Rodrigues
Design: Will Knight
Website: Rifke Sadleir
Paper: G F Smith
Typefaces: Colletivo, Chester Jenkins
Printed: Service Graphics
Photographs: Will Bremridge