Iambic

By: Marco Di Chio

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Paperback | 4 September 2025

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A collection of lyrical and terrifying poems written entirely in iambic meter.

IAMBIC pulses with the ancient rhythm of English verse-each beat a step deeper into the uncanny. This debut collection blurs the line between lyrical beauty and creeping horror. With hypnotic language and a cinematic eye, Marco Di Chio leads readers through ghostly forests, shifting mirrors, abandoned houses, and haunting memories. The poems speak of longing, death, memory, and madness-often in the same breath.

Drawing inspiration from English literary tradition, IAMBIC honours the meter of Shakespeare and Milton while crafting something entirely new. This is not just poetry to be read-this is poetry to be heard, to be felt, to be feared. Once entered, it doesn't let you go.

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A fervent outpouring of painstakingly crafted verse, Iambic by Marco Di Chio is an operatic ode to memory, love, friendship, nature, and the divine. Imbued with nuance in every vivid scene and summoned sensation, this intensely realized collection resembles long-form storytelling, laden with unforgettable lyrical symbols and striking meditations on both the minutiae and vast magnitude of existence. Revelatory in its imagery, powerful in its message, and metrically meticulous, with nary a slant rhyme to be found, Di Chio's poetry regularly flirts with perfection, and effortlessly overflows with profundity, making it an authentic master class in precision and linguistic power. -SPR

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a collection of versatility; confronting honesty and intense expression alongside hope, light and distinctive spirit. A poignant, inspired and assured debut collection contemporary in its accessibility as a poetry collection it transfixes the reader, resonating deeply and, at times, unable to be read without a catch in the throat as the emotion which drives the work is deeply evocative, transportive in the informality of the authorial voice. - AUSTIN MACAULAY

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