"an intimate journey of self-reflection...sensitive, sincere, and skillful"
--Sherry Quan Lee, author of Chinese Blackbird

About the Author
Nick Purdon was born in 1976 in East London in the Eastern Cape province of SouthAfrica. After a few moves around the country, his family settled in the Western Cape city ofCape Town in 1981 where he has lived since. Nick began writing poetry seriously at the ageof 27, though he had been writing on-and-off since his teenage years.

About the Chapbook
The Road-Shaped Heart is the poetic journey of a man windinghis way through a landscape of darkness, anguish, addiction, lossand grief; carrying with him a lantern of hope, courage, idealism andlove to illuminate a pathway to self-forgiveness, acceptance and spiritualgrowth. While often haunting and melancholy, the poems arealso rich in vivid colour and imagery, with an ever-present sense offire lilies relentlessly springing forth from a razed and scorched soul.

Acclaim for The Road-Shaped Heart
"The Road-Shaped Heart by Nick Purdon will squeeze the heartof each reader to elicit emotions held tight. Each reader will find hisor her own life pain and loss within the words spread before themlike a feast to be swallowed until the soul has been touched."
Barbara Sinor, PhD, author Tales of Addiction and Inspiration for Recovery

Learn more at www.NickPurdon.com

From the World Voices Series at Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com