CRIME FICTION AUTHOR

Heath Gunn writes about the world that most people cross the street to avoid looking at. A child born into violence. A teenager sleeping rough on his sixteenth birthday. The families left behind by bombs, by drunk drivers, by the slow grind of poverty. The people whose stories never make the follow-up report.

Upon This Spinning Rock is a collection of twenty-five poems that map the same emotional and moral territory as Gunn's crime fiction — the streets of DI Lomas Baxter, the world of Khan — but strip everything back to the bone. Direct, plainspoken, and unflinching, these poems ask the questions that polite society prefers not to answer.

Written over a decade of watching, listening, and refusing to look away, they are the work of a writer who has always understood that the distance between a statistic and a human being is the only distance that matters.