'G-d, Sleep, and Chaos is a prayer of thanks for a broken world.
'Alan Fyfe’s debut collection employs a core of Jewish philosophy to explore themes of love, metaphysics, the self-destructive impulse, trauma, and the transcendent. With a boisterous affection for all things absurd and liminal and a bristling loyalty to working class aesthetics, G-d, Sleep, and Chaos includes poems that swing from visceral to hilarious across seven sections, and a range of forms, to ask how we might come by gratitude, and the peace of silence, in our bleakest moments. G-d, Sleep, and Chaos is a collection for the questing mind and the wanting spirit.' (Publication summary)
'There were three things that took my attention before I had even cracked this book, as I held it in my hand and turned it this way and that. Firstly, there was no author name or title on the frontispiece. Unusual. Even rare. Instead, a cool, glimmering art work (oil on canvas) of a snail shell by the visual artist Phil Day, that extends onto the back cover. Or is it a snail shell? The title Her No. 2, 2023 gives no clue. I do not know what this enigmatic shape may contain.' (Introduction)
'There were three things that took my attention before I had even cracked this book, as I held it in my hand and turned it this way and that. Firstly, there was no author name or title on the frontispiece. Unusual. Even rare. Instead, a cool, glimmering art work (oil on canvas) of a snail shell by the visual artist Phil Day, that extends onto the back cover. Or is it a snail shell? The title Her No. 2, 2023 gives no clue. I do not know what this enigmatic shape may contain.' (Introduction)
