Unsongs: Volume 1

“This is what I need in my life right now. Hart's poetry comes at you like a hammer against the fragile tin sheet of existence. Bang. Bang. Bang. Already a master lyricist, he wraps smoldering thoughts and feelings around each word... like a sympathetic blanket or a spiritual threat.”

— John Bowie, author of Untethered, editor at Bristol Noir.

“Hart makes a strong statement against the self-absorbed, easy answer of pop songs. ‘Unsongs Volume 1’ is challenging and satisfying, deep and dark, showing the full probative power of poetry.”

— Gerald So, The Five-Two: Crime-Poetry Weekly

While his verses have largely taken form in song lyrics for the past twenty-five years, UNSONGS Vol. 1 is Gabriel Hart's first proper collection of poetry. He offers a thesis that the song and poem have unfortunately become two separate entities like ‘a de-evolution of culture when they should have stayed one and the same thing,’ before he lets loose with subversive abandon, allowing these thirty poems to wail for themselves.