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In this dark and introspective poetic collection, Jonas Sværke explores the fragile boundary between thought and dissolution. Nightmare Fuel gathers unsettling reflections, fragmentary visions, and interior monologues that move through anxiety, memory, fear, and quiet dread. Rather than narrating events, the poems linger in states of mind where meaning erodes and certainty slips away.
Across these pages, language becomes unstable and impressionistic. Images recur and break apart. Thoughts loop, distort, and fade. What emerges is a portrait of consciousness under pressure, where the familiar turns strange and the self feels porous, threatened by its own imaginings.
Nightmare Fuel does not seek resolution or comfort. It invites the reader to remain inside unease, to witness the beauty and terror of thoughts left unchecked. The collection echoes the logic of nightmares themselves, not as spectacle, but as atmosphere, where fear is intimate, quiet, and deeply human.
For readers of contemporary poetry, psychological introspection, and experimental lyric forms, this is a work of restrained intensity and unsettling clarity.
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Author: Jonas Sværke
Language: English
Publication date: 2025
ISBN: 978-87-85353-17-7
Length: 10 pages (including front matter)
Format: Digital download (PDF)
Publisher: Sapientia Publishing
In this dark and introspective poetic collection, Jonas Sværke explores the fragile boundary between thought and dissolution. Nightmare Fuel gathers unsettling reflections, fragmentary visions, and interior monologues that move through anxiety, memory, fear, and quiet dread. Rather than narrating events, the poems linger in states of mind where meaning erodes and certainty slips away.
Across these pages, language becomes unstable and impressionistic. Images recur and break apart. Thoughts loop, distort, and fade. What emerges is a portrait of consciousness under pressure, where the familiar turns strange and the self feels porous, threatened by its own imaginings.
Nightmare Fuel does not seek resolution or comfort. It invites the reader to remain inside unease, to witness the beauty and terror of thoughts left unchecked. The collection echoes the logic of nightmares themselves, not as spectacle, but as atmosphere, where fear is intimate, quiet, and deeply human.
For readers of contemporary poetry, psychological introspection, and experimental lyric forms, this is a work of restrained intensity and unsettling clarity.
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Author: Jonas Sværke
Language: English
Publication date: 2025
ISBN: 978-87-85353-17-7
Length: 10 pages (including front matter)
Format: Digital download (PDF)
Publisher: Sapientia Publishing