[11/01/25] Zdeb, Nicole Alston: The End of Welcome

Airlie Press, paperback

Publication Date: November 1, 2025

Publisher Marketing: The End of Welcome sinks a blade into the loam and crust of human experience to unearth fresh layers of feeling and meaning. With wit and wordplay that both suture and transcend time, these singularly voiced poems travel underground and underwater through intimate landscapes to mysteriously surface in the universal. By turns comic, absurdist, and poignant, this collection holds themes of grief, resilience, and joy as a shell held to the ear holds the sonic image of the sea, as the heart holds the fallout of a suicide, and the body holds defiant against and bends to the machinations of progress.