Timothy Thornton describes Candles and Water as 'a queer pillow book: a document of wreckage, haunting, and survival.'
This collection is made from disparate elements – fictions and diaries, dreams and lists, lies and ghost stories – which crystallise around a single voice, by way of healing from grief and recovery from addiction.
Timothy Thornton is a writer and musician who has published eleven books of poetry with small presses and appears in Volume 2 of the new Penguin Modern Poets series.