Katarina Grabowsky

The Mystic Abyss

Featuring illustrations by Alice Stewart (@TishArt)

The Mystic Abyss aches with longing as its 44 featured poems explore the awakenings of desire; the rewards and regrets of connection, the depths of loss, the ecstasies of a moment, and pieces denoting both the struggle and acceptance of learning how to weather the emotional seasons one encounters within this world.

"A wholly mature collection of loss and isolation for one so young, yet with a quiet undercurrent of hope throughout. The poems stand like carved but age-worn statuary over an ancient grave where the voices of long-dead wordsmiths quietly whisper, only to be heard and venerated by a young writer who delivers to us poetry honouring centuries past." - Steven Kosrel, M.A. in Creative Writing

"Poetry is usually something I read sparingly and over longer periods of time. Not this book. I devoured it in less than twenty four hours. The poetry contained in this short collection is wholly captivating. Every poem is filled with beauty, hope, pain or some combination of all of these. I marked the pages with the poems I loved — and by the end, nearly every poem was on that list. At the last poem, you wish there was more. This is a collection that could effortlessly be read again and again and one would never tire from it. Words don’t do half of these poems justice, but the closest one that comes to it —stunning." - Goodreads review from reader, Olivia.