Postcards from Ragnarok

Using the icy tales of Norse Mythology is one thing, but to link them so passionately to the warmth of love and the malaise of modern life is something only the most delicate of writers can achieve. With searing honesty and dark humor, travel to the time of dragons - both frighteningly real and, perhaps scarier still, those that dwell deep within the recesses of the mind.- Stuart Buck, EIC of The Bear Creek Gazette "Listen - you can hear it coming" Every poem in Postcards from Ragnarok crackles and simmers with the threat of the end of the world. Katy Naylor perfectly captures all the different ways terror can dog our daily life - the ever-present temptation to let everything you love go up in flames. Katy's writing is both magical and relatable, reaching out to us from the page, bringing a flicker of hope in the form of "life inscribed in a book". - Judith Kingston, author of Mother is the Name for God In Nordic mythology, Ragnarok is a series of events that will lead to doomsday and damnation. Katy Naylor's debut chapbook, postcards from Ragnarok, offers snippets of her take on this ending world, weather in the shape of climate crisis, a toxic relationship, a looming death. Naylor's chapbook offers a modern twist on Norse mythology, and all her poems are based on gods, creatures and places from the Poetic Edda. The result is beautiful and powerful and jumps out of the page to grab throats or punch guts, leaving the reader full of emotions and questions they didn't think they had. Naylor writes poetry that mixes the ancient and the modern, the infinitely large and the infinitely small, a love and repulsion for life and the human race, whole universes packed in short verses, magical choice of words that bring in a philosophical and metaphysical edge, living the reader mesmerised. BF Jones - Five Years