Just These Four Walls

"Within these four walls, memory becomes an inescapable purgatory."Just These Four Walls is a fiercely raw, non-linear poetry collection that strips back the synthetic layers of domestic safety to expose a time-bending psychological thriller in verse. Darren Hobson documents a home transformed from physical shelter into a living organism that absorbs human trauma, generational curses, and secret sins.Ten years ago, a volatile romance ended in an unspeakable tragedy at a fairground rollercoaster. Today, that nightmare bleeds into the present through ancient ley lines and supernatural static. Trapped inside a decaying house that physically rebuilds itself whenever he tries to burn it down, a reclusive narrator is forced into a purgatorial echo chamber where he must confront the vengeful, lingering spirit of the girl he lost across the chasm of death.Do not expect polite, sanitized art. In this uncompromising volume of rhythmic free verse, linear time breaks down entirely as the dark architecture of the Hobsonverse pulses beneath the floorboards. Driven by an incantatory, hypnotic cadence that uses repetitive refrains to mirror psychological spiraling, Just These Four Walls reads like a dark, storyboarded cinematic script. It layers macabre violence and medieval witchcraft with deeply human, deadpan reflections on body image, aging flaws, and the quiet indignities of everyday survival. This is an unfiltered, visceral spoken-word transmission from an independent counter-culture voice that refuses to compromise.