In the poetry cycle, Songs of the Underland, Kurt Newton sets out to describe a nether world of nightmare and shadow where a kind of spiritual penance is meted out. In this hellish landscape of sin and forgiveness, Newton beautifully conveys one man's quest for redemption with an elegance of language both sumptuously precise and brilliantly lyrical.

KURT NEWTON is the author of nine collections of poetry. His dark verse has appeared in the pages of Weird Tales, Strange Horizons, Dreams and Nightmares, Spectral Realms and Cosmic Horror Monthly, and in the anthologies Untimely Frost, Death's Garden, Darkling's Beasts and Brews, Putrescent Poems, Burning Love & Bleeding Hearts, Infected, and Trickster's Treats 4.