This collection of poems, written over the last twenty years, on scraps of paper, in stolen moments, sat in the car, stood in the kitchen with dinner not cooking, is an attempt to impose a semblance of order on a multitude of unruly thoughts and express an intensity of emotions often difficult to voice.

From pleasures and pain to betrayal and violent vengeance, in A Burning Twilit World, Kirsty. Venables writes about love and its darker sides.

Kirsty Venables has a lifelong love of words and languages and despite her best efforts now lives in a house with far too many books. She studied modern foreign languages at university (more books!) discovering how words shape our world and the way we experience it.

For many years she worked in education helping others learn another language or to gain confidence in using their own. Her first published work, A Burning Twilit World, is a collection of poems on sometimes difficult themes where the right words can be hard to find.