In their highly anticipated follow-up to Octopus Magic, Ellis James invites readers once again into the vivid, lyrical world of their poetry, where the boundaries between the ordinary and the extraordinary dissolve. Rainbow in the Room is a collection that pulses with the complex beauty of human experience-love, loss, identity, and transformation-woven together with the same grace and rawness that defined their first collection.
Here, James crafts poems that both illuminate and question the spaces we inhabit, exploring the silent moments where beauty and pain coexist. Through vivid imagery and quiet revelation, they give voice to the everyday magic found in the most unexpected places-capturing the flicker of hope in a fleeting glance, the quiet strength in solitude, and the untold stories held in the stillness of a room.
With each line, Rainbow in the Room reflects James's evolution as a poet, taking readers on a journey where the visible and invisible collide, and where moments of joy are never far from moments of sorrow. It is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit, and a reminder that even in the darkest times, there is color-if only we are brave enough to see it.
Rainbow in the Room is a celebration of life's complexities, a radiant exploration of what it means to be truly alive.
