Category: Book of the month

At Old Scratch Press, we know Anthony Doyle first and foremost as a poet.

A writer of precision. Of restraint. Of lines that do more than they seem to at first glance.

That sensibility does not disappear when he moves into prose. It deepens.

In Hibernaculum, Doyle brings that same attention to language and silence into a speculative world shaped by human hibernation. The result is a novel that feels, at times, like an extended meditation. A work that unfolds deliberately, asking the reader not just to follow a story, but to sit inside it.

This is not a departure from his poetry. It is an expansion of it.

The same questions are here. Identity. Time. What it means to leave and return. What it means to remain.

For those who have read Anthony’s poetry with us, Hibernaculum offers a chance to experience that voice working at a different scale. For those who have not yet encountered his work, this is a striking place to begin.

For a limited time, the Kindle and Nook editions of Hibernaculum are available for 99¢.

You can learn more here.