From the publisher:

Too Much Night is a remarkable debut collection whose roots stem from the deeply personal but whose scope is universal, offering a reflection on alienation, the duality of nostalgia and the lights of discovery; about the awareness that something is missing and the endless search for a name.

Born from lived experience, Too Much Night was written as a response to Laurence Levy-Atkinson’s collapse into and return from the depths of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, something he was unaware he had been suffering his entire life and whose eventual diagnosis was nothing short of a revelation.

Distinctive, conversational, and with a dash of humour, these poems chart a course of encroaching darkness and slow recovery, building towards a resounding expression of acceptance and hope. Much more than an autopsy of struggle however, Too Much Night is an attempt to reconcile the absurdity of the natural world, a return to a coastal childhood where missing pieces were always just out of reach, and a full-throated hymn to the power of names.