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Here’s What Happens When You Enter a Black Hole

Rhys Owain Williams

Here’s What Happens When You Enter a Black Hole

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This book will be released in October 2026.

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In Here’s What Happens When You Enter a Black Hole, Rhys Owain Williams explores modern masculinity, mental health, and the evolving dynamics of family. These are poems that look at the legacies that shape us – reflecting upon love, loss and lineage with a raw openness.

The tender complexities of fathers and sons are considered alongside the challenges of contemporary life and the fragility of the natural world. Elsewhere, the lines between our own realities and the virtual realities of video games and YouTube videos blur. The AI of a workout app becomes sentient, an exclusive members’ club is created from phrases from spam emails and Microsoft’s much-maligned Office Assistant ‘Clippy’ helps to write a letter to a dying friend.

In this, his second poetry collection, Williams captures the surreal and the deeply personal with vivid imagery and heartfelt introspection. Here's What Happens When You Enter a Black Hole is a celebration of the ordinary and extraordinary, honouring the stories we inherit and those we forge ourselves. Like the gravitational pull of a black hole, these poems draw us toward the truths at the heart of our shared human experience – revealing the light that emerges from even the deepest voids.

 

 

Praise for That Lone Ship:

‘Wide-ranging and intelligent, heartfelt and elegant – Rhys Owain Williams explores loss, love and a Swansea boyhood in poems that surprise and amaze.’ – Joe Dunthorne

 

 

Rhys Owain Williams is the author of the poetry collection That Lone Ship. His writing has been published in magazines including Gutter, Magma, The Aftershock Review and Poetry Wales – who recently named him as a ‘poet to watch’ – and anthologies from Arachne Press and Broken Sleep Books. Rhys has collaborated on artistic commissions with Art in Site, Swansea University, Nationwide Building Society and NHS Wales. A Hay Festival Writer at Work, his poetry has been translated into Welsh, Greek and Latvian. Rhys lives in Swansea, Wales, and Here’s What Happens When You Enter a Black Hole is his second collection.