Sudden Seances

For women learning to turn their ghosts into power.Sudden Seances conjures a world where memory hums like a spirit in the walls. It is a collection about loss, grief, and yearningbut at its core, it is about the haunting nature of the human experience. These poems call out beyond the veil, traversing the countless everyday rituals we use to summon the deadwhether through memories, objects, or the quiet ache of longing for something thats long been lost.Delving into all thats said and unsaid between hello and goodbye, Sudden Seances explores the ways we continue to reach out long after a connection has closed. Awads poems linger in the spaces where the living and the remembered overlap, where ghostsboth literal and emotionalrefuse to fade. Through ruminations on nostalgia, grief, and identity, this collection reflects on how the past never truly lets us go, and how we, too, are often unwilling to let whats gone stay buried.