Poets and Poems: Atticus and "The Dark Between Stars"

Atticus is a name with a Greek-Latin pedigree. It means “of Attica,” the region around Athens. We would translate it as “Athenian” today. The Roman orator Cicero wrote a series of letters to a good friend named Atticus, and the letters are one of the main reasons why we know as much as we do today about the orator. Much closer to our own time, the name gained a bit of fame from the character of Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, becoming a popular name for parents to give to boys. That is, until the sequel, Go Set the Watchman, was published, in which Atticus was something less heroic. 

It also happens to be the pen name of an anonymous poet, about whom little is known. He’s described as a storyteller and author. He’s published three collections of poetry: Love Her Wild: Poems (2017), The Dark Between Stars (2018), and The Truth About Magic: Poems (2019). His author description on his books says he chooses to remain anonymous “to remind himself to always write what he feels instead of what he thinks he should feel.” He’s reported to have been born in Vancouver in British Columbia, and he “loves the ocean, the desert, whisky, and playing with words.”

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