Winters Demon is the titular epic in Victor Venhuizen’s debut poetry collection. Rather than a common theme, it is a collection of stories and ideas that moves from an alternate origin of our four seasons through to depression and a day at the beach, to finally come to rest at the beckoning call of a warm bed on a cold day.

For Ezzie, life has always been like folding a thousand paper cranes: if one studies diligently, perseveres through the greatest of adversities (i.e. Blythe), and contributes to the greater scheme, all will be well in the end.

Blythe, on the other hand, would quickly get bored, crumple the paper up into a ball, declare it to be a planet stuck in a decaying orbit around a supermassive black hole and start whooshing it around your head in an ever-decreasing circle until it inevitably smashes ...