At once raw and skillful, painful and funny, personal and pervasive, the poems in Jump Scare dig deep into mental health, neurodivergence, grief, dreams, monstrosity, identity commodification, sexuality, pop culture, and queer consumer culture. This is a book that tackles isolation and loss head-on and thinks hard and with wry humour about how to position ourselves in this lonely, scary, compelling world.
Daniel Zomparelli Book order
Daniel Zomparelli is the founder of Poetry Is Dead magazine and the host of the podcast I'm Afraid That. His work focuses on exploring modern life through writing. He is dedicated almost exclusively to contemporary themes that appear in his creations. He is known for his unique perspective on the world.



- 2024
- 2018
Mal schreiend komisch, dann wieder tief traurig, aber immer überraschend: In diesen turbulenten, originell miteinander verwobenen Storys suchen Männer nach Liebe, klauen Büromaterial, verabreden sich über Grindr, backen Obstkuchen, lassen sich therapieren, haben Dreier mit Geistern und vor allem eines: Angst vor dem Glück. Zugleich überbordend und kühl, sarkastisch und einfühlsam beschreibt Daniel Zomparelli in seinem ersten Erzählband Männer am Rande des Nervenzusammenbruchs – ein tragikomisches Buch über Sehnsucht, flüchtigen Sex und dysfunktionale Beziehungen im Zeitalter von Selfies, Hashtags und Dating-Apps
- 2017
Everything Is Awful And You're A Terrible Person
- 201 pages
- 8 hours of reading
A disarming, tragicomic story collection about looking for true love in a cesspool of weird dysfunction and bad dates.