mythology mechanic

Title: mythology mechanic
Author: Krystle Herdy
Publication Date: 30 July 2026
Category: Poetry
Paperback: (203 x 123mm, 90 pages)
ISBN
Print: 978-1-7636892-8-2
Ebook:978-1-7636892-9-9

he told me
the best place for a broken heart
is the bottom of a shoebox
you keep in the back of the cupboard
and come back to every so often just to
chisel off pieces to hand out to strangers
as a ‘this could happen to you,’
like the warnings on the back of cigarette cartons.

In this fierce and tender collection, Krystle Herdy maps the landscapes of desire, memory, and selfhood with unflinching honesty. Each poem is a raw nerve—pulsing, intimate, and incandescent—exploring love’s fragility, the weight of time, and the strange beauty that is heartbreak.

Utilising electric imagery, and from confessional whispers to the surreal, these poems capture the quiet explosions of feeling that shape our most human moments. mythology mechanic is poetry that lingers, latches on, and refuses to let go.