Book Alert! Writing to a Raid Siren by Michael Roque

We are delighted to announce we have acquired WRITING TO A RAID SIREN, the debut poetry collection by award-winning writer Michael Roque.

Writing to a Raid Siren is a raw and haunting collection, written in the shadow of war, displacement, memory, and emotional survival. Moving between bomb shelters, sleepless apartments, collapsing relationships, hospitals of the soul, and cities reshaped by fear, these poems capture what it feels like to live through a world that no longer feels stable – and still search for tenderness within it.

With imagery that is cinematic, intimate, and profoundly human, Roque explores trauma, loneliness, faith, longing, identity, and the strange beauty that can still exist in fractured places. From air raid sirens over Israeli skies to private battles hidden behind ordinary routines, Writing to a Raid Siren is a collection about surviving psychologically as much as physically.

These are poems for anyone who has ever felt suspended between destruction and hope, drifting through chaos while trying to remain human.

About Michael Roque

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Michael Roque began writing poetry and prose while studying at Pasadena City College. He has been based in Tel Aviv since 2013. His work has appeared in literary journals including North Dakota Quarterly, The Queen’s Review, The Roanoke Rambler, Poetry Super Highway and BlazeVOX.

WRITING TO A RAID SIREN is out now and available on our website and all good bookshops.