Odd Hour | Tomas Unger | Poetry
Forthcoming in March 2026: Tomas Unger’s debut collection of poems, Odd Hour.
In Odd Hour, Tomas Unger creates a luminous cartography of memory and witness, where sleepwalking children navigate hotel corridors and chess players hover between move and possibility. These poems inhabit spaces in flux — airports between night and morning, museums where ancient figures still breathe, the moment before a piece touches the board — finding profound beauty in states of suspension and transition.
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$25.00
Description
Odd Hour, Tomas Unger
$25.00
ISBN: 978-1-968274-03-0
Fine Softcover; 100+ pages; 5” x 7.5”
Publication Date: March 17, 2026
Summary
In Odd Hour, Tomas Unger creates a luminous cartography of memory and witness, where sleepwalking children navigate hotel corridors and chess players hover between move and possibility. These poems inhabit spaces in flux — airports between night and morning, museums where ancient figures still breathe, the moment before a piece touches the board — finding profound beauty in states of suspension and transition.
Unger’s voice moves with equal grace through intimate family portraits and historical reckonings, from his great-grandfather’s encounter with Halley’s comet to the Ukrainian famine’s wandering musicians. Whether capturing a tennis match that stretches past midnight or a pianist learning to play with one hand, these poems locate the sacred in the everyday and the everyday in extremity.
With remarkable formal control and emotional precision, Odd Hour reveals how we orient ourselves not by what is fixed. This is poetry of profound humanity and startling grace.
Author
Tomas Unger is a poet and teacher. His essays and poems have appeared in The Threepenny Review, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, and The Yale Review. He lives in New York.
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Literary Editors and Reviewers:
If you would like to request an advance reading copy of Tomas Unger’s Odd Hour, please contact us directly.
