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The Never Was

The Never Was

Gregson, Tyler Knott

Hardcover

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $23.00

ISBN10: 1771684216
ISBN13: 9781771684217
Publisher: Central Avenue Poetry
Published: Sep 23 2025
Pages: 176
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.30 Depth: 8.46
Language: English
A poetic celebration embracing our unfinished, imperfect, and authentic selves.

The Never Was is a deeply personal return from bestselling poet Tyler Knott Gregson. Known for his intimate typewritten verse, Gregson turns inward with raw honesty, reflecting on identity, diagnosis, and the quiet beauty in the incomplete.

Prompted by a late-in-life autism diagnosis, Gregson revisits a series of poetic fragments--unfinished lines once cast aside--that now reveal themselves as essential expressions of his neurodivergent experience. Interwoven with new poems, these pieces form a deeply human tapestry of vulnerability, self-discovery, and grace.

This is a book for anyone who has felt unseen, misunderstood, or like they didn't quite fit. The Never Was is a celebration of the imperfect, a testament to the healing power of art, and a reminder that even the fragments can hold a whole world.

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