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Breaking Out: A poetic journey of discovery
We are excited to announce that Brian Hight’s first book of poetry will be published at the end of September 2026.
Breaking Out is Brian’s poetic journey of discovery.
For most of his life, Brian believed he simply couldn’t write poetry. Poetry belonged to other people — people who had a gift for words, an ability to express feelings and ideas in ways that he could never manage.
But eventually he discovered something unexpected.
It wasn’t that he couldn’t write poetry. He had simply convinced himself that he couldn’t.
The barrier was in his mind.
Once that barrier began to break down, the words started to come.
From words to poetry
What began almost accidentally became a journey into a form of writing Brian had spent much of his life avoiding.
Poetry gave him a different way to explore thoughts, experiences, questions and emotions. Sometimes the words came easily. Sometimes they surprised him. And sometimes a poem revealed something he hadn’t realised he was thinking or feeling.
Breaking Out brings together poems written along that journey.
They don’t follow a single theme or tell one continuous story. Instead, they reflect the different places that life takes us — love, faith, relationships, memories, emotions, doubt, discovery, ageing, joy, struggle and the questions that continue to shape who we are.
Some poems are thoughtful.
Some are playful.
Some are deeply personal.
And some may simply make you stop and think.
A different way of seeing life
Writing poetry changed the way Brian looked at the ordinary.
A thought that might once have passed unnoticed could become a poem. A memory could take on new meaning. An experience could be turned over and looked at from another angle.
Perhaps that is one of the gifts of poetry.
It slows us down.
It invites us to look again.
And sometimes, in finding the words to describe something, we discover something about ourselves.
Breaking out of the box
The title Breaking Out has a meaning beyond poetry.
It is about breaking out of the boxes we create for ourselves — the assumptions about what we can and cannot do, who we are, and what is possible.
For Brian, one of those boxes was the belief that he couldn’t write poetry.
Breaking out of it opened a door he never expected to walk through.
This book is the result.
Read it. Reflect on it. Discover your own meaning.
Poetry doesn’t always tell you what to think.
It can leave space for you to bring your own experiences, memories and emotions to the words.
A poem that means one thing to its author may mean something completely different to the person reading it.
That’s part of the joy of poetry.
Breaking Out invites you to come on the journey — to read the poems, pause over the words, and perhaps discover something of yourself along the way.
Breaking Out
Brian Hight’s first collection of poetry
Published September 2026
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