Reels Wrapped, Scrolls Unsealed
January 7th, 2026 — After a year largely surrendered to celluloid phantoms, Jono Borden returns—ink-stained, half-electrified—to the page. Much of last year was consumed by executive producing Lightning in the Veins, his forthcoming biopic of Lord Byron: a film he has written, his very own Ritualistic Pictures, Inc. is producing, and one whose arteries he has spent several years excavating through research, obsession, and communion with the dead. Byron demanded devotion. Borden obliged. Poetry, patient as a grave, waited.
Now it claws its way back into the light.
Borden is pleased—grimly, gleefully—to finally release a long-delayed backlog of new poetry: thirty links to new poems, completing what was originally scheduled to appear online last year before cinema bared its teeth and claimed his hours. These works arrive not as afterthoughts, but as revenants—texts written in parallel with filmmaking, fed on nights of occult study, erotic delirium, historical vertigo, and romantic catastrophe.
Readers can expect familiar poisons: transgressive lyricism, ritual symbolism, gothic æsthetics, experimental structures, and the ever-faithful marriage of desire and dread. The verse has not softened in Borden’s absence; if anything, it has learned new cruelties from Byron’s shadow, new rhythms from lightning, new jokes from the gallows.
The backlog is now open. The vault unsealed. Thirty doors, all creaking at once.
Enter at your own risk—and enjoy the delay.
☞ All new verses and honoured favourites can be glimpsed by consulting the Diabologue, Borden’s online magazine where he haunts the æther with his otherworldly poetry. Check back often for his entire archive to be revived, eventually breathing new life into everything he has written since beginning sinning by first penning his unrepentant confessions in 2003.
☞ Titles now available include: “Vox Nihili,” “Venus in Scorpio (VII, 12°26′),” “Swallowing Bullets,” “This Isn’t a Ritual,” “You’ll Know Me in Your Marrow,” “Dust On Our Tongues,” “Decay Into Sleep Swiftly,” “Orgasm in an Asylum,” “The Devil Enters Adam’s Lips,” “Bruises From the Jewels,” “The Way You Occur in Winter,” “Accidents That Never Happened,” “To Move Beyond the Mirror’s Edge,” “Andromeda Adams,” “A Relative Stranger,” “Malted Milks Too Thick For a Straw,” “Approach to Sleep,” “Petals Never Trembled,” “In Loud Water,” “Closer to Murder Than to Love,” “Invitation to a Contradiction,” “Walking Into a Lawsuit,” “Obsidian Aura,” “Thunder-Smitten,” “De Civitate Angelorum,” “R.I.P. Status,” “A Confession in Wet Cement,” “Small Sorceries Enlarged by Loss,” “Over Corpse Roads,” and “Don’t Choke in the Orchard.”
☞ Of the 120 poems Borden had originally scheduled to appear last year, the remaining 90 which were postponed are soon to surface, bolstered by a more intimate firsthand knowledge—this time around—of his withered hero’s immortal touch, carrying forward an antiheroic torch history never extinguished.
Brace yourself.
