A book for those who’ve crawled through the dark and dared to hope anyway.
Waterloo Dawn is not a collection—it’s a resurrection. It’s a reckoning for anyone who has ever drowned in love, spun through addiction, knelt in grief, whispered to madness, or tried to scrape god from the floor of a motel bathroom. It is the debut collection of Colin Dawson, and it refuses to ask for permission.
For over two decades, Dawson has written from the edge of the abyss and the altar of devotion. His poems carry the rawness of confession, the elegance of formal lyricism, and the emotional architecture of a cathedral built out of broken light. He doesn’t write to impress. He writes to survive—and to reach those who never thought anyone saw them.
This is poetry that bleeds.
That sings.
That forgives, even as it burns.
From the viral intimacy of “I’d Wish for Death Together” to the storm-scarred beauty of “Homeward Now,” every line in Waterloo Dawn moves with the weight of lived truth. It’s not crafted to follow the trends—it’s built to endure.
Already, readers across the globe have begun translating Dawson’s poems into Hindi, Japanese, and Spanish. Over 8,000 followers have found fragments of themselves in his words. Critics have called the book “a love letter to survival” and “a generational voice rising without apology.”
This is your invitation.
Not to read poetry—
But to be changed by it.
Colin Dawson writes at the threshold—between love and ruin, devotion and destruction, faith and the abyss.
Based in Las Vegas, Dawson has written over 700 pages of poetry across two decades, but Waterloo Dawn is his first public offering. His voice, honed through addiction, madness, heartbreak, and spiritual longing, merges classical lyricism with brutal honesty. His signature style often employs ABCB rhyme, layered metaphor, and emotional pacing that both haunts and heals.
Influenced by poets like Neruda, Longfellow, and Bukowski, Dawson’s work has already begun to resonate globally—translated by readers into Japanese, Hindi, and Spanish, and quoted like scripture in online poetry circles. He is not a writer of performance or persona. He is a writer of truth.
Colin Dawson’s poems have been featured on international podcasts, in private collections, and on street walls in cities he’s never been to. He lives in the quiet shadows of the American West and creates from the silence most people try to forget.
To create poetry that captures the raw, unspoken truths we all carry beneath the surface.
To reach those who feel unseen, offering words that both wound and heal with honest light.
To build a body of work that endures beyond trends, speaking to the timeless ache of being human.
“A love letter to survival. A cathedral built out of ash.”
This is not a debut—it’s a declaration. Waterloo Dawn is a devastating, luminous collection that chronicles the journey from chaos to clarity, from addiction to absolution, from heartbreak to the tender violence of love that won’t let go.
With emotional intensity reminiscent of Pablo Neruda and lyrical command that echoes the great romantics, Colin Dawson wields poetic form like a scalpel—cutting through illusion, memory, and longing. These are poems of blood and spirit, of velvet and flame. They do not plead for sympathy; they demand witness.
Across fifty poems, Dawson delivers intimate elegies, brutal confessions, and moments of radiant beauty that feel both timeless and urgently now. Waterloo Dawn is for anyone who’s ever loved too hard, lost too much, or lived with the ache of being fully awake in a broken world.
Waterloo Dawn is a brutal and beautiful invitation to face what you’ve buried and feel what you’ve forgotten. Pre-order your copy, read a poem, or step inside the circle—your story starts here.
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