Whiskey and the Winter Wind is not a departure from Whiskey and the Autumn Wind-it is the reckoning that follows. The same soul remains, seated at the same worn wooden table, a glass still within reach, but the world beyond the window has shifted. Where autumn once moved with the bittersweet rhythm of release, winter settles in with a deliberate stillness, stripping everything to its bare and honest form.
In this collection, Richard White leans into the cold clarity that only silence can bring. These poems inhabit the long nights after betrayal, where absence speaks louder than words and memory becomes both refuge and ache. The warmth of whiskey contrasts the chill of what lingers unsaid, creating a space where grief, reflection, and endurance quietly coexist.
This is a book of aftermath-of what remains when footsteps fade without farewell. Stark, intimate, and unflinching, Whiskey and the Winter Wind captures the fragile balance between breaking and surviving, offering readers a place to sit in the quiet and recognize their own reflection in the glass.