Books
Red Ogre Review Books
A day planner like no other, surely this mystical book was created in an alternate dimension. You can only obtain it by riding Pegasus all the way to a jewel-encrusted planet. Unicorn Death Moon: Day Planner delicately guides us through the fermented sadness of a wounded heart. Burning through the pain, Cahill helps us reach bright stars and see light on the other side.
Corinne Halbert, Acid Nun
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Unicorn Death Moon: Day Planner is what art looks like today. It offers a riveting, wholly unironic portrait of the soul in action. I find nearly every page to be uniquely meaningful. The book explores the “eff” in ineffable. It’s a great work. Shockingly good.
Matthew Jesse Jackson, The Experimental Group
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I found Cahill’s poetry neighborly and, dare I say, cozy despite its darker themes of depression and survival during doubt and fear. The thirteen poems collected within sidle up to you with wit and honesty, and invite your participation and introspection. This is one of my favorite types of personal poetry, and it’s well-suited to journaling or planning as a companion activity. It makes a reader feel invited to open up and write along.
No matter how magical or beautiful life can be, it’s also often confusing and exhausting. Cahill’s poetry never gives up hope, though. He recognizes the depths, but also lets the light filter through the layers to help the reader see the promise of the future:
They call it dark / But you and I both know / that is only the best place to see the stars and where else we might go.
Julie Reeser, The Future Fire
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Zachary Cahill’s Unicorn Death Moon: Day Planner is definitely meant to be read, written, and written in nightly by its reader. A cyclical loop, calendrical, like the phases and phrases that loom in the moon. His unicorns are gorgeous and as real as anything that has ever existed in pictures and minds. Their sweeping lines, flowing manes, waves of watercolor washes bounce and rear up and gallop alongside the skull they haunt. Like the moon, they reveal his artistic dark side and bring it to glowing life in words and images.
W.J.T. Mitchell, Mental Traveler
Award Nominations
Voted #2 in The Chicago Reader 2023 Holiday Gift Guide for gifts by Chicago artists and creatives.
2024 Elgin Award nominee for an SFF poetry chapbook.