If I Were a Ghost is a poetry book that brings text and illustration into a shared, interdependent space. The poems and visual works unfold together, shaping a single narrative and emotional landscape in which neither element serves as decoration for the other.
The illustrations function as parallel poetic voices, extending the atmosphere, rhythm, and meaning of the texts, while the poems respond to and echo the visual imagery. Together, they create an intimate, immersive reading experience that moves between language and image, presence and absence, fragility and transformation
Author
Settimia
Moments are captured vividly, and through rhythm and rhyme, sharpness is bent into tenderness. Settimia’s poetry is about finding safety in nature and exploring all the feelings you can encounter when you seem to dissolve into mist. The desire to exist between elusive and illusion colours each poem with a different dreamy hue. Time takes on playful forms, revealing the lines of a pure sunrise and being disfigured in love. The words transport you to the feelings of a person living on the verge of disappearing; as if a ghost.
