<p><em>This is What was Next</em> is a collection of contemporary poetry that binds a profound love and grief for the natural world with considerations of atheism exploring and ultimately celebrating the freedom and healing to be found in self-honesty.&nbsp;McKay delights in sudden leaps between hallucinatory lyricism and meticulously patterned language games; between the starkly personal and tongue-and-cheek musings of artistic self-promotion.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>