Opening Hours is Todd Swift's follow-up to his 2020 collection Spring In Name Only, launched as a birthday gift for his autistic godson Alex, to whom all profits are dedicated. 
Ranging across death, love, literature, relationships, media, music, food, nature, fear and hope, the poems confront mortality, contagion and human fragility while insisting on endurance and renewal. Swift's freewheeling, song-like line, indebted to Dylan as much as to Yeats and Geoffrey Hill, balances rhetorical argument with symbolic and visionary imagination, setting contemporary, sometimes vulgar imagery against an interior world of contemplation, doubt and spiritual questioning.