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CONDITION OF FIRE, by the Edinburgh poet JL Williams, inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses and written on the explosive Aeolian Isles, will be published by Shearsman Books of Exeter, England on January 15th of 2011. http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2011/williams.html http://jlwilliamspoetry.co.uk/ Ovid wrote his famous stories of change just before he was banished from his beloved Rome and after travelling and observing many diverse and vibrant landscapes. He may well have visited and was knowledgeable of the Aeolian Isles where volcanoes cast molten lava into turquoise seas, whipped by the winds of the god who made his home there. It was to these rapturous, Edenic and violently creative islands that JL Williams ventured to write the poems in this collection; poems inspired both directly by Ovid's tales and informing the new story that emerges from the old ... a post-apocalyptic vision of the earth where metamorphoses engender rebirth out of the ashen wasteland that humankind has made of the world. Ovid expressed the truth that to change is to survive, and this message erupts out of the poems in CONDITION OF FIRE, whose language and images strive to communicate in new ways the essential elements of myth, creation and the burning breath of being. _______________ CONDITION OF FIRE ... ISBN 13 : 9781848611450 ISBN 10 : 1848611455 Pre-order for 24% off, at ... http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781848611450/Condition-of-Fire For readers in the U.S. $10.65 For readers in Britain £6.71 For readers in Europe €7.62 Shipping is free anywhere in the world. _______________ CONDITION OF FIRE launches on ... 15 February 2011, London, England, Swedenborg Hall, 7:30 p.m. 26 February 2011, Edinburgh, Scotland, Scottish Poetry Library, 2:00 p.m. Everyone is welcome! _______________ With fiery regards, Séamas Cain http://seamascain-writernetwork.org ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
