[spectre] ... to change is to survive

[Séamas Cain]

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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.

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CONDITION OF FIRE ...

ISBN 13 : 9781848611450

ISBN 10 : 1848611455

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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!

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With fiery regards,

Séamas Cain
http://seamascain-writernetwork.org