PAPERBACK 6" X 9" 123pp ISBN 970-1-326 -99667-3
‘This is transporting.
What a wonderful whirlwind of a book. Its
quite an achievement. Terrifically atmospheric..’
Heathcote
Williams
A poetic journal of a unique
journey full of great observations and heartfelt human feelings..’
Pete
Brown
Award winning Actor, Writer, Director, Teacher and
International Times’ Co-ordinator David Erdos’ new book of poetry is the
result of a week long residency at the sixth Babylon International Festival
of Arts and Culture in March 2017.
David was widely acclaimed by both the public and the leading Arab
poets, published in the leading Iraqi newspapers and a book of his poetry
has already been commissioned for publication across Eqypt and
Arabia.
Having never travelled to this troubled part of the
world, the book details David’s internal and external experiences as he goes
from initial dread to excitement at the prospect of visiting the supposed
birthplace of not only civilisation but life itself. David spent the
oncoming days, attending and appearing at the festival and capturing every
facet of the spiritual and danger infused situation, in poetry. On his
second day there, he met and fell in love with an award winning Persian
Poetess and after walking along the banks of the
Euphrates reading love poems she had inspired to her, the
beginnings of an almost filmic romance occurred. These details give the book
a unique appeal to avid readers of poetry and to those unaccustomed to it,
as the narrative and sequential nature of events draw the reader in to one
man’s humble journey of discovery and expectation.
The poet also forges connections with the master
musicians Ahmed Mukhtar and Ignacio Lusardi Monteverde and the world
reknowned academic and archeomusicologist, Professor Richard Dumbrill. In
this way love, politics, culture, history, friendship, society, cuisine and
even insect life are explored in poems that transport the reader and
transcend their forms to speak to anyone concerned with both the minutiae
and maximum that life can offer.
‘Out of his
travel notebooks, six days of impressions come pouring into the pages of
this book, a kind of fever-journal of dream and wonder, a sensual map of the
heart, a baedecker of love..’
Jeff Young
David Erdos is available for
interviews and events. For further information, please contact David
directly. Tel: 07936248497
Email: david.erdos@sky.com