And always in our ears was the sound of the ocean

[sovay]

Chanteys for the Fisherangels is now available from Papaveria Press.

You may remember I spoke of this project in the winter; I think it is one of the more numinous things I have been involved with. The book collects four poems inspired by James Yorkston's cover of Lal Waterson's "Midnight Feast": seajules' "The sky is the floor of an ocean," my own "The Coast Guard," asakiyume's "Invitation Refused," and cucumberseed's "Feather, Halo, Hook and Line," with introduction by nineweaving and photographs by me. I took them in Portland, Maine, where I grew up in the summers by the sea.



There are thirty-three copies, twenty-five of which are available for purchase. They are bound with linen, shells, and feathers, and the sea has worked on them. Go; study; pick one up from the sand and take it home. erzebet's work is something rich and strange.

Comments

[sovay]

(I would love to read them, but I don't have $50, alas!)

Three of the poems were previously published: "The sky is the floor of an ocean" in MindFlights #13, "Feather, Halo, Hook and Line" in Goblin Fruit #15, and "The Coast Guard" in Sirenia Digest #41 (of which back issues are available, contact humglum). "Invitation Refused" is original to the collection.

Alternately, maybe you could ask erzebet if it would be possible to work something out?

[ron-drummond.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. To have such extraordinary embodiment for and accompaniment to your words and photographs must be deeply gratifying.

[sovay]

To have such extraordinary embodiment for and accompaniment to your words and photographs must be deeply gratifying.

It makes me very happy. Thank you.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! That's very excellent.

[sovay]

Congratulations! That's very excellent.

Thank you! I am so looking forward to my contributor's copy.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! And I hope it reaches you swiftly.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Such beautiful work from all of you. Lal would have loved this book.

Nine

[sovay]

Lal would have loved this book.

I suppose we could send a copy to Waterson:Carthy.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

We could indeed.

Nine

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I received my copy yesterday, fresh from Yorkshire. I was almost afraid to open it, but not quite. It's a beautiful sea-change, from eyes to pearls and back again.

[sovay]

It's a beautiful sea-change, from eyes to pearls and back again.

I'm so glad! Thank you.