Nedaseungreda: Spiral

Thursday, 23 June 2011

Spiral

Whispers within the smoke,

drops of harmony,

that gentle patter of city lights.

Footsteps part the silence

our cheeks bed beneath a galaxy of memories

we topple toward sleep.

Tomorrow's rings smote the surface

and so finally another spiral meets.

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Part I

An oversized rocking chair, wood slowly splintering as if the emigration of a thousand tiny spines. They rise up, out from within its heavy arms and like flames their flickering reaches for the window. Each one a dusty tear blurring its single eye. In order to watch he tilts his own head, doubt blinded by emotion as they begin to spiral toward the black glass. Lids heavy, his slit of concious drawn to a close by the cacophony of what formally had been such seasonal tides. And so this winter hope's grin springs from the warmth of bulbs, the spread of his desk fallen icy cold. Fingers skate before him and yet still those memories sing, twist his ear lobes first east and then west. As always, the pendulum swings.

Part II

Another moon chimes, the attic silence of old unfolding as if a new born flock of wings, air undulating as their limbs slip from the darkness. So once again the sands of time begin to decend, each grain drawn from the crest of mourning, herself a falling lament. Flakes of white, her toes reach for the crumpled yellow canvas, narrow eyes drawn against the tumbling shafts of light. Her lashes palms, their silhouttes stencils, petals enveloped by the eternal blue hearth she waits, for the sun's incandescent ashes to curl around her limbs, begin to swirl within the plams of her cupped hands.

About Circle Time:

A collection of sketches: simple and honest, these poems seek to placate experience and depict the eternity beyond our landscape.

Written by Sam Rawlings, and with illustrations by Dan Prescott, Circle Time is an exploration into the nature of human experience. It focuses upon the way our emotional lives spiral as we grow older, the ways in which the echoes of our past are carried through time.

"A keen sensitivity to the relation between sound and meaning." ~ Sabotage

Click here for a full introducton to Circle Time.

About The Book of Apertures

Set against the backdrop of our own existence, these pages house a collection of stories...
...a collection of stories that peel back the covers of that other world, that world of emotions, forces and things, which have since the creation of time been forever lapping upon the shores of our own.

For the last two years our collective group of young, emergent writers and artists, have been hard at work. Arising from the relative obscurity that encircles each of our lives, this book has been born quite simply,out of our shared passion for storytelling.

The central theme of the book focuses on exploring those unexplainable elements of life that one time or another, affect us all. As children particularly, we have all used our imaginations to conjure up explanations for the things that we didn't quite understand, and so, in creating this book, the writers and artists were asked little more than to develop this idea.

Therefore, with an emphasis upon collaboration, containing fifteen short stories and nine poems by fourteen different writers, exhibiting forty-one pieces of original artwork by nine different artists, The Book of Apertures represents a series of explorations into the enigmatic nature of life, as viewed through each contributors personal aperture.

"In a time when publishers are taking fewer and fewer risks on unknown writers, Lazy Gramophone are to be applauded for giving their collective a chance to shine.” - Litro Magazine

"A wonderful environment of ideas and imaginings - The Lazy Gramophone group as a collective have demonstrated a remarkable and inspiring ethos throughout and their willingness to provide a means of expression is second to none.” - Amelias Magazine

"A Handsomely produced Book (The Book of Apertures).” - Philip Pullman

"I love Lazy Gramophone, you're doing terrific work.” - Terri Windling

Full book reviews can be found here:

* Amelias Magazine
* Litro Magazine

Click here for a full introduction to The Book of Apertures.

About Skeletons in the Closet

Featuring my short story Hotchiwitchi (which was wonderfully illustrated by Rima Staines), this booklet was the first of the Lazy Gramophone Shorts Series. 'Skeletons in the Closet' brings six writers and six illustrators together in collaborative beauty. Printed in a limited edition of 60 with a unique letter pressed cover and high quality digital interior these booklets encompass the theme of hidden secrets in an original and creative manner.

Featuring the work of Sorana Santos, Dan Prestige, Kevin Pocock, Carl Laurence, Maria Drummey, Mia Douglass, Alexander Aspinall, Maria Vladimirova, Jo Tedds, Ghin Liew, Sam Rawlings & Rima Staines.

Click here to read about the production process of the letter pressed cover.

Click here to find out how to subscribe to our Lazy Gramophone Shorts series.

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Thursday, 23 June 2011

Spiral

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