Journey Description
Beautifully crafted, sensitive and enlightening, One Hundred Years of Ermintrude, is a breath of fresh air to the poetry arena. Drawing on the imaginative vitality of the magic-realist mode, the book tells the stories of 3 members of one family, presided over by the indomitable Ermintrude, condensing defining moments in each life into stanza form. The result is a highly evocative, affecting poem-story.
The eponymous opening tale of centenarian Ermintrude is recounted backwards, opening with the image of her wreath and ending with her mother s pregnancy, and establishes the probing questions about time and life that characterise the ensuing tales of her children, Tristan and Lucy.
The stories intertwine, musing on family, individuality, and mortality, whilst the prismatic writing bears endless re-listening.
Journey Tracks
100 Years of Ermintrude
25 Years of Tristan
65 Years of Lucy
5 Billion Years to The Cat
This was a short addendum I must have written well over 15 years ago. I include it here as a temporal tale but also as a technology demonstrator. It is narrated by my cloned meditation guide voice and augmented by an ambient track called Return to the Void. You can find the full ambient track in the Soulwaves Ambience album.
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