• HOLY NOWHERE •
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Author: Nick Power
Design & Publication: erbacce Press
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Publication Date: Dec 2015
Format: Paperback (B)
Perfect Bound
Printing: Digital
Category: Poetry
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ISBN: 9781907878770
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Out of stock
£7.95
…and before you can say
“Holy Nowhere!”
“Cardinal Heenan!”
“St. John Bosco!”
“Archbishop Blanche!”
normal service is resumed…
~ • Synopsis • ~
Nick Power says…
“The collection is a view of a city from a high vantage point over the river. Much of the work is set at night high up on construction cranes or warehouses and electricity substations. A recurring symbol in the book as seen on the cover, is the pharmacy crucifix. It crops up in a few of the pieces to represent how the cult of religion and the cult of drugs are essentially the same. The work concerns heightened emotion about love, death and hopelessness – but in a way a teenager would feel. Imagine a teenage paean to love and death, like S.E Hinton’s The Outsiders set in a Northwest England shit-town.”
Nick Power resides in Hoylake, Merseyside and is a member of the band The Coral. Holy Nowhere is his second collection of poetry.
~ • Praise for Holy Nowhere • ~
The collection of poems, called Holy Nowhere build on Power’s previous work, Small Town Chase, which chronicled growing up in a provincial town in the north of England.
Liverpool Echo
“The whole thing segues into a hazy, at times boozy, hymn to the tumult of life. It’s hard not to get swept away.”
Sonder Magazine