A UNIQUE new book of international poetry is published today (30 April 2018).
While global warming, poverty, pollution, homelessness, the refugee crisis and warfare dominate world news, a group of global poets have turned a spotlight on the frailty and hope of humanity.
Their book: LUMINANCE – Words for a World Gone Wrong is published worldwide today by Amazon.
The writers include a mum of four, a 16 year-old school student, a haiku writer, a freedom fighter, a 62-year-old grandfather, a modern day minstrel, a novelist and a self-proclaimed ‘mystic’.
Their poetry is breath-taking in its style, its range and its subject matter, assembled in categories marked: Darkness and Light, Heaven and Hell, Love and Theft, and War and Peace.
The writers live and work 11,000 miles apart, across 18 time zones, in Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Palestine, Japan, England, Scotland and six different states of the USA. Their poetry displays the diversity of their home cities and cultures and form the unique nature of the book.
The writers of LUMINANCE are:
Austie M Baird is a 32-year-old mother raising four young children in rural eastern Oregon, USA.
Sophie Bowns, 25, from Cumbria in England, is a trainee teaching assistant and a fiction author, with four published books to her name.
Hanalee is a 17-year-old American gardening enthusiast from Phoenix, Arizona, who plans on attending college at the University of Iowa in the autumn.
Bridgford Hashimoko, 52, is an EFL teacher in Tokyo, Japan, who is fascinated by the many forms and variations of Haiku.
Annabel James, from Oklahoma, USA, writes poetry as a positive outlet to manage a chaos of emotions and thoughts into a form that she can share.
Anjali Love is a mystic, poet, writer, storyteller, artist, and tantric yogini, from Melbourne, Australia and is a lover of life with insatiable wanderlust.
Heather Lynn Matthews is a married 30-year-old mother of two, from Ontario, Canada, who loves to write poetry and short stories.
Joseph Nichols is a graduate of EKU’s Bluegrass Writers Studio, and lives in Kentucky, USA. By day, he works for the state transportation cabinet; by weekend, he is a minstrel with A to Z Productions Mobile DJ.
Nic Outterside, from Wolverhampton in England spent almost 30 years in newspaper and magazine journalism. He discovered the therapeutic power of writing poetry following a nervous breakdown in 2013.
Brotibir Roy is a 16-year-old and a 10th standard student in Dhaka, Bangladesh, who writes to pacify his mind and to play with words.
Megan Taylor, 21, is an English and Film student currently studying at Aberdeen University in Scotland.
Troy Turner is born and raised in Los Angeles, USA. Nothing has captivated him so much as the written word and the interaction between author and reader.
Zanita is a 36-year-old college lecturer from Gaza in Palestine. When not teaching, she publishes books and leaflets to support the liberation of her country from the control of Israel.
Nic Outterside is the publisher of LUMINANCE.
“I have edited many publications over the years,” says Nic, “But none has been as challenging and exciting as this.
“I was lucky to have so many amazingly talented and beautiful people contributing to this hugely diverse project.
“Their writing alone is breath-taking, but it doesn’t stop there… they were all brimming with ideas about the book, its publicity and ways to reach more readers than I ever believed possible.
“And we all hope you enjoy and share their end result… we think it has all been worthwhile.”
LUMINANCE – Words for a World Gone Wrong can be purchased via all Amazon outlets at:
WORLDWIDE: https://www.amazon.com/LUMINANCE-Words-World-Gone-Wrong-ebook/dp/B07CQMWVJP
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/LUMINANCE-Words-World-Gone-Wrong-ebook/dp/B07CQMWVJP
CANADA: https://www.amazon.ca/LUMINANCE-Words-World-Gone-Wrong-ebook/dp/B07CQMWVJP
INDIA: https://www.amazon.in/LUMINANCE-Words-World-Gone-Wrong-ebook/dp/B07CQMWVJP
AUSTRALIA: https://www.amazon.com.au/LUMINANCE-Words-World-Gone-Wrong-ebook/dp/B07CQMWVJP
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