AFTER ECONOMY
a new collection exploring the fine line between abundance and apocalypse
Out now! Get your copy here, and book here for the After Economy Edinburgh launch at Talbot Rice Gallery. More details below. It would be lovely to see you there.
Book Launch
Talbot Rice Gallery
3 May 2017 6pm-7.30pm
Book tickets here.
Please join us for the launch of a new collection of poetry, After Economy, by JL Williams.
Williams has a piece in the current exhibition Between poles and tides, and you are invited to explore the show during your visit.
This event will feature a short reading by Williams, who will be accompanied by the award-winning composer and cellist, Atzi.
After Economy is an exploration of the fine line between abundance and apocalypse, an attempt to respond formally and thematically to the complexities faced by human beings living amidst political unrest and technology-driven cultural change, and an inquiry into our relationship with time.
‘For some reason, slightly unfathomable, I am reminded of a forest we visited on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido where the annual winter ice festival is held. The forest is sprayed for days by the local fire department, but not before flowers and colored lights have been hung within the branches, so when the whole forest turns to crystalline ice, the lights burn from within, the whole crystal forest glows, and when you walk there, flowers look out from the ice, arrested in full bloom. It is all so unexpected, and so extravagantly beautiful — something essential in such crystallization, and with fire in its core. Well, this vision returned to me reading your manuscript.’ Eleanor Wilner
JL Williams Poetry 