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A Choir of Ghosts

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Some say, “Don’t judge a book by its cover”, but Ayachi’s debut poetry collection, A Choir of Ghosts, comprising twenty-six poems, showcases a vintage-looking oil painting by Bridget Anne McNeill on the jacket, which captures the collection’s themes of death, loneliness and loss perfectly. At first glance, that cover possesses a vaguely eerie quality; on further inspection, it is certainly unsettling. Figures with distorted and blurred faces are understood to represent Bride and Groom accompanied by their wedding guests. This painting may have once been as beautiful as the love of the newly-wed couple but is now corroded with time and age; in addition, the artist’s handling of the shadows also means that some detail of the faces are obscured. The layering of the paints and glazes works in a very similar way to Ayachi’s lines.

Language: English

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Calder Wood Press

Release: May 10, 2022

A Choir of Ghosts

3/5 ( ratings)

Some say, “Don’t judge a book by its cover”, but Ayachi’s debut poetry collection, A Choir of Ghosts, comprising twenty-six poems, showcases a vintage-looking oil painting by Bridget Anne McNeill on the jacket, which captures the collection’s themes of death, loneliness and loss perfectly. At first glance, that cover possesses a vaguely eerie quality; on further inspection, it is certainly unsettling. Figures with distorted and blurred faces are understood to represent Bride and Groom accompanied by their wedding guests. This painting may have once been as beautiful as the love of the newly-wed couple but is now corroded with time and age; in addition, the artist’s handling of the shadows also means that some detail of the faces are obscured. The layering of the paints and glazes works in a very similar way to Ayachi’s lines.

Language: English

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Calder Wood Press

Release: May 10, 2022

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