I had a proud moment some weeks ago when my chapbook (Words of Birth and Death, published by Bloc Press) was launched at the Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair, together with Andrew Wilson’s The Terminal Zone and a new issue of Naked Punch Review edited by Jacopo Moroni. And now UK SF Book News has a nice promotional piece on the two books.
“Finns are a contradictory people,” said Rajaniemi. “A young nation, we have created one of the most successful welfare states in the world and live surrounded by beautiful, unspoiled nature. Yet we have one of the highest suicide rates in the world: there is an undercurrent of darkness in the Finnish psyche that echoes the seemingly endless Northern winter.
“And - as Johanna Sinisalo mentions in her introduction in the chapbook - in spite of our technological prowess and secular nature, few other Western nations are so close to their native mythologies as the Finns. If you listen carefully enough, there are deep, old voices singing underneath the cheerful Nokia ringtones.”
You can find the chapbooks at Transreal Fiction or order them through Word Power Books. So what are you waiting for?
For my promised free copy…
I just got a copy to review from Tangent Online, and I must admit I was completely blown away. Absolutely fantastic. Brilliant. Mind fucking god humping shit damn oh fuck oh yeah great.
I just had to tell you that. It was great. I’m telling everyone I can to buy it.
Paul, many thanks for the fantastic review — it’s that kind of feedback that gets one up in the morning to pound at the keyboard…