100 Years of Ermintude
TOTAL TRACKS
3
PATHWAYS
Poetry,
Short Stories,
Audiobooks
Your Guide
Tom is a storyteller, meditation guide, ambient music composer and modern day mystic.
Journey Description
Beautifully crafted, sensitive and enlightening, One Hundred Years of Ermintrude, is a breath of fresh air to the poetry arena.
Drawing on the imaginative vitality of the magic-realist mode, the book tells the stories of 3 members of one family, presided over by the indomitable Ermintrude, condensing defining moments in each life into stanza form. The result is a highly evocative, affecting poem-story.
The eponymous opening tale of centenarian Ermintrude is recounted backwards, opening with the image of her wreath and ending with her mother s pregnancy, and establishes the probing questions about time and life that characterise the ensuing tales of her children, Tristan and Lucy. The stories intertwine, musing on family, individuality, and mortality, whilst the prismatic writing bears endless re-listening.
Drawing on the imaginative vitality of the magic-realist mode, the book tells the stories of 3 members of one family, presided over by the indomitable Ermintrude, condensing defining moments in each life into stanza form. The result is a highly evocative, affecting poem-story.
The eponymous opening tale of centenarian Ermintrude is recounted backwards, opening with the image of her wreath and ending with her mother s pregnancy, and establishes the probing questions about time and life that characterise the ensuing tales of her children, Tristan and Lucy. The stories intertwine, musing on family, individuality, and mortality, whilst the prismatic writing bears endless re-listening.
Journey Tracks
100 Years of Ermintrude
This is the first story in the trilogy which was written at 39,000 feet in a 747 somewhere over the mid-Atlantic. I wrote it forwards and it was suggested by the narrator (my better half) that it could work backwards.
DURATION: 19:12
Free
25 Years of Tristan
In this second intertwined poetic journey, I explore what life might be like if we knew how long we had left.
DURATION: 11:10
Free
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