• For Your Consideration:
• A SIGNED Limited Edition in HARDCOVER:
• “AND WHY WE WERE ALL GOING”
(Three Throated Press, 2017) (Hardcover, First Limited Edition)
• BY DOMINIC WILLIAMS
• SIGNING NOTE: This Limited-Edition Hardcover (number 34 of 200) is SIGNED & INSCRIBED by the author DOMINIC WILLIAMS. For details, please see “ITEM DESCRIPTION” & the photos.
• ABOUT THIS TITLE: • “THREE THROATED PRESS is geographically perched on the marshes of the mouth of the river TWYI where she and two other rivers, the TAF and the GWENDRAETH, share their voices in the chorus that is CARMARTHEN BAY.
“The heron is indigenous to the kaleidoscopic shorescape that exists between water and earth and this particular heron representing the triality of poetic language. The heron is a significant motif for the estuary between perceived realities and an otherworld. Both a guardian and a sage that may help make choices such as marrying the farmer’s daughter or the mermaid.
“WILLIAMS’ poems collected in this pamphlet are all from a singular perspective, but that perspective is not fixed, it is fluid. The work is experiential and immediate like the scribblings on hundreds of pages of a journal, the words within which have been torn up reduced and compacted. Compressed with language over and over again. Each poem is a small but intense gift, written for and about loved ones, friends and family. Life encoded by being pared back to understatement then wrapped in humour and hyperbole.”
—THE PUBLISHER
• “In his poetry comfort and turmoil lie as entwined bedfellows—like a Blacksmith he has beaten the words into submission, hammered them into surreal shapes that conjure trolls and old coats into a bizarre miasma of memory. Not only is it the work of a Bard, it is a paean to life, to loss and to the burgeoning awareness of one’s own mortality…. This work could only have been written by a man who has learned life lessons, brutal and uncomfortable though they are, and has come to peace with them in all their ugly beautiful truth.”
—MICHELLE DOOLEY MAHON
• “Deceptively easy flowing reading, skillfully applied, illuminates great ideas hidden deep in Ferryside’s shoreside pools. In these pages, there is much and plenty to ponder.”
—KEVIN CONNOLLY
• “Evocative and playful, burrowing deep into the mysterious liaison that exists so profoundly between people and place.”
—RACHEL TRESIZE
• “WILLIAMS understands that writing is not only an intellectual pursuit; it comes from and appeals to not just the head but also the guts and the muscles and the lungs and the gonads and the blood. In other words, he gets it.”
—NIALL GRIFFITHS
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• For other details about this book, please see below.
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SERIES: “SERIES EDITED BY THE WELSH WRITING DESK”
TITLE: “AND WHY WE WERE ALL GOING”
AUTHOR: DOMINIC WILLIAMS
TYPE: HARDCOVER
PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: THREE THROATED PRESS (Glan Morfia, Ferryside, South Wales), 2017
EDITION: First Limited Edition—#34 of 200.*
*RE: On the Title Page, the statement “A limited edition of 200 copies individually signed and numbered. No. 34 of 200.”
PAGES: 32
ISBN: 978-1-907476-27-3
NOTE: THIS BOOK is not an ex-library copy nor a Book-of-the-Month-Club edition.
CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS.
Not issued with Dust Jacket. Green boards are clean & bright. Corners are sharp. Spine is tight with slightly bumped tips. Edges are fine. Cover imagery & text remain vivid. Text-block edges are sharp. Pages are all pointedly bright & clean—with no writing (save for the author’s inscription & signature), no underlining, no highlight, no tears, no stains, no foxing, no foul odor, etc. LOOKS UNREAD.
• THE AUTHOR DOMINIC WILLIAMS’S SIGNATURE & INSCRIPTION: Appear, in black, ink on the Title Page as follows: “To Isabel, I hope somewhere in here you find empathy with a man from the mining valleys of South Wales. X”—with the author’s full signature above this.
•• SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned & sturdy mailer. THANK YOU!
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