coordinates
Book Title: coordinates
Author: Andrew Shaw
ISBN: 978-1-7337990-1-0
Page Count: 65
Trim: 5 x 5
Format: Paperback
Price: £10.00
Publish Date: May 2021
In coordinates, Andrew Shaw explores the nature of memory and interdependently-arising phenomenon, both material and immaterial. Through a sequence of images, locations and mnemonic exercises a view of the magical whole is revealed. Seemingly dislocated aspects of mind and material are gathered together to describe intuitive truths; the unifying emptiness behind all phenomenon is revealed.
About the Author
Andrew Shaw was born in and raised in England. He has numerous chap-books and four previous collections of poetry: Architecture of Shells (Willful Editions) paper lampshade hotel (Leafe Press). couplets, and questions (The Silent Academy) His work has appeared in Envoi, Acumen, The Haiku Quarterly, still, Iota, Poetry Nottingham International, Jigsaw, and Rialto. He has exhibited art in galleries around Europe and the USA. He has won numerous literary awards, taught creative writing, contributed Arts and Culture content to BBC radio, worked as a columnist in a number of national outlets, worked as Director of Content for a number of pop culture outlets, and enjoyed a two year tenure as the Poet in Residence at the Swan Theatre.
About the book
In coordinates Andrew Shaw explores the interdependence of all things material and immaterial, and the concepts of memory and memory of memory.
Informed by esoteric eastern writings coordinates seeks to encourage a world view that celebrates unity rather than separation of self from other.
Foreword by Alex Ebert, artist, activist and Golden Globe Award-winning songwriter who is exploring the world via his Bad Guru persona.
From the Introduction of coordinates:
All of this is more succinctly expressed in the Vietnamese proverb, “When eating fruit think of the person that planted the tree.”
