Bloodhoney Songs

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Iceland is often labelled 'a land of ice and fire' - these days it has become something of a cliche - but when artist and poet Bruce Rimell visited with his husband in 2023, he felt plunged into a world of blood and honey, a place of poetry and song, recalling the Old Norse mythic images, as well as the magma which underlies and sculpts the vistas of this volcanic country... "to which I will say: I am a poet, I pray to waterfalls, let it outpour like rain..." Simultaneously a journey through Iceland's natural, cultural and human landscapes, as well as a dreaming fall into the frenetic soul of a hyperactive poet, 'Bloodhoney Songs' takes in scenes from Reykjavik, ekphrastic verses springing from Icelandic music - from Bjoerk to mum, Sigur R?s to Olafur Arnalds - and geological wonders, to evoke a sublime process of emergence from lifelong traumas as a Queer/ADHD person into a more hopeful place... "breathe out: you are coming to an end of your grief, a closing of time..." Moving from the waking world, through fractured dreams of love in Loki's arms, into an eternal moment of stillness - the beginning of a fragile new world - this unique outsider's view of Iceland is possibly the most unusual perspective on the country and its fascinating people you've ever read!