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- ISBN 9781739323929
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 16 Oct 2023
- Publisher: Hawkwood Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Crow Dark Dawn interweaves the stories of Morrow, Ghresselle, Fenya and Binnory: vulnerable, complex and cunning, surviving in a liminal city of wind-swept wharfs and winding alleyways, stagnant canals and cold dank cellars - drawing on folklore and myth to create a distinctive dream-like atmosphere.
Morrow: abandoned by Lummenmilk, his mother. He is brought up by Grob, the wizened old ratcatcher, who teaches Morrow his trade.
Ghresselle: an old woman losing touch with reality, who wanders the city in search of her dead husband and a brother she never had, but who she believes is drowned.
Fenya and Arrak: two street urchins, filching fruit and pickings from the market and the docks.
Binnory: a young woman who arrives from the country, but quickly becomes entangled with the pickpockets and tricksters she meets on the streets.
Longing and loneliness, hunger and disease live cheek by jowl with dancing and revelry, fiddle-playing and puppetry - and the haunting memory of a far-off village, lingering on in the mythic tale of a flower which bursts into flames, but never burns.
DAVID GREYGOOSE dw dot windowsproject AT btinternet dot com
DAVID WARD was born in Northampton. He is co-founder of The Windows Project, running creative writing workshops in community venues on Merseyside since 1976 and editor of Smoke magazine.
He has toured to Singapore, Hong Kong and Harbin (Northern China) and broadcast on BBC TV and radio. Poems in over 200 magazines and anthologies, including Poetry Review, Abridged, Ambit and Poetry Wales.
Collections Tracts and On the Edge of Rain (Headland).
Jambo (Riot Stories Ltd and Impact)
Inside Pale Eyes (Hawkwood)
Visiting Writer-in-Residence Nanyang University, Singapore. Honorary Fellow in Creative Writing, Liverpool Hope University.
Writing as David Greygoose: folkloric tales Brunt Boggart (Hawkwood 2015; Pushkin 2018); Mandrake Petals and Scattered Feathers (Hawkwood 2021).
