{"product_id":"candles-and-water-by-timothy-thornton","title":"Candles and Water by Timothy Thornton","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"woocommerce-product-details__short-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCandles and Water is a queer pillow book: a document of wreckage, haunting, and survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThis collection is made of fictions and diaries, dreams and lists, lies and ghost stories. Its fragments and filaments are lonely, joyous, enraged, sickly, and lost; and when they crystallize around a single voice, it is by way of healing from grief and recovery from addiction.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eTimothy Thornton is a writer and musician. His work was in Volume 2 of the new Penguin Modern Poets series, and he has published eleven books of poetry with small presses. He organised two series of reading and performance nights in Brighton: ‘evenly and perversely’ and ‘WHAT YOU NEED’. He has composed and performed scores for productions at Battersea Arts Centre and The Yard Theatre.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eCandles and Water\u003c\/i\u003e risks everything, daring to explore powerful vulnerabilities, yearning, and unabashed hope. Elusiveness and the whisperings of shadows inhabit these pages, always illuminated and burnished by the voice of a poet’. — Thomas Glave, author of \u003ci\u003eAmong The Bloodpeople\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e‘Timothy Thornton’s \u003ci\u003eCandles and Water\u003c\/i\u003e is a rare and transformational book, haunting, beautiful and watchful. Writing that follows its brush like Sei Shōnagon.’— David Hayden, author of \u003ci\u003eDarker with the Lights On\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e‘These radical, scattered shards of life and sensation. . . come to a whole, coalescing like bioluminescence. . . witty, dark, profound, devastating. One long séance with a fellow human soul.’ \u003c\/span\u003e— Philip Hoare, author of \u003ci\u003eRISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback \/ 347 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Bookish Type","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53502208344445,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/0891\/0933\/files\/9781739364991.jpg?v=1728642461","url":"https:\/\/thebookishtype.pro\/products\/candles-and-water-by-timothy-thornton","provider":"The Bookish Type","version":"1.0","type":"link"}