THE BOOK OF ABUNDANCE; a poet’s pilgrimage on the Camino Ingles ~ by Christ Bryan | pre-order for 11.09.25

THE BOOK OF ABUNDANCE;
a poet's pilgrimage on the Camino Ingles
by. Christ Bryan

{now available for pre-order in advance of its publication on Thursday 11th September, at the special price of £18 | first edition cloth-bound hardback signed by the author}

“a book of poetry written during the author’s pilgrimage on the traditional English route of the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain, a 120 kilometre hike taking in coast, village & town, ending at the Cathedral of Compostela where it is said the remains of St James The Apostle are housed..  part pilgrimage, part travelogue, part ancient road-trip in search of the divine.”

Excerpt from the book:

There Is No Poetry In Airports

there is no poetry in airports
eleven ante meridiem in Manchester’s
temple to flight
borne in perfect denial of the very idea
of the divine
who could have drawn it like this?
God took one look at departures and departed
and so we are are left down here alone in it
lost morass of lamb dressed in our full human worst
with nothing but series upon series of numbers
an unholy mass become duty free
and once up
clothed in plane hum wheeze
entrusted once again in the safety
of private school strangers
we are leaving this place
already becoming beyond it and yet still morning
the spaniards drink coffee
the english beer
imagine embarking upon a dry stomach
what real english horror

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