Brian Catling and Oliver Langmead are true masters in creating dreamlike plot sequences set in surreal worlds:
Brian Catling’s Hollow is an epic odyssey following a group of mercenaries hired to deliver a church’s ultimate power as the decadence of carnival gives way to the gravity of lent and the mystic landscape grows ravenous.
And Oliver Langmead’s Birds of Paradise is a fantasy about the Biblical Adam recovering the lost pieces of the Garden of Eden, determined to save the pieces of his lost home from Mankind and rebuild Paradise.
About the event:
Chaired by Jim Taylor from Lighthouse, Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop
Running time: 60 minutes
Tickets: £3 / £5 (plus 50p booking fee)
The event will be live on Zoom.
About the authors:
Brian Catling is a poet, sculptor, painter, and performance artist. He makes installations and paints portraits of imagined Cyclops in egg tempera. Catling has had solo shows at the Serpentine Gallery, London; the Arnolfini in Bristol, England; the Ludwig Museum in Aachen, Germany; Hordaland Kunstnersentrum in Bergen, Norway; Project Gallery in Leipzig, Germany; and the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, England. He is the author of The Hollow.
Oliver K. Langmead lives and writes in Glasgow. His long-form poem, Dark Star, featured in the Guardian’s Best Books of 2015, and his new book, Birds of Paradise, is arriving March 2021. Oliver is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Glasgow, where he is researching terraforming and ecological philosophy, and in late 2018 he was the writer in residence at the European Space Agency’s Astronaut Centre in Cologne.
