{"id":1661,"date":"2015-05-26T12:43:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T12:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameslawless.net\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2015-05-31T21:06:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T21:06:16","slug":"new-book-noise-sound-reflections-by-james-lawless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/?p=1661","title":{"rendered":"New Chapbook: Noise & Sound Reflections by James Lawless"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Noise-Sound-Reflections-James-Lawless\/dp\/1511674547\/ref=la_B001JOXD96_1_23?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1432643797&sr=1-23\"noise_front\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I have just published a small booklet titled Noise and Sound Reflections prompted by my living most of my life in an urban environment. Noise is a pollutant which I feel needs to be addressed more seriously in our society. The book is available in local bookshops and on Amazon for 5 euro and on Kindle for 2.99 euro.<\/p>\n

The blurb reads:<\/p>\n

What is noise? What happens when it gets inside your head? In his hilarious story marked with pathos Sound Reflections James Lawless sends up in his typical humorous fashion some of the effects of sounds on contemporary society, and this is followed by his unremittingly dark poem Noise which explores the devastation uncontrolled cacophony can inflict on sensitive individuals.<\/p>\n

Extract and part review from Amazon:<\/p>\n

I can rail against the machine of noise
\nbut there are no weapons to attack it
\nas more and more machines
\nthrob uphill
\ntheir voices reaching
\na screaming pitch
\nas they pass the apex
\nwhere my house is
\nits foundations rocking.<\/p>\n

…
\nNoise is a loud logic
\nsilencing the spontaneous
\nimmobilising the free
\nthe random
\nit is a megaphone
\ncommanding us to the shower rooms
\nattracting to itself
\nthe freewill
\nof all who hear
\nand we go meekly
\nbelieving the promise.<\/p>\n

‘Reading James Lawless is at all times refreshing, entertaining, engrossing and thought provoking – like having a very wise friend next door who simply makes the world make sense.’ Grady Harp, May 15<\/p>\n

Commendations on cover:<\/p>\n

\u2018Lawless has a lyric gift.\u2019 The Australian Journal of Irish Studies.<\/p>\n

\u2018Lawless is a natural philosopher and a writer passionately convinced of the spiritual value of poetry.\u2019<\/p>\n

Brendan Kennelly, poet.<\/p>\n

\u2018In reconnecting us with our buried selves, Lawless invents a new way of seeing the world.’<\/p>\n

Declan Kiberd, Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature at University College Dublin.<\/p>\n

\u2018The best of poetry has no agenda, and offers an avenue of resistance to society\u2019s push to conform. Lawless\u2019 work is a holistic act of self-preservation in a disjointed world.\u2019<\/p>\n

Katie Donovan, poet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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