Bloodhoney Songs

Iceland is often labelled 'a land of ice and fire' - these days it has become something of a cliché - but when artist and poet Bruce Rimell visited with his husband in 2023 he felt plunged into a world of blood and honey a place of poetry and song recalling the Old Norse mythic images as well as the magma which underlies and sculpts the vistas of this volcanic country... to which I will say:I am a poet I pray to waterfallslet it outpour like rain... Simultaneously a journey through Iceland's natural cultural and human landscapes as well as a dreaming fall into the frenetic soul of a hyperactive poet 'Bloodhoney Songs' takes in scenes from Reykjavik ekphrastic verses springing from Icelandic music - from Björk to múm Sigur Rόs to Ólafur Arnalds - and geological wonders to evoke a sublime process of emergence from lifelong traumas as a Queer/ADHD person into a more hopeful place... breathe out:you are coming to an endof your grief a closing of time... Moving from the waking world through fractured dreams of love in Loki's arms into an eternal moment of stillness - the beginning of a fragile new world - this unique outsider's view of Iceland is possibly the most unusual perspective on the country and its fascinating people you've ever read!