Opera di Cera Amanda Dalton

Opera di Cera Amanda DaltonTravel back to 18th century Florence, where the Museum of Physics and Natural History is creating its most famous waxwork, the anatomical Venus: a life sized female figure who comes apart to reveal a foetus in the womb. Opera di Cera combines Pygmalion myth and historical research to create a macabre romance that ends in triumph and tragedy. Immerse yourself in a sensual underworld of bodysnatching, dissection, bondage and greed, following the

and which might in the past have invited censure and punishment

George Szirtes (with Veronika Krasnova): From the Introduction to Six poems

Black Moss and Vehicule

my warm fur boots with their bit of warmth make your bones grow make your flesh grow

One of their great pleasures is that they retain a flavour of the speaking voice: enthusiastic

which she says is not about growing up in the Rhondda

In inventing a biography and the drowned man’s unspoken desires

Ashur Twebi – Six Poems

motivated by a sacred bond that happens

bringing parallels with Ovid’s famous poem describing his last night before exile

He has conducted on Songs of Praise and broadcasts regularly on the radio

He is a novelist and newspaper columnist