Iriada Tales: poetry collection

by Irene Smirnova

Overview

What if we view poetry as a visual medium? What if each poem is viewed as a short film? How would you set a movie scene with only a few words about love and dreams?

Irene's poems do just that, she uses poems as a visual medium with cinematographic tone, creating magically crafted imagery about nature, cities, mind, love, and dreams.

"Wind sweeping across the sea,

Breaking the waves,

Pushing the whites,

Pushing the blues,

Swearing the colours in me..."

Her poems will tell you stories of beauty, grief, despair, and awareness of the modern world's troubles. She writes poems with profound emotions and meditative refections about path of self, love, connection with universe.

"I am talking to the subconscious of the Earth;

That spells the rivers flooding,

That whispers scary words to avalanches

And breaks the ice with anger and despair...'

Dive into this world of poems in "Iriada Tales", find self-reflecting ideas for your own interpretations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781068915802
Publisher:	Atelier Bloom Editions
Publication date:	07/01/2024
Pages:	188
Sales rank:	557,182
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.51(d)

About the Author

Irene Smirnova is a Canadian writer, an award-winning visual and digital artist, who has contributed to over sixty films and TV shows. Irene's poetry is inseparable from her visual art.

Editorial Reviews

10/21/2024

Visual artist Smirnova, who has worked on award-winning shows and films like Game of Thrones, Stranger Things and The Revenant, finds freedom on the page in this debut poetry collection, which employs sculpted free verse to make spiritual contact, or a spiritual contract, and create a space of belonging for the individual in a unified community of energy. “We are a pulse of heartbeats,” she writes, “pulses of ancestry // We are pulsars of the universe // and stars in someone’s sky.” Reversing the image of a person staring at the stars, Smirnova builds a bridge between the self and the cosmos and between the divisions of chronological time, all in clear, concrete language that communicates with emotional force but leaves open other possibilities and meanings.

Smirnova’s collection is structured by loosely bound sections, which can overlap in theme, form, and subject matter. The first section, titled “Nature,” contains an ecstatic homage to the natural world and its cycles and transformations, but also a questioning both scientific and spiritual: “Is there logic // or just an intuitive movement, // that brings together // a state of things?” The penultimate section, “Cities,” romanticizes the hum of concentrated humanity in the urban environment, but also addresses the contrasting loneliness one feels in a crowded space, a loneliness that echoes these relatable lines from the poem “Ice Breaker” in the “Love” section: “I boomeranged your thoughts // Looked in your soul for more // but couldn’t find.”

Introspection is also a frequent creative force as Smirnova’s poetry assesses the individual’s relationship to the universe but also the very concept of a self: “I am rebuilding myself // from ashes, // I am redrawing myself // from blank.” Rather than a fixed entity, the self here is, like nature, an ever-shifting journey. “One day you have to take a path,” Smirnova writes, “that is unique, that no one took,” and ultimately, the path itself “makes you the one”—and part of the oneness that carries everything.

Takeaway: Searching, of-the-moment poems on nature, love, and the path of the self.

Comparable Titles: Amanda Lovelace, Caroline Kaufman.

Production grades Cover: A Design and typography: A Illustrations: A Editing: A- Marketing copy: A

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