The Hours of Our Lady, signed edition

Signed edition of 'The Hours of Our Lady' - a chapbook containing poetry and short, experimental fiction. Published by Salo Press.

'In short pieces full of vivid images, David Frankel goes out into the derelict edgelands of our messed-up society and finds a strange, forlorn beauty in those places that defy the advertisers and financiers. 'The tranquillity of negation,' he calls what he encounters there, in that zone of dread and grace, where the overlooked inhabitants find consolation in oblivion. A brief, marvellous, haunting book, reminiscent of Sebald and Sinclair.'
David Swann, author of Season of Bright Sorrow

‘David Frankel’s sharp, alluring fragments read like reports from a disturbing world that, with gradual alarm, we realize is the same one we’re standing in. In these eerie commentaries, we feel flashes of Borges’ Labyrinths and Ballard’s Atrocity Exhibition, though neither can fully prepare us for what we are about to experience. Dark-ravaged, ecclesiastical, rain-lashed, these are stories from a reality that before we glimpsed only in the corner of our eye, but now grows bigger, closer, presses in on us, urgently, with fervour.’
Ashley Stokes, author of Gigantic