PJ Harvey Announces Poetry Book The Hollow of the Hand
Photo by Tom Spray
Update: Listen to Harvey read her poem “The Guest Room” (and read the text of the poem) over at The New Yorker.
PJ Harvey has announced her first book: a 224-page collection of images and poetry created in collaboration with photographer/filmmaker Seamus Murphy, titled The Hollow of the Hand. According to Amazon, the new text arrives October 20, 2015 in the United States (October 8 in the United Kingdom) via Bloomsbury Circus, and was crafted in the wake of her last album, 2011′s Let England Shake. The Hollow of the Hand chronicles the authors’ travels around the world between 2011 and 2014, to locations such as Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Washington, D.C.
In a press release, Harvey reflected on the origins of the project:
Gathering information from secondary sources felt too far removed for what I was trying to write about. I wanted to smell the air, feel the soil and meet the people of the countries I was fascinated with. My friend Seamus Murphy and I agreed to grow a project together – I would collect words, he would collect pictures, following our instincts on where we should go.
PJ Harvey and Murphy previously partnered for a series of 12 short films inspired by Let England Shake.
Recently, PJ Harvey recorded a cover of Nick Cave’s “Red Right Hand” for the BBC TV drama “Peaky Blinders”, and was awarded an honorary degree from Goldsmiths, University of London.
Watch Murphy’s short film for “The Last Living Rose”, from Let England Shake:
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