The Dead Queen of Bohemia
The Dead Queen of Bohemia by Jenni Fagan (The Panopticon, The Sunlight Pilgrims) is out today. I am very excited to say I illustrated the front cover and internal images.
Looks pretty damn cool – Irvine Welsh
The book is an extraordinary collection of poems.
The original brief was to illustrate the cover. Taking inspiration from the book itself, I ended up with a collection of illustrations to fit individual poems.
I think this is one book I will judge by its cover. It looks fabulous.
Ohhh, beautiful cover!! – Hank D
The poems are extremely visceral and I didn’t want to detract or overly influence the reader’s own imagination when reading them. I decided to just draw objects from them, rather than scenes. There are Wonder Woman Converse trainers, Doc Marten boots, a duck with sharp teeth and a dancing skeleton. They are in pencil – for complete honest simplicity. I love the way the publisher has allowed them to look like doodles scribbled into the book.
Nathan Thomas Jones’ illustrations really help to make this come alive. – Ed Crossan, Birlinn Books
I’m not a twitterer, but feeling the love via Jenni Fagan’s twits here:
https://twitter.com/jenni_fagan/status/667302860548272130
The Dead Queen of Bohemia is out today (14 April 2016) and is available in all good bookshops, as well as online at the publishers website:
Birlinn/Polygon
http://www.birlinn.co.uk/Dead-Queen-of-Bohemia-The.html
Blackwell’s
http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/id/The_Dead_Queen_of_Bohemia/9781846973390
Foyle’s
http://www.foyles.co.uk/witem/fiction-poetry/the-dead-queen-of-bohemia-new,jenni-fagan-9781846973390
Waterstone’s
https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-dead-queen-of-bohemia/jenni-fagan/9781846973390
and
Amazon
Also
You can see some photographs of people reading the book here.