Kathmandu, Andrew Shaw
£9.00
New writing by Andrew Shaw. 24 pages.
"After studying the Bardo Thödol (Otherwise known as the Tibetan Book of the Dead) for several years I was invited to a monastery in Nepal to take part in a meditation practice. I gained a credential that helps me to help people navigate their dying process, and to perceive life and death as a series of bardos – dreamlike arenas of experience. After my time in the monastery I returned down to Kathmandu, a city I love, existing on a fault line. I walked all day every day for weeks around the streets and squares. One day I was sat beside the cremation fires at a temple and watched an old man (part of a grieving family) clap-squash a black fly between his palms. I imagined the mind of the fly drifting away from its body, through the collective grief and love of the city’s residents. That clap, and the death of a black fly as punctation, really appealed to me." Andrew Shaw.
Andrew Shaw has several published books and pamphlets of poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction. Often writing under pseudonyms he has won numerous literary awards. He worked as an arts and culture writer, poetry tutor, and as poet-in residence at the Swan Theatre, Worcester. He has completed extended solitary retreat in a cave in Ladakh. His artwork has appeared in galleries in the USA, Europe and Asia. Andrew is a founding member of The Silent Academy - a conceptual art press.
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