Almost a Nightmare starts as a recount and a musing on the Fire of London but also traces the way that music can invade the imagination, and the body. A spine of moonlight moves through London like the Thames, and scorched manuscript marks the edges of Beethoven’s
sonata. Fire and music merge as poet and music does and the rush of fingers across the page, the chords and the city is the music as it flits across “s he –”.
– Sarah Cave
Astra Papachristodoulou is a poet and artist. She is a recent graduate from the MA Creative Writing (Poetic Practice) at Royal Holloway with focus in experimental writing and the neo-futurist tradition across poetry, visual art and performance. She is a co-founder of the artist association group ProArtè, which has curated several art exhibitions across the UK.
Her poetry has appeared in small magazines and anthologies such as The Tangerine, Stride Magazine and Streetcake. Astra has recently won the Pebeo Mixed Media Art Prize, and her paintings have been showcased at contemporary art exhibitions at the A&D Gallery in London, as well as Surrey-based venues such as the Ivy Arts Centre and The Studio.
ALMOST A NIGHTMARE
Astra Papachristodoulou
Published November 2017
ISBN 978-1-910578-68-1
A6 Size
16 printed pages
Colour
Chapbook 21
SLB076
Print run 0f 200
Price – £2.60
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