49 Syllables on Love

A meditation forty-nine poems long on love that combines creative flights within the confines of a haiku-like discipline. Every poem comprises just 49 syllables, with seven syllables on each of seven lines. This formal rigour provides a skeleton on which a filigree of feelings, thoughts and discursive world-play can be wrapped. The collection uses many unusual rhetorical devices in order to accommodate the formal strictures.

This is the second of three volumes, with one other completed. The other title is a meditation on life: 49 Syllables on Life.

The texts are accompanied by Tom Ang's atmospheric high-key images in which light itself is the subject.

Tom Ang was awarded the Hamdan International Photography Award for Content Creator in 2019. He has written over 40 books on photography including 'Digital Photographer's Handbook' that been translated into over twenty languages and multiple award-winning titles such as 'Digital Photography Masterclass' and 'Photography - the definitive visual history'. He has served on juries such as Wildlife Photographer of the Year, World Photography Award, HIPA, Czech Press Photo. He has presented TV series on photography for BBC4 and his series China News Asia won an award at the New York TV Awards. He has worked as a magazine editor, picture editor, technical journalist, has exhibited internationally and was a senior lecturer in photography for over twelve years. He won the Thomas Cook award for Best Illustrated Travel Book for his photography of the Marco Polo Expedition which pioneered the modern Silk Road crossing from Europe to China.