Fire Escape: Urban and Rural Images and Poems (Poetry and Song Lyrics Books by Brady Kent) - Softcover

Kent, Brady; Ashton, John

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798339732228

Publisher: Independently published, 2024

Synopsis

Brady Kent Is Redefining Independent Music Through Global Creative Collaboration

This is a seventeen-book series of four unique Brady Kent Poetry Books and thirteen Song Lyric Books.

The most popular poems from the first four Poetry Books can be listened to on Brady Kents five-minute Podcast series, ‘5 Poems in 5’. You can also listen to Brady being interviewed on radio stations in both the UK and the USA.

There are over three hundred song lyrics in the next thirteen Song Lyric Books, with one hundred and seventy of these lyrics listened to and viewed on line as Demo Songs/Lyric Videos.

Of these, ninety have now been recorded as original organic songs by Guest Musicians in their studios around the world, using Brady Kent’s lyrics.

Brady Kent songs and podcasts are on all the social media sites and music/podcast platforms.

Check out The Guest Musician songs on ‘ Brady Kent Lyrics - Guest Musician Songs – YouTube’

This is the first book in the series of seventeen

‘Fire Escape’

Urban and Rural: Images and Poems, are the result of a joint collaboration between long term friends, Brady Kent (Poems) and John Ashton (Images)

This is the second book in the series.

Seen by some as dirty and ugly, the urban images are also graphic, geometric, stark, haunting and beautiful.

By contrast, the rural scenes are very different to the ‘chocolate box images’ we often see. Much of nature is old, decrepit, redundant and abandoned.

Each image seems to have a different story to tell, way beyond what we normally expect.

‘Gotham City’ is a surprise, whilst ‘Empty Offices’ explores an everyday issue. In ‘Last of the snow’ we read about a crime passionnel and an old lady who ‘no longer wanted to live and cry’

'I love a New York street scene, the balcony used in West Side Story. The retelling of a famous affair, between Juliet and her lover, Romeo.

A dark passage in San Fransisco, for Bogart to reach Russian Hill. Audrey and George in love, slipping out of the party before the cops break in, by escaping over a window sill.

Dreary, one dimensional, clean and recently painted indoor stairs and escalators.

They hold no attraction for me, no romance, no heritage, no iconic film scenes. They have not earned an applause.'

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798339732228
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 43