After lots of hard work by everybody involved, Owl Productions is happy to announce the launch of, A Midlands Odyssey, edited by Stoker, Charis & Davidson and published by Nine Arches Press. You can read a review here.
A Midlands Odyssey: with Natalie Haynes
October 7 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm | £8 / £6
In A Midlands Odyssey ten writers take the stories of Homer’sOdyssey and transplant them to the English Midlands. With a range of settings – from smart canal-side apartments to late-night launderettes – these stories are wonderfully inventive and offer a down-to-earth take on one of the world’s greatest pieces of storytelling.
‘The Odyssey theme, so rich with its tales of wandering Odysseus, the lure of the Sirens, the loss felt by Penelope and those gruesome reports across time from the underworld, energizes the ten writers here, providing a pretext for a fine array of inventive and imaginative stories, attuned to the legend, aslant to the Ancient World, adventurous in their address. If the topology is contemporary and centrally oriented, and the themes entertainingly current, this anthology is certainly not Midlands miscellaneous; it’s the opposite of drab urban realism: a mere seagull’s cry, only the odd whisper and rumour away from Ancient Greece itself.’
– Alan Mahar
‘An inventive and intriguing project, distinguished not only by the power of its Homeric reimaginings but by the superb quality of the writing throughout.’
– Jo Balmer
Price: £7.99 NAP 040
A Midlands Odyssey is a Writing West Midlands / Birmingham Literature Festival project managed by Owl Productions.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama for this project.