{"id":7,"date":"2014-09-23T19:41:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T19:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/owlproductions.org\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2019-02-06T11:26:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T11:26:49","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/owlproductions.org\/?page_id=7","title":{"rendered":"A Midlands Odyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\">After lots of hard work by everybody involved, Owl Productions is happy to announce the launch of,\u00a0<em><span style=\"font-family: Times;\">A Midlands Odyssey, e<\/span><\/em>dited by Stoker, Charis &amp; Davidson and published by Nine Arches Press. You can read a review <a href=\"http:\/\/sabotagereviews.com\/2015\/01\/21\/a-midlands-odyssey-ed-polly-stoker-elisabeth-charis-jonathan-davidson\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.birminghamliteraturefestival.org\/event\/a-midlands-odyssey\">A Midlands Odyssey: with Natalie Haynes<br \/>\nOctober 7 @ 8:00 pm &#8211; 9:30 pm | \u00a38 \/ \u00a36<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\">In A Midlands Odyssey ten writers take the stories of Homer\u2019sOdyssey and transplant them to the English Midlands. With a range of settings \u2013 from smart canal-side apartments to late-night launderettes \u2013 these stories are wonderfully inventive and offer a down-to-earth take on one of the world\u2019s greatest pieces of storytelling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\">\u2018The 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\u2019s the opposite of drab urban realism: a mere seagull\u2019s cry, only the odd whisper and rumour away from Ancient Greece itself.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\">\u2013 Alan Mahar<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\">\u2018An inventive and intriguing project, distinguished not only by the power of its Homeric reimaginings but by the superb quality of the writing throughout.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\">\u2013 Jo Balmer<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\">Price: \u00a37.99 NAP 040<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\">A Midlands Odyssey is a Writing West Midlands \/ Birmingham Literature Festival project managed by Owl Productions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\">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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After lots of hard work by everybody involved, Owl Productions is happy to announce the launch of,\u00a0A Midlands Odyssey, edited by Stoker, Charis &amp; Davidson and published by Nine Arches Press. You can read a review here. A Midlands Odyssey: with Natalie Haynes October 7 @ 8:00 pm &#8211; 9:30 pm | \u00a38 \/ \u00a36&hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/owlproductions.org\/?page_id=7\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","xfolkentry","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/owlproductions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/owlproductions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/owlproductions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owlproductions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owlproductions.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/owlproductions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/owlproductions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owlproductions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/owlproductions.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}