Love algorithm
by Black Spring Press
In Love Algorithm, a tender touch of lyric love fuses with the harshness of profit-driven motivations to sharpen our appreciation of the digital age. Loss of an authentic self is never far away but neither is hope for the discovery of a new kind of fellowship. As the scenes shift from London to Paris to Shanghai, the poems intensify the global connections that make love a constant riddle for all mankind. Read Review here.
“Love Algorithm is a swirling dance of cities and signals, bodies and pixels, lovers and strangers, the stories we tell ourselves and the ones others will tell of us. This striking and very human collection by Eleni Cay plunges us over and over into a cold bath of the workaday world of late capitalism, and seems to ask: is this really what we want?”
“This is a collection of doubles and separates, of things paired and halved, where relationships fall apart and “August breaks hearts so they grow more resilient”. It is a story of love and loss, of people, place and the very oxygen within it. Here are poems of contained yearning, heady with the darkness of uncertainty. ”
celestial heteroglossia
“Reading this lovely and thought-provoking pamphlet at this moment in our lives, when there are so many uncertainties, I feel like it allows me to dream again and believe in hope that our planet will take care of us.”
“This is a beautiful collection, multi-voiced and resonant with the language of wonder and love”
by Poetry Space, Ltd.
The poems in this collection indicate hope with the feeling of magic and reverence for the unknown. If the Earth spoke to the Sun, what would she say? And if the Moon talked to the Sun, would they remember the times when they were one being? The perennial themes of togetherness and separation find their way into Eleni Cay’s delicate poetry.
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A SMALL LOVE DICTIONARY OF UNTRANSLATABLE JAPANESE WORDS
by Eyewear Publications, winner of the Lorgnette Pamphlet Series
“ It is small (thirty A5 pages), and it is definitely a dictionary. Each word is given in kanji as well as romanised, with a definition and an indication as to part of speech. These definitions themselves are tiny gorgeous poems.” from Rachel Playforth, who reviewed the pamphlet for Sphinx.
If you wish to buy a copy, please consider buying it directly from my publisher- Eyewear- rather than Amazon. The pamphlet is also available from The Reading Room, a nomadic and collectively run portable bookcase and reference library on wheels, with an emphasis on small press.
“These short poems are slivers of emotion, translating the mystical into the natural and everyday, a translation delicately balanced between cultures, Japanese and English-speaking, Keats and Basho. Read them: you have already felt them”
“Over a book-length collection, the concept would grow weary, each poem becoming less of a surprise. But, constrained by being a pamphlet, the length is right. There are still surprises. ”
A BUTTERFLY'S TREMBLING IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Full poetry collection originally written in Slovak, translated by John Minahane into English & by Inge & Peter Stahl into German
In 2013, I won the national competition by the publisher Cakanka which led to the publication of my first full collection entitled 'A butterfly's trembling in the digital age'. All poems are in Slovak, accompanied by some beautiful photographs taken by Ajvonka and Samuel Juris. The book can be bought from all good bookshops in Slovakia, or online at Martinus. Book Review is here in Slovak and here in English and readers' reviews are on this site. A short taster is here.
Colours of the Swan
Pamphlet with Kate Wyatt's paintings published by Westbury Arts
Kate is an artist and illustrator, one of the UK's leading wildlife painters with work in many galleries throughout the world and in private collections. Her brown hare, Ellen, was recently featured on BBC2.
In Colours of the Swan, Kate and I come together juxtaposing our two mediums, creating a piece of art which celebrates the connections between magic and life, colours and words, freedom to imagine and obligation for authentic representation.
This pamphlet is an ekphrastic* collection of poems and paintings that emerged from our collaboration during my residency at the Westbury Arts Centre.
*An ekphrastic poem is a vivid description of a scene or, more commonly, a work of art.
These photos are from our joint poetry-visual art exhibition at the 5th Base Gallery in London, September, 2015.
AUTUMN DEDICATIONS
Pamphlet published by Westbury Arts
Poems dedicated to “all those who have known the painfully raw experience of losing someone who they deeply loved”.
Poems dealing with loss, grief and love.