In her collection Tourist, TAK Erzinger invites us on a journey. It's a deeply personal one: abandonment, discovery, loss and acceptance vie for space on the page. With the help of winged messengers and flora and fauna that creeps, winds and demands we engage, Erzinger presents otherness and connectedness. She leads us through the flux of the human experience with powerful layers of imagery from the natural world.Revelations are made in the middle of the night, during a pandemic, in...

What if you lost someone very important to you and didn't have anyone around youwho understood your feelings?One summer, a sad woman arrives in a tiny village. A little girl in the village recognises her sadness.In this gentle and loving story, a carefree farm girl strikes up an unusual friendship with an interesting foreigner.Soon they both realise they have a lot in common, even though they have very diff...

A woman runs from a cult leader.A man watches a crowd carry a baby into the woods.A boy makes a childhood friend who is much older than she appears.The forty pieces in this book unite two creative endeavours at the heart of humanity: making music and telling stories. Each writer took inspiration from one of the ten tracks on the Wayward & Upward album by Spinoza Gambit. This anthology collects one short story and three poems for each track, showcasing the variety of...