Jerusalem. A generation from now.Demographic shifts have transformed the Jewish state into an ultra-Orthodox society. The commandments are no longer simply observed. They are monitored and enforced.Every citizen carries a device that tracks behaviour, speech and vital signs. The result appears on the screen as a single number:Your Piety Score.At the centre of the system stands E.Z.R.A, a vast intelligence designed to guide society toward per...

Simkin's poetry dares us to feel all there is, so that we can return to a state of wholeness. And just as the cure may lie in the poison, Simkin describes the machinations of the thinking mind to point us towards the quiet of the witnessing presence.Waves on Waves is an eclectic and delightfully engaging collection of 69 poems, divided into five sections according to the different types of brainwaves.Part lyric and part narrative, this poetry is written with compassion and ...

There is a sense of urgency in Pachamama Doesn't Take Sides, Michael Jack Simkin's first collection of poetry, published under his own name. His words describe with candour and compassion how childhood trauma persists in adulthood. He sketches with precision the process of our divorce from nature and our longing to return to the source. Along the way, he illuminates some of the paradoxes of the Israeli condition, with a biting sense of irony.Simkin explains his motives behind the c...

Raw, candid, and ironic, Simkin's style is direct and challenging. In this, his first short collection of poems, he takes us on a journey, through pain, doubt, and annoyance at hypocrisy, to moments of rapture and mystical perspectives.Simkin paints life warts and all, rewarding us along the way with vivid descriptions and succinctly painted paradoxes.