Böcker av Nick Adigu Burke

Sleep, Awaken My Soul, is a mystical collection of poetry centred around the dreaming mind. Within this book, you will find a gateway, a mysterious portal of colour and wonder. Dare enter, and you will find yourself in the realm of dreams. A sometimes emotional, but often weird and mercurial world, where Time and Space are lawless, and Imagination runs riot. Each line of verse and poetic prose delves into dream philosophy, theory, spirituality, and mythology, creating a collection that will (hopefully) change the light in which you view your dreams.

The Luck of a Luckless Man, follows the dark and comedic tale of Ulf Friedrich, a small, ageing man, with big dreams.After returning home, from his New York vacation, Ulf begins to rue the mundanity of his life. Rainy Dusseldorf, where his wife (Ursula) treats him badly, her elderly aunt (Helga) treats him worse, and his carpentry job cripples, both, his body and his mind.When Ulf's hunger pangs are snubbed by Ursula (when she gifts the fries, he thought were his, to his nemesis aunt Helga), he skulks to the kitchen. There he vents his frustrations, and begins to daydream about New York and his late mother Margarita. However, upon ceasing his daydreaming, he has a farcical encounter with Lady Luck. She, visiting on the back of a forgotten Lotto ticket, which he discovers while preparing a sandwich. When Ulf checks the Lotto numbers, in the newspaper, he is astonished to learn the truth, and, within this revelation, sees the ending of all his woes. But, as is the fickle nature of Luck, things don't go quite as planned.

A world in nuclear turmoil. A young man flees London for the forgotten Scottish island of Invermore. But when he encounters the barbaric fishlike natives, he realises he has replaced one hell with another. The media are scaremongering again, screaming "nuclear annihilation" - the Russian-Ukranian war, threatening to plunge the world into Armageddon. Michael Mann, a young Londoner, flees the media circus, for the quieter climbs of Aberdeen on Scotland's northeast coast.While visiting the local pub, Mann meets grizzled seaman Frank McTavish, who tells him about Beltaine, a spectacular Gaelic festival, to be held by the islanders of Invermore two days hence. Instantly Mann's head is filled with visions of scantily clad beauties throwing themselves around roaring bonfires, to the rhythm of hypnotic drumbeats.The next day he is ferried to the island of Invermore by independent ferry-master Ron Buchanan. On arriving at the quiet harbour, Mann's initial enthusiasm is somewhat doused when he sees the town's dereliction. However, when he meets the crude fishlike natives the crumbling town becomes the least of his worries. He realises the Invermorian's do not see him as a tourist, but as a sacrificial lamb, who they must offer to their pagan gods for the granting of prosperity. Alone and trapped Mann must plot his escape or be barbecued on a bonfire.