Author Eliza Locke Collaborating with Artist Gabriel Bishop for New Book

New York, NY, February 10, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Eliza Locke, author of "Kissing In Iceland," is teaming up with internationally-acclaimed artist, Gabriel Bishop, for her new book, an urban fable titled, "The Tree Angel." The book is scheduled for a summer release.

Ms. Locke's latest book, "Kissing in Iceland," a gritty collection of poetry illustrated by award-winning portrait artist Kelly Carmody, is now available at Amazon.com and from booksellers around the globe.

Here's what people have been saying about "Kissing In Iceland":

"'Kissing in Iceland,' a book of poems by Eliza Locke and illustrated by Kelly Carmody, is a series of quiet revelations. The poems read like excerpts from a novel, with the hint of fully realized characters who have a sudden flash of insight as to who they are and what is happening to them.

The title of William S Burroughs' 'Naked Lunch' came from his friend Jack Kerouac. The Poet of Lowell read Burrough's untitled manuscript and described it as a Naked Lunch - a frozen moment where everyone realizes what's at the end of their forks. Locke's poems, written mostly in first person, describe frozen moments where someone suddenly understands the truth of their own existence..." -- Dennis Stevens, Catzilla Productions

"Eliza Locke's carefully-crafted collection bursts with sensory language and confronts the reader with intensity from its first line. Raw, bold, and unapologetic, these poems derive a fragile beauty that manages to bloom from within the depths of their often precarious themes. It is impossible to put down." -- Alexis Czencz Belluzzi, Practicing Distance

"Sometimes you read poetry. And sometimes you're struck by it. Warm words describe cold subjects in Kissing In Iceland, where the darker side of life and love are presented in Eliza Locke's brilliant writing style. She gives us glimpses into a world we may never actually visit, but will surely feel as if we've been there. It's beautiful and cutting and edgy, with illustrations by Kelly Carmody that are powerfully subtle." -- Lucy Spinetti, Boston Literary Magazine

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