Author: Anwen CrawfordIn the sixth Decadent Editions title from Fireflies Press, Anwen Crawford delves into Lynne Ramsay’s haunting second feature Morvern Callar (2002), adapted from Alan Warner’s novel, to craft a fiercely lucid and poetic exploration of grief, class, women’s authorship and the place of art in our world today. Anwen Crawford is a Sydney-based writer, visual artist and zine-maker, and the author of No Document (2021) and Live Through This (2015). “There is a film called Morvern Callar and a novel called Morvern Callar – now a critical study called Morvern Callar joins them as an equal. Anwen Crawford’s writing is tactile, agile and alert; she pushes always for the startling thought, thetartly troubling image. Great critics make compelling work even more compelling, and this is what Crawford achieves here, as she always does.” —Simon Reynolds, author of 'Still In a Dream: Shoegaze, Slacker and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984-94'About the film:In a Scottish port town, a young woman finds her boyfriend dead at Christmas. His suicide note asks her to send his finished manuscript out to publishers – which she does, but in her own name. She continues to show up for work at the local supermarket and takes her best friend on a clubbing holiday to Spain. She tells no one that he is dead.ISBN 9780645454741. Fireflies Press. pb. 180 pages. A6 flapped with foil detailing. 14.9 x 10.5 cm.not yet published
