Several singers and songwriters who knew how to use words in their lyrics eventually came out with their own books. Dylan wrote two works, Morrissey his own autobiography, Nick Cave two novels and David Byrne from Talking Heads a publication about the meaning of music itself.
Among them is the English singer PJ Harvey. Last year, she published her second poetry collection Eagle and finally she used some of the poems on the latest album I Inside The Old Year Dyingwhich came out a week ago.
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She is known to the Slovak audience not only because she performed with great success at Pohoda in Trenčín in 2016. She has many fans who have been following her steps since her beginnings on the music scene in the first half of the 90s. Even today, this 53-year-old artist still proves that she is an exceptional singing phenomenon. And, by the way, also a very good poetess.
This is how several British critics commented on her last year’s book of poems Orlam, but the path to this book and to the new recording was not easy at all. A cycle about a little girl who grows up in rural Dorset and meets with
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