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Illustrated with 62 stunning images, Charms and Glitter brings you onto the stage at major music festivals to get up close with seminal and emerging bands and artists, including The Rolling Stones, Blondie, IAMDDB, Bon Jovi, Blur, Lianne Le Havas, and Paul Weller. Trev Eales' striking photographs are accompanied by poems from the internationally celebrated poet Robert Sheppard, which attempt to capture something of what is visible of the interiority of the musicians. Together, the two artists evoke the colours, energy, passion and mayhem that comprise the fabric of music festivals.

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Looking is not the same as seeing and hearing is not the same as listening, declares poet Robert Sheppard as his words chaperone Trev Eales' photographs, in this collection of images that inspire verse, like a songwriter adding lyrics to a new and beautiful melody. - Carl Hunter, film director (Sometimes, Always, Never) and bass player (The Farm) About the Authors Trev Eales is a photographer specialising in live music who lives in Cumbria. For over 20 years, beginning in the early 1990s he photographed for WOMAD. Over the past 10 years he has contributed as a photographer and reviewer to a variety of online publications covering major UK music festivals: Glastonbury, Reading, Isle of Wight, TRNSMT etc. Photographs and reviews: efestivals.co.uk Web: trev-eales.co.uk. Robert Sheppard is a poet who lives in Liverpool. His last KFS publication was Hap: Understudies of Thomas Wyatt's Petrarch. His selected poems, History or Sleep, is available from Shearsman, which also publish The Robert Sheppard Companion, edited by James Byrne and Christopher Madden, which carries essays on his work. Co-editor of Atlantic Drift, he is also a critic of contemporary poetry. Emeritus Professor at Edge Hill University. Web: robertsheppard.weebly.com. Robert met Trev at a Thin Lizzy concert in Norwich in 1974.

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