Books by Paul Hetherington

Paul Hetherington breathes life and feeling into the vivid images, moments, and scenes which he captures in his latest collection.

Paul Hetherington's long prose poem Íkaros crafts from the myth of the same name, a unique inspiration and imagination spanning multiple layers of time and consciousness, incorporating memory and dreamscapes into an exceptionally potent exploration of a journey through to self-awareness. Central to the myth of Íkaros and to this collection is the relationship between father and son portrayed by Hetherington with exquisite honesty and tenderness, at once explorative and elegiac. His vision's complexity is expressed in clear, honed language, its fresh imagery enabling a rare and compassionate depth of insight. This is a painterly, highly visual and visceral work with compelling underlying cadences and rhythms. Hetherington gifts the reader with "a necklace of words; utterances like waves and beach-tossed stones" and a telling capacity to listen closely and to see clearly.

Contains 17 articles that focus primarily on enamel, the brilliant and colourful art form for which the Byzantines were famous throughout the medieval world. This book includes sculpture and glyptics. It also examines works which have retained the form in which they were first created.