THE PEOPLE WE TOOK FROM THE TOWN

The Return to Reason Series comprises six books, each aimed at attracting new readers towards mediums with which they may not have previously engaged. The array of featured writers, photographers and artists are each dedicated to the discovery of exciting new perspectives on the world and to raising new ideas and fresh points of discussion. At a time of seismic change, this special series attempts to create a new standard by which we can measure the world, hopefully elevating different forms of art and expression into active parts of the day. Each piece seeks to challenge your own responses in acts of soulfulness and solidarity. To fully understand reason each one of us needs to be wise.

In this second book, THE PEOPLE WE TOOK FROM THE TOWN, series editor David Erdos has selected a range of essays on diverse topics, from studies of the Avant-Garde, to contemporary society, via reflections on William Blake and Michael Horovitz, the London Punk Scene of the 1970s, Ernest Hemingway, Adam Curtis and musical polymath David Bramwell. The writers included are masters of both the poetic and the dialectic, and you can find previously unpublished pieces from Iain Sinclair, Niall McDevitt, John Higgs, Malcolm Ritchie, Richard Cabut, and Rose Levinson alongside other seismic contributions. The essay is the ultimate exercise in both expertise and enthusiasm. It is this book’s aim to return reason to an ever-enlightening form.

Series Editor David Erdos is an actor, writer, director, teacher, filmmaker, and a widely published poet, playwright, and critic, dedicated to establishing new cultural standards. For all creeds, new screeds.