Useless Magic: Lyrics, Poetry and Sermons Book
Gift type: Non Fiction Book
Perfect pick for: DIY and crafts, Music enthusiasts
Estimated Price: £14.75
The perfect gift for fans of Florence + the Machine, with additional lyrics, poems and a new chapter of sermons. Songs can be incredibly prophetic, like subconscious warnings or messages to myself, but I often don't know what I'm trying to say till years later. Or a prediction comes true and I couldn't do anything to stop it, so it seems like a kind of useless magic.
'Pop's high priestess bares her soul in this candid collection of poems and lyrics' Observer. 'A treasure . . . beautiful. Generous in its honesty, by the end you feel as though you have climbed into the colourful, and sometimes tortured, world of a passionate artist' i. 'Makes the reader feel as though they're peeking into a private journal' Refinery29.
Features:
- Height: 21.9 cm
- Length: 17 cm
- Width: 2.7 cm
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
“THEN LIGHTNING STRUCK / NOW I’M TOTALLY F****D.” I had the supreme joy of reading Florence Welch’s lyrics and poetry, ‘Useless Magic’, a couple of days early. What a monumental gift this book is. The lyrics-by-album serve as a retrospective, a chronology of the artist’s growth over ten years; lyrics which (excepting High As Hope) have been subjective and disputed. Laid out on the page there is no denying the sheer power and poetry of Florence’s song-writing; never does a lyric become a dead thing, flattened to the printed page. And what a joy to read through and discover new m...