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THE MERMAID OF AL-ANDALUS | Gerry Ray & Phil Cope

£10.00

THE MERMAID OF AL-ANDALUS is a photopoetic collaboration between the poet Gerry Ray and photographer Phil Cope, fashioned over more than twenty years.

With 28 poems by Gerry Ray, paired with 46 photographs by Phil Cope, THE MERMAID OF AL-ANDALUS is an exciting new photopoetic collaboration.

When poetry ­(as one of the most ancient of our art forms) and photography (one of our most recent) choose to cohabit within the pages of a book like this one, a subtle negotiation is required within the multiple creative intersections on offer between the worlds of image and verse:

the image is transcribed

like a photo of a photo

or a sound of a sound,

word of a word …

THE MERMAID OF AL-ANDALUS is a photopoetic collaboration between the poet Gerry Ray and photographer Phil Cope, fashioned over more than twenty years.

With 28 poems by Gerry Ray, paired with 46 photographs by Phil Cope, THE MERMAID OF AL-ANDALUS is an exciting new photopoetic collaboration.

When poetry ­(as one of the most ancient of our art forms) and photography (one of our most recent) choose to cohabit within the pages of a book like this one, a subtle negotiation is required within the multiple creative intersections on offer between the worlds of image and verse:

the image is transcribed

like a photo of a photo

or a sound of a sound,

word of a word …

80 pages

Published August 2025

Softcover

16.5 x 23.5 cm
ISBN: 978-1-0686806-2-5
 
“A gorgeous collection of lyric poems that tell the story of one man’s love affair with Spain, its history and landscape. Ray’s words are a bitter sweet combination of longing and loss, imbued with the heat and light of Andalusia”
— Robert Minhinnick, Poet
 
“Cope’s creative pairing of photography and words continues to set a high bar in Wales”
— Brian Carroll, Offline Journal
 
“Phil Cope is a genius with a camera”
— Cymdeithas Ffynhonnau Cymru / Welsh Wells Foundation