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""Love me when I die, I shall be near. Love me when I die, I'll be not far from here."" - Edouard d'Araille This is the 10th Anniversary Edition of Edouard d'Araille's classic work of romantic poetry 'LOVE IMMORTAL', originally released in 2015 as 'Love Immortal: La Poésie de l'Amour'. It has been completely revised for this new 'Gothic Edition' for 2025. 'LOVE IMMORTAL', on its release in 2015, was the first volume that drew together all the romantic verses of contemporary poet Edouard d'Araille from more than half a dozen works published over a 17-year period, including poems from verse cycles 'In a Short Space of Time', 'Out of these Eyes', 'Ground Zero', 'The Lost Verse', 'Words Can't Hold...' et al. However, 'Love Immortal' is in itself a new verse cycle, which leads its readers on a 3-stage journey through the phenomenon of Love, including specially commissioned poetic works by Edouard d'Araille. Classic works of romantic poetry featured in this unique anthology include: 'You I do not know', 'The Kiss of the Naked', 'In the Afterlight', 'Absinthe in Absentia', 'Yours Ever', 'Doors of the Night', 'The Last Romance' and 'Love Me When I Die'. Poems written especially for this collection include: 'Amour sans Espoir', 'Sorry am I', 'Bro ken' and the title poem 'Love Immortal'. This poetry cycle is divided into 3 stages, with a prologue and epilogue. The three phases of 'LOVE IMMORTAL' are: 'Bound to Love', 'Heartache & Healing' and 'Love Immortal'. The focus of the poems in these parts is loosely indicated by their headings. Part I, BOUND TO LOVE, journeys into the depths of love and adoration, how a soul can be all-consumed by love, the binding power of infatuation, as inescapable as any shackles or chains. Edouard d'Araille presents love as an unsolvable enigma - pure emotion that cannot be comprehended by reason. Part II, HEARTACHE & HEALING, travels further toward the heart of love and the experience of emotional pain, even suffering, due to the extent of love. Edouard d'Araille explores the healing nature of love; also how a broken heart itself needs healing, the ability to apologise and forgive. Finally Part III, LOVE IMMORTAL, ventures on the boundless seas of love and considers how the power of love may transcend time and space, even death, so as to keep lovers together even beyond the mortal coil in which life unfolds. The eternity of love is reflected in poems of profound depth. The transition through this multi-stage poetic journey of love is rendered even more stimulating and thought-provoking by several dozen specially composed romantic quotes that punctuate the volume from beginning to end, giving new perspectives on the different aspects of love. 'LOVE IMMORTAL' is presented here in a new Pocketback(TM) version of the 10th Anniversary Gothic Edition. Only 4"" x 6"" in size, it is ideal to fit in jacket pockets, handbags, portfolios and small carry-arounds of almost all kinds. The text presents a exact reproduction of the Gothic Edition in miniature. The text of the original edition of 'LOVE IMMORTAL' has been completed re-edited and re-typeset for this fourth, new edition of Edouard d'Araille's timeless love poetry collection, presenting this one-of-a-kind series of romantic poems in a completely different light than ever before. 'LOVE IMMORTAL' in Pocketback(TM) is an ideal gift-book to give to one you love, whether or not they already love you. It is described by reviewers as ""The most romantic book of poetry ever published "" and ""An unmissable work of poetry for lovers and those in quest of love"". ""The heart has its reasons, that reason does not understand."" - Blaise Pasc

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SELECT REVIEWS OF 'LOVE IMMORTAL': ""This is remarkable poetry - it manages to crystallize the emotions and situations of love so accurately and powerfully, yet with the very fewest words necessary. I dare say that this author's succinct poems of love will fire arrows through the hearts of its other readers in the same way that it has done to me. The intensity of this poetic experience is one that has haunted me so long after reading, it still lingers with me months later."" - Evelyn D'Arcy [Romance Author] (2015) ""The most romantic book of poetry ever published."" - 5***** Review of 'Love Immortal' (2016; 2nd Edition) Harvey Day, eReaderBookstore ""I honestly don't know what I would have done without this book. It expressed a feeling that I wanted to share with my partner so perfectly, I just left 'Love Immortal' open on her pillow at page 38, and hearts were healed by midnight."" - Dominique Danielle [Review: 'Une Vue Romantique' (2017)] ""The truth is that the first collection of poetry that I wrote - all the way back in 1998 - was a volume that was focused on the nature of Love more than on anything else. The poem 'Love Me When I Die', which was the first one to gain considerable attention on Facebook, first appeared in 'Even We Are In Arcadia', while 'What Can You Do?' was initially published in the verse cycle 'Lotophagi: The Song of the Lotus-Eaters' (1999) - and ultimately became a part of the Blue Edition of 'Ground Zero' (2000). 'Love Immortal' brings together love poetry spanning 18 years of composition."" - Edouard d'Araille, in 'Je Suis Poëte' (1st Edition; 2022). REVIEWS OF OTHER POETIC WORKS by Edouard d'Araille: ""This is a wonderful piece of work and a real contribution to reading literature. [...] It is a really beautiful book."" - Prof. Shlomo Izre'el writing about 'Adapa's Ascent: A Myth of Man and Immortality' (2020) ""From the title poem 'Words of Mass Destruction' down to the post-finale 'The Last of London', this is a visionary and spectacular work of poetry. This is an author from whom one never knows what to expect. He startles me at every turn with his outlooks on our Humanity."" - Melissa Frost [Reviewer] on 'WMD: Words of Mass Destruction' (2017) ""There isn't a single type of poetry missed out of this anthology collated from ten poetry collections by Edouard d'Araille - the tragic and comical, romantic and political, nonsensical and mystical are all in here. This author writes fearlessly and in a concise, punctual, gripping style. His words keep me in a state of poetic suspense."" - James Hartley [Editor] on 'Words Can't Hold... - A Decade of Poetry' (2010) ""I enjoyed this book immensely. [...] The book has a good mix of drama, comedy and suspense all worked into an ingenious plot. I fully recommend others to read it. It is a real gem."" - Marianna Csoti [Reviewer] on 'Black Cab & Other Movies' (2004) ""This is a text of the highest order. It is a beautiful poetic work that relaxes and soothes the reader, but at a deeper level requires close reading to draw out the subtle meanings hidden within the text [...] really worthwhile as it is an anthology of rare genius and beauty."" - Barry Page [Reviewer] writing about 'The Complete Poetic Works of Soma Amritah' (2002) ""This is technically fascinating and moving poetry."" - The Late Prof. John Bayley writing about 'In a Short Space of Time' (1999) some of whose poetry features in 'Love Immortal'.

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Contemporary English language poet Edouard d'Araille, born in 1974, released his first volume 'In a Short Space of Time: A Verse Cycle' in 1999. His début collection was followed by seventeen other full-length publications over the subsequent quarter century. Edouard d'Araille's poetic style varies noticeably between his works, though it is fundamentally unified in the use of concise verses, straightforwardly engaging vocabulary and an energetic playfulness of verbal structures. One of Edouard d'Araille's most noteworthy recent works is 'Adapa's Ascent' (2020), a translation of the Adapa legend from Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform tablets into modern English verse, which includes his essay 'The Birth of Fiction'. Edouard d'Araille has previously translated work from French (Alain Robbe-Grillet) and German (Stefan Zweig), while 'Book of Jesus' (2024) is wholly based on the Koine Greek texts of the four New Testament evangelists. For those new to the writings of Edouard d'Araille, the volume 'Je Suis Poëte' (2021) - now available in a newly revised edition - provides a retrospective overview of 25 years of poetry, featuring core extracts from most of his full-length publications. Before embarking on a career in poetry, Edouard d'Araille directed the feature-length documentary 'Last Year at Marianské Lazné' [aka 'Hotel Marienbad'] (1998) about the literary and cinematic fiction of Alain Robbe-Grillet, a series of experimental short films entitled 'Déja Vu' (1999) as well as music videos for Irish singer-songwriter Johnny Cronin. He was screenwriter for the Arts Council film 'Subtitled', by Greek filmmaker Anastassios Kavassis, and is the screenwriter of forthcoming feature film 'Crime Trap' (2026). He lives in the English market town of Wem.

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