Hecatombs
by Sean M. Huber

Eclipse
The sun burned high at noon
And the grass ran in the wind,
An inferno of green movement.
At one,
The sky grew utter black.
The moon swallowed the sun
And vultures swam in the midnight current
The glint of their wings occulted
In the sudden rush.
The infernal blades
Of the tall grass
Hid something infinitely
darker
A glossy drop of wing and feather
Obsidian stone pearled
In blood and blood matted
In the broken jaw
A dead crow
Swallowing the light
Of the buried sun
With photographs by Chris Friel
out now
Stapled booklet, 36 pages, 148 x 206
ISBN: 978-1-915908-09-4
Release date 10 / 07 / 25

About the authors
S. M. H
Sean M. Huber is a writer working in the interstitial spaces of fear, death and the sacred. His work is an attempt to grapple with the terror inherent in sacred experience, the dark cosmos rattling in the grave of the human body. He has published several chapbooks through various small presses including The Extinction Cycle, The Agony of the Sun, Rituals and On Appeasing Angry Gods on Void Front Press, Psalms on Selffuck and Cicatrization under the pseudonym S.M.H and his first novella Sacra, from Infinity Land Press.
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Chris Friel was born in Bristol in 1959. Alongside a successful career as a documentary sound recordist for film and television, Friel’s photographic work has been shown all over the world, including the South Bank Centre, London, the Santiago Subway in Chile, and accompanying the London Sinfonietta at the Royal Festival Hall. His pictures have been featured in The Times, The Guardian, the Wall Street Journal and Rolling Stone Magazine, to name but a few, and he has been shortlisted for the Sunday Times Landscape Photographer of the Year award three times.
Friel has collaborated with many other artists, including British composer, Matthew Herbert, Grammy-nominated guitarist/composer Kevin Kastning, French post-rock band, Les Discrets, and most recently, Australian poet, S.J. Finn.
In 2022, Friel’s exhibition Hypergraphia was one of the largest photographic exhibitions ever held, comprising 150,000 images presented as a series of immersive slideshows.
Friel lives and works in rural Kent. https://www.cfriel.com/home