Sicilian Haiku:

“We are all migrants on this fragile blue planet” 

This collection of poems, written mostly in Haiku, weaves through mythical and modern Sicily, probing a world of fractured selves, memes and monsters, but with the world-wide theme of migrants at its heart. The poems can be read separately or together as one narrative, reading like a novel.

A passionate call to action, this unique book probes our private and public odysseys, how we share and define ourselves, how we give value to our own lives, the lives of others, and our planet. Set in Sicily, it’s a mix of many stories—migrants meet tourists, junkies and cannibals, while gods and goddesses mate with mortals, and it’s hard to separate consumers from the consumed. 

About the Author 

Freddie Omm has lived in Holland, Indonesia, the USA, Italy, the UK and Germany—a lifelong migrant and expatriate, a native of nowhere who’s written all over the world. His writings explore the edge of identity: his first novel, Honour, is a dark comic thriller about how people in diverse cultures—east, west, multi and between—are driven and damaged by different conceptions of right living and honour.

In addition to The Dark Gospel series, he’s also working on several extended sequences of poems, including the Ukrainian-themed “Along Came a War”, with Kiev-based Ukrainian photographer Bogdana Bunn, with all profits going to Ukraine, and “Archipelagoes (Memories of Java)”, focussing on his childhood and his family’s past in Indonesia.