Longlisted for the ReLit Award (2005)

Honeymoon in Berlin examines the extremes of human desire, and investigates the human fascination with limits, the line between courage and fear, life and death.

Praise for Honeymoon in Berlin:

"A book of bold contrasts, Honeymoon in Berlin is simultaneously beautiful and ugly, alluring and repulsive. It's an achievement. It's art." (Front & Centre)

"An utterly fearless riff on a very dark vision. Honeymoon in Berlin is all high wire and no net. I liked it, felt guilty, then liked it more." (Michael Dennis, author of This Day Full of Promise and Fade to Blue)

"In Honeymoon in Berlin, Walmsley evokes a twilight world where men and women furtively tap away at keyboards, trying to connect with each other, but also with their own deepest impulses. A tense, disturbing sequence of poems, this pared-down masterpiece is packed with the stuff of a full-length novel: it is about death and shit and love and hope." (Stuart Ross)

Tom Walmsley won the first Three Day Novel contest in 1979 with his novel Doctor Tin; its sequel, Shades, which also contained the original novel, was published in 1992. His novel Kid Stuff was published in 2003. He's also the author of the poetry collections Lexington Hero and Rabies, the plays The Jones Boy, Blood, and Something Red, and the screenplay of the film Paris, France. He lives in Toronto.

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Sandy McLelland is the illustrator of Honeymoon in Berlin, by Tom Walmsley, published by Anvil Press.

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