Today, George Harrison's Widow Olivia Harrison announced she will be releasing a book of 20 poems inspired by the late musician. The book titled Came the Lightening comes on the 20th year of his passing and will be released on June 21 via Genesis Publications.
According to Genesis Publications, the poems featured in Came the Lightening examine the deep intimacy and emotional connection of the Harrisons’ shared and explores Olivia's experience after "losing a partner and the passage of time.” Came the Lightening also includes photographs and remembrances curated by Olivia, including never-before-seen images.
“Here on the shore, 20 years later, my message in a bottle has reached dry land,” Olivia said of Came the Lightening in a release. “Words about our life, his death but mostly love and our journey to the end.”
Director Martin Scorsese, who wrote the introduction for the book said in a statement: “Olivia evokes the most fleeting gestures and instants, plucked from the flow of time and memory and felt through her choice of words and the overall rhythm. She might have done an oral history or a memoir. Instead, she composed a work of poetic autobiography.”
Came the Lightening, is available to preorder now and includes a limited-edition printing signed and numbered by Olivia. Preorder here.
