Casimir Greenfield's Slow Poison Shortlisted For Design Award

GLOUCESTER, U.K. - Sept. 24, 2015 - PRLog -- Casimir Greenfield’s self-published novel ‘Slow Poison’ has been shortlisted in Completely Novel’s ‘Lord of the Book Covers’ competition.

The voting form link is here; https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/P8DTKWD

Competition organiser Sarah Juckes reports; ‘Our judges have whittled down the entries to the Lord of the Book Covers competition, and now it's over to you to crown the winner before 18th October 2015.’

Judging criteria:

- How well the cover captures your attention as a thumbnail. (Click the link below the image to see a larger version of the cover, or to buy a copy of the book.)
- How well it conveys the book's genre.
- The quality of cover art, design and font.

The cover of my book, Slow Poison, has been shortlisted for an award.

The voting started today, so have a look at the entries and vote for the one you feel is best. Mine's in there too - you decide. Just follow the link to Lord Of The Covers;

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/P8DTKWD

Greenfield, a musician, broadcaster and writer is also an exhibition artist. The cover for his book ‘Slow Poison’ was created from a montage of a pastel work (The Body Invisible), combined with an element of field photography.

The cover captures well the sense of foreboding that permeates the book.

Set in both Amsterdam and the English Cotswolds, the book draws together five decades of connecting incidents in a taut, starkly European story of revenge.

The book jacket reads;

‘A killer waits for the perfect moment. Thirty years on, the moment has arrived.

Amsterdam, December 1985.

An unprovoked slaying and the subsequent arrest of a young football supporter sparks off an orgy of violence. But the boy is innocent.

The true killer commences a deadly campaign of vengeance rooted in a traumatic childhood incident.

Slow Poison culminates in a bloody siege, high in the snowbound Cotswold Hills.’

Casimir Greenfield

Gloucestershire based singer songwriter Casimir Greenfield released the new single, ‘Immortals’, on June 12th ahead of his forthcoming album ‘Boy In The Attic’ due in the autumn.

Cas recorded the album with the cream of local musicians at Ragged Moon Studios in Stroud and both the single and album will be released on the Ragged Moon label.

Cas has had a lifetime in music and recently a reel of archive recordings came to light, first committed to tape in the mid 1970s. Two of these songs have been re-mastered and augmented with new arrangements and vocals, with Cas accompanying his younger self on what is proving to be one of the longest recording sessions in pop music history.

Meanwhile, it is the single – ‘Immortals’ that will be in the spotlight on June the 12th. A song about hope in these often worrying times with the ultimate message that love is still what makes this amazing planet of ours go round!

With a video styled by acclaimed artist Ruben Ireland, ‘Immortals’ promises to be the surprise hit of the summer.

Cas was born at the end of the 1940s and began performing in the late 60s, with a career based in Europe where he supported artists such as Yes, Sparks, BB King. During that time he toured constantly throughout Europe, working solo and with his band.

A chance meeting with Keith Allen in 2012 brought Cas right back into the music scene. Cas and Keith wrote a few songs and performed just the once with Keith’s band. That was enough to unlock the latent song writing talent that had lain dormant in Cas for a long while.

Cas had been working on his painting and novels and out there in the real world making a way as a successful antique dealer and broadcaster. The songs that had served him so well as a younger man no longer seemed relevant until a new, fresh outpouring of lyric and melody coalesced into a handful of new songs, both fresh and age appropriate. And so, in the early spring of 2012 Cas returned to the studio and ‘A Twist Of Time’ was born.

The floodgates were open. Rare gigs, including a set as DJ and performer at Womad followed. Then came the birth of ‘Boy In The Attic’ – a concept album of sorts drawing in recordings from four decades, Cas harmonising with a younger self, working with current musicians, playing with time.

In the spring of 2013 work began in earnest on ‘Boy’. The recordings are now complete. Immortals is the first to emerge.

The story continues…

‘Immortals’ is the new single from Casimir Greenfield. ‘Immortals’ is taken from Cas’s forthcoming album ‘Boy In The Attic’ and is one of the most recent recordings from this extraordinary project.

‘Immortals’ is at once a celebratory song, a song of fear and dread, and ultimately, a song of hope.


Casimir Greenfield is a musician, author and broadcaster.

The new album 'Boy In The Attic' is due for a 20156 release' A Twist Of Time',  'Ghosts' and 'Five Seasons' are available now. The novel, 'Slow Poison' is available from Amazon.

Slow Poison cover art from 'The Body Invisible' by Casimir Greenfield (mixed media 1985)