This new album breathes new life into Brel’s catalog, balancing reverence with fresh, modern energy. It features Beckett on vocals, spoken word, and piano alongside long-time collaborator Stuart Anthony.
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HOLOGRAPH
This remarkable collection occupies a rare space between scientific exposition and lyric poetry.
“The equations belong to physicists. The wonder belongs to everyone. These poems live in the space between what we can prove and what we can feel.” - Megan Dalgaard, Author
“Holograph feels like science fiction sprung from the mind of a creature born on another world. It grabs you with imagery that challenges you to think about the universe in a different way. Beckett offers the kind of poetry you can read over and over…” - Steve McEllistrem, Author
Drawing on some of the most mind-bending concepts in modern physics—the Bekenstein bound, the holographic principle, quantum entanglement—the poems don’t simplify the science; rather, they inhabit it, finding images and rhythms that make the mathematics feel felt rather than merely understood. The collection rewards two kinds of readers: those fluent in the physics, who will recognize the precision beneath the imagery, and those who come purely as readers of poetry, who will find the language and feeling sufficient without needing to parse a single equation.
I lay my head on your young breast still hammering from our latest kisses. In the calm after that sweet tempest, let me drift off as you drowse.
-Paul Verlaine
As Announced In
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY:
Romances Without Words / In Solitary
Including The First Ever Translation into English of
The Complete Original Prison Text In Solitary
Livingston Press Releases
Brought together in a single volume, these books show the course of Verlaine’s affair with Arthur Rimbaud, both positive and negative. Romances Without Words is dedicated to Rimbaud and In Solitary moves through the relationship to its end.
Romances Without Words - Poetry as Music
This work explores love and travel where the poems evoke a feeling from the sound of the words, a feeling that is more important than the words’ meaning - a new kind of poetry that’s very edgy even today. Beckett stays true to this aesthetic by focusing on the music Verlaine created, letting meaning go. Verlaine’s original dedication to Rimbaud has been restored.
In Solitary - Violence to Redemption
Written while in prison for having shot Rimbaud, here Verlaine moves from the intensity of his actions and the resulting imprisonment all the way to seeking redemption through religion. In this work he justifies his book Romances Without Words saying “music above all”. And it contains many of his lyric masterpieces.
Videos of the three singles “Song of the Old Lovers”, “I Love You”, and “Don’t Walk Away” Available on all streaming platforms. For U.K. CD orders head to Bandcamp
Though We Have Only Love
A tribute to the legendary Belgian singer and actor Jacques Brel,
Available on all streaming platforms including Amazon Music * Deezer * Tidal * Spotify
The Songs of Jacques Brel
AVAILABLE NOW!
“for the score of the moon / that is so like your song / I love you”
Performance at PNC Live Studio Dec 12, 2025
Larry Beckett and special guest Tim Jensen performed live on the PNC Live Studio stage.
Watch and Listen to the individual songs and catch the fascinating Q&A on Youtube.
Hear Larry’s live performance of his ‘Song to the Siren’ (available on his CD ‘Last Session at Studio B) and the first live performances of songs from the upcoming album "Though We Have Only Love: The Songs of Jacques Brel" (translations by Larry Beckett, album performances by Stuart Anthony and Larry Beckett).
Premier music and entertainment magazine highlights Larry’s Jacques Brel translations
“In the album, and the book of his chansons, the world is excoriated for war, hypocrisy, lust, betrayal, always returning to the hope of redemption through love: love lost, ongoing, fugitive, lifelong. For me, and for anyone, after the last song, it’s love that resonates: Though We Have Only Love.”
Beckett translated all the lyrics from French to English, capturing the original meaning and essence while bringing a fresh perspective. In this conversation, he reflects on what drew him to Brel, the challenges of faithful translation, and the enduring interplay of poetry and song in his work.
Song to the Siren
The best of Larry Beckett's lyrics of the past fifty years, conceived as poems that can be sung.
Lyrics in many forms: ode, cycle, carol, hymn, ballad, serenade, erotica, blason, aria, blues, lullaby, elegy.
And what do This Mortal Coil, Tim Buckley, Peter Buck, Robert Plant, Bryan Ferry, George Michael, Sinead O'Connor, Kitty Macfarlane, Eyelids, Stuart Anthony (and many more) all have in common? They’ve all performed songs from this book. An appendix with music sources and recording history for each lyric is included.
And you can now hear Larry’s own performance of a number of these lyrics, recorded in the studio and with the same piano and equipment where Elvis recorded his second album. Available on all streaming services.
Last Session at Studio B
Order The Book of Merlin today!
The lost poetry of the real Merlin. Merlin was a 6th-century poet in northwest Britain known as Myrddin Wyllt, or Merlin of the Wilds. This translation is the first time that his surviving words have been gathered in one manuscript since The Book of Merlin was lost in the 12th century.
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