George Harrisonโ€™s widow Olivia has written a book of poetry dedicated to her late husband.

The collection, titled Came The Lightening, contains 20 poems that Olivia penned to George following his death in 2001.

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The work is set for publication on June 21 via Genesis Publications and is available to pre-order here.

In a statement about the work, Olivia said: โ€œHere on the shore, 20 years later, my message in a bottle has reached dry land. Words about our life, his death but mostly love and our journey to the end.โ€

According to a statement from Genesis Publications, the poems will explore โ€œthe intimacy and emotional connectionโ€ of the Harrisonsโ€™ relationship, as well as โ€œdelve into the phenomenon of losing a partner and the passage of timeโ€. The collection will also contain some never-before-seen images of the couple.

Martin Scorsese, who directed a wide-ranging documentary about George called Living in the Material World and who has written the introduction to the book, said: โ€œOlivia 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.

โ€œShe might have done an oral history or a memoir. Instead, she composed a work of poetic autobiography.โ€

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A Beatles fan recently turned George Harrisonโ€™s childhood home into an Airbnb and a โ€œliving museumโ€.

Ken Lambert bought the property at 25 Upton Green in the suburb of Speke, Liverpool last November for around ยฃ171,000. According to the listing, Harrison lived at the three-bedroom house between 1949 and 1962.

The house was also used as a practice space for The Beatles, then known as The Quarrymen.