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Poetry A Brief Poetry of Time (Oversteps Books, 2016) more > |
Leaping & Staggering
A collection which the literary magazine Westwords' called "impressive", the events publication Event South-West called "an impressive debut", and the Grauniad newspaper called "Leaning & Staggering". Close this item In The Stillness
A sequence of 16 poems based on the writings of the 14th century English mystic, Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love. Robert Llewelyn, the then chaplain of the Julian Cell in Norwich, wrote of them that "they admirably catch the spirit of Julian and illuminate aspects of her teaching". Please use the PayPal option below to purchase this title Click HERE for sample. Close this item Still Staggering
The titular sequel to Leaping & Staggering, the highlight of which is the set of five 'Falcon Sonnets' that according to the reviewer in The Dart "startle and delight". The book, he continues, "...is a wonderful collection, that contains much I will treasure and re-read". Regrettably, this title is also currently out-of-print, but the Falcon Sonnets are included in the later collection 'The Logic of Whistling'. Regrettably, this title is currently out-of-print. Close this item Echoes of Eckhart
A set of 74 short, pithy poems - haiku-like in quality - based on the teachings of the 13th/14th century German mystic, Meister Eckhart. Please use the PayPal option below to purchase this title Invocations
A set of 40 meditative poems in the tradition of the 'Advent Antiphons', but incorporating symbolism from creation, science, technology and human psychology. A Swedish edition Anrop has appeared (Verbum, 2006) which includes an extra 'Invocation' dedicated to Sweden's greatest - or at least most famous - export: O Abba. Please use the PayPal option below to purchase this title The Melting Woman
A collection with the long title poem at its heart, about which the literary magazine Odyssey wrote "(the title poem) is worth getting the book for alone, but Richard Skinner is a skilful poet and the rest of the collection is especially satisfying with several good, lyrical, contemplative, sometimes humorous pieces to enjoy". Regrettably, this title is currently out-of-print. Close this item The Logic of Whistling
A set of 18 poems in homage to RS Thomas opens this collection, which is closed by ten speculations on the 'gap' between the finger of God and the finger of Adam in Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam. In between are poems on, among other things, a garden pond, Wittgenstein, solitude, Russian icons, as well as a prize winning sestina on the comedian Peter Cook. Please use the PayPal option below to purchase this title From The Logic of Whistling
Lacking the Latin I've never attempted to achieve my potential - Peter Cook A cap, a mac, a monotone were all That you required to make us cry with laughter: Ignoramus Pete, a pompous judge, Wisty with his Interesting Facts, Sir Arthur teaching ravens how to fly In water, a foul-mouthed yob, a leaping nun. Would-be copycats appeared, but none But we admirers soon became you judge A comic Icarus who'd tried to fly Yet when we come at last to face the facts Perhaps we too should now dismiss with laughter Laughter is just laughter. A fly's a fly. From Invocations
O DNA spring of life, coiled for life, cell-centre's delicate thread untwisting, re-twisting, spiralling down through generations; you are the code of our being: come, coil in our soul-centre, transcribe yourself in the nucleus of our will. O Seahorse O CD-ROM From Echoes of Eckhart
![]() Says God Hope you like the Gift. Unwrapping it Meister Eckhart finds Eternity In the present.Happy Birthday! Says God Hope you like the Gift. Unwrapping it Meister Eckhart finds Eternity In the present.
A beggar approaches Meister Eckhart stops From In the Stillness
The Web of God No-one can separate himself from anyone else - Julian of Norwich The Father's love creates for us that shimmers in the Spirit's breath, Wherever may the Lord so choose Thereby each soul receives and shares From Leaping & Staggering
The Chemistry Lesson Our benches were maps of unknown worlds: sprawling continents of chromic stains, oceans shaped by acid splashes. Swan-necked taps arose as gods, cabbalistic glassware crammed the cupboards. The retort was always my favourite piece: clamped to its stand, a Bunsen flame licking its bulbous buttock, a lethal concoction seething within, an oily distillate trickling down its Pinocchio nose. Experiments designed to demonstrate the basic laws would often prove the opposite: mass was not conserved, valences were rarely simple integers, composition never constant. Our written work was full of faked results, Q.E.D.'s unjustified by data, diagrams of over-perfect apparatus equations copied out of books: the tidy world of what-should-be. In later life, I tried to falsify a love-affair, make it fit the theory of eternal happiness. She left, and thus confirmed the old dichotomy between a theory and a fact. Close this item A Brief Poetry of Time Please use the PayPal option below to purchase this title Sonnet VII In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) But what of other seasons in the year? So let the young swing from the chandeliers! |
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