"These poems are so intellectually satisfying and emotionally touching
that they leave behind an abiding impression on the reader's mind."
(R. Bhagwan Singh in Cyber Literature, India)
"Ramsay speaks of the sacred and enduring in a world lost in the secular
and transient; of passion in a world that denies feeling, and of the currents
of joy that offer a constantly renewed faith in the power of love as an
agent of change." (Roselle Angwin in Kindred Spirit)
PS Avalon, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-9552786-9-3
120 pp, Demi 8vo 140x216mm
£10.00 (£8.00 with special introductory offer)
Vital to haiku is simple and immediate imagery that provokes us to stop and assess our own ëmomentí of life through its subject. Such is the essence of Angelika Roseís poems and, as with all good haiku, there is nothing extraneous, we are offered simple images and the space to contemplate their effect. We are challenged to face darkness (and, by implication, death) without becoming caught up in our existential anxieties about life. A haiku intends two possible effects: a spiritual realisation, and/or a reminder of our human condition. In this fine collection, Angelika Rose offers us the opportunity to experience both.
Mother of Pearl
Rose Flint
PS Avalon, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-9552786-6-2
140 pp, Demi 8vo 140x216mm
£10.00 (£9.00 with special introductory offer)
"Poems rich in transformative energy and human insight, both active and meditative imagining, a writer deeply engaged with language;
her poems question and sing, mourn and praise. An engagement both with the natural world and with human feeling distinguishes these poems which honour
the truths of flesh and spirit in equal measure. " (Penelope Shuttle, 2008)
Rose Flint writes poetry of that honours the truth of both flesh and spirit in equal measure and this, her latest collection, is mainly about women: magical women, healers, goddesses, mothers and daughters. Rose has a lyrical, magical way with words and poems within this collection have won both the Cardiff International and Petra Kenney International Poetry Competitions.
PS Avalon, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-9552786-5-5
204 pp, Demi 8vo 140x216mm
£12.00 (£9.60 with special introductory offer)
"You are an unlocker of imprisoned souls and true healer ... a great gift to our world
and the generation who are seeking for spiritual consciousness ... your poems spring
spontaneously from a pure well of life" (Kathleen Raine, letter to Jay)
Jay has been called Britainís foremost transformation poet. Themes in this exciting new collection include: a Chinese sacred mountain, Ireland
by bus, a beach in South Carolina, a suicide bomber, Maltese neolithic temples, Freudís Anna O, transgender, a black dog haunting, radical amnesia, the remembering
of soul, past lives, and love poems for the greater love. All the poems in this new selection from Jay move us into the present time which is truly the Out of Time
realm in which poetry has always told its best tales, and the poet in us (in all of us) is here to live.
"A passionate writer, aware, alive and strong" (Prime)
Caeia March, well-known feminist author,
has been called a storyteller of great sensitivity and this, her first collection
of poetry, fully supports this description. A passionate writer, Caeia shares
through her intensely moving poetry a story of self discovery that is uniquely
hers and yet touches depths of feeling and wisdom in us all. Poetry for
every woman and man who cares about relationship and will settle for no
less than the truth. Tantalising, sensual, tender and romantic.
To take a step beyond ‚ this is what this
exciting new anthology of Contemporary British Poetry invites you to do
at this time of transition. Rooted in the Romantic and visionary tradition,
these 64 poets form part of a powerful vanguard that is alive and well (and
mature) outside of the accepted mainstream. These poets are alive on the
page and in the mouth ‚ intelligent, committed, colourful, spiritually conscious
and awake to the edges of things in the clear seeing that poetry requires.
Above all, this is a poetry book for travellers re-negotiating the shape
of our lives as we reach the end of time, with all it means to be here and
in service of the Divine.
THE POETS Peter Abbs, Shanta Acharya, William Ayot, Roselle Angwin, Sebastian
Barker, Matthew Barton, Claudine Whiting Bloomfield, Peter Brennan, Richard
Burns, David Caddy, Anne Cluysenaar, Lisa Dart, Owen Davis, David Donaldson,
Diana Durham, Aidan Andrew Dun, Marion Fawlk, Carolyn Finlay, Rose Flint,
Cora Greenhill, David H.W. Grubb, Geoffrey Godbert, Jill Haas, Keith Hackwood,
Stephen Hall, Alyson Hallett, Adam Horovitz, Libby Houston, Alan Jackson,
Norman Jope, Georgina Yael Johnson, Nora Leonard, Grevel Lindop, Rupert
Loydell, Janis Mackay, Kevan Manwaring, Ruth Marshall, Paul Matthews, Anne
Brayton Meek, Jehanne Mehta, Gabriel Bradford Millar, Fiona Owen, Rosemary
Palmeira, Will Parfitt, Mario Petrucci, Louise Amelia Phelps, Jennie Powell,
Jay Ramsay, Angie Rawlinson, Ben Rayner, Peter Redgrove, Dee Rimbaud, Alan
Rycroft, Karen Eberhardt Shelton, Henry Shukman, Penelope Shuttle, Pauline
Stainer, Andrew Staniland, Kenneth Steven, Sally Thompson, Lucy Trevitt,
Daisy Tufnell, Philip Wells, Lynne Wycherley
"Sometimes you feel like some other human being has lived for a while
inside your head....An inspiring and liberating collection ... to return
to, to buy, read and give as gifts to friends" (Caeia March, Review)
Astonishingly rich poetry, full of spirit
and humour, these poems touch the reader at the deepest level. Rachael draws
much of her inspiration from nature and her love for the Goddess, as well
as from her Jewish background, and uses poetry to express different aspects
of the human journey: death and loss, family, relationships and she comments
with humour on the challenges of aging.