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  Burnscripts - Dramatic...

  John Cairney

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  This publication is actor John Cairney's life with Robert Burns in theatrical terms. Since 1959, he has been involved with Burns as actor, director and writer. Over the years, Cairney has taken the opportunity to investigate different aspects of Burns as they relate to performance in the theatre. For the first time he has brought all these working playscripts, which have already been tested before a live audience, together in book form. Others interested in the prismatic attraction that is Scotland's Bard can now see how one Scottish actor-writer has dealt with a national icon theatrically. The scripts, written by Cairney, look at Burns' creative work, his everyday life, and his relationships, to build a full picture of the man so important to Scotland's cultural heritage. The plays are followed by an appendix which features a selection of plays written about Burns' life since his death at the age of 37.BACK COVER The overall impression gained in studying Burns' work as a whole is that, given the brevity of his life, it is extraordinary not that he wrote so much, but that so much of it was good. JOHN CAIRNEY Burnscripts is a collection of dramatic scripts by John Cairney interpreting the life and works of Robert Burns.Cairney, as actor, author and scriptwriter, has been connected professionally with Robert Burns for nearly half a century. He has performed as Burns all over the world and consequently knows him better than most. This personal exploration of Burns' life and work in performance helps to build a fuller picture of the poet and is an insightful celebration of one of Scotland's most important cultural icons.

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  Mother | Line

  Ankita Saxena

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  What do we inherit from our mothers? From our grandmothers? From the legacy of colonisation and empire? Mother | Line, Ankita Saxena's debut poetry collection, charts lineage in all its forms, delving into female rage, compassion, and endurance. Drawing on the author's British Asian heritage and experiences growing up as a woman in an increasingly violent world, this collection weaves together the personal and the political in ghazals, odes and specular poems, which hold a mirror to the world and to themselves. "We are daughters of Kali", Saxena writes, and "mothers linger on the sides, hearing us become them; / our routines only theirs to thank for, our spices, / our blends, and even our greedy tongues.
  "A sublime and considered collection, speaking to, and spanning lineage, inheritance, friendship; what it can mean to be a girl, a woman in the world — across continents, oceans, time." - Rachel Long

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  Dream Drawings - Configurations...

  N. Scott Momaday

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  “Momaday must be ranked among the greatest of our contemporary writers.”—American Scholar 
  From Pulitzer Prize winner and revered literary master N. Scott Momaday, a beautiful and enchanting new poetry collection, at once a celebration of language, imagination, and the human spirit. 
  “Language and the imagination work hand in hand, and together they enable us to reveal us to ourselves in story. That is indeed a magical process. . . . We imagine and we dream, and we translate our dreams into language.” —from the Preface 
  A singular voice in American letters, Momaday’s love of language and storytelling are on full display in this brilliant new collection comprising one hundred sketches or “dream drawings”—furnishings of the mind—as he calls them. Influenced by his Native American heritage and its oral storytelling traditions, here are prose poems about nature, animals, warriors, and hunters, as well as meditations that explore themes of love, loss, time, and memory. Each piece, full of wisdom and wonder, showcases Momaday’s extraordinary lyrical talent, the breadth of his imagination, and the transformative power of his writing.  
  Poignant, inspired, and timeless, this is a collection that will nourish the soul.

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  Reversing Entropy

  Luci Shaw

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  From the pen of beloved poet Luci Shaw comes a new collection that celebrates inspired creativity as an antidote to chaos.
  The poet' s own words best describe the heart of this pinnacle collection of new work by beloved writer Luci Shaw:
  Entropy: A measure of the molecular disorder, or randomness, of a system, its lack of order or predictability, resulting in a gradual decline into disorder.
  Our universe, and the systems within it, constantly shift from their created states of order towards disorder, or chaos. The second law of thermodynamics asserts that entropy, or disorder, always increases with time. Creative human activities such as art, architecture, music, story or film are human efforts to halt and reverse this loss of meaning. Thus, smaller systems, like individual poems, become highly ordered as they receive energy from outside themselves, from the poet. They reverse entropy because they are moving from a state of disorder (all the random ideas, words and phrases available to the writer) into an orderly form designed by the writer to create meaningful images and concepts in the reader' s mind (which is where the word " imag-ination" comes from.) This transfer of images, concepts and ideas into the mind of a reader is the task of poetry and the calling of the poet. Just as a composer of music gathers rhythms, notes, melodies, or harmony, organizing them into fugues or sonatas or concertos, so poets work and write to discover ways of arranging their responses to the world in words that introduce meaning and beauty in the mind of the reader.
  Which is what I' ve been trying to do for most of my life.

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  Poems for Newlyweds - Love poems...

  Christopher Marlowe

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  The meeting, the courtship, the wedding and the honeymoon have all now been completed. 
   
  Having got this far the real journey lays before every married couple seeking the love, stability, support and joys of a long-term relationship.  The state of the newly-weds is now at hand.  The meeting of minds and the living together can become a source of friction or ignition to a deeper understanding.  Physically the very first blush of lust and desire is replaced by an understanding that life and our own biological and emotional clocks, for some, may now require that children be brought into the mix and families raised. 
   
  Yes, that interlude when the bliss of being a newly-wed – announced and seen as such to a wider society – really doesn’t last that long.  Time to savour the days and nights of love’s sweet wonder. 
   
  Our classic poets, of course, have much to say and advise on.  With the storied likes of Christopher Marlowe, Khalil Gibran, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and even George Orwell then the listener is in wise and knowing hands. 
   
  01 - Poems for Newly-Weds - An Introduction 
  02  - On Marriage by Khalil Gibran 
  03 - I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale 
  04 - Love is Not All (Sonnet XXX) by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  05 - A Bridal Toast by James Madison Bell 
  06 - Wedding Song by Jehudah Halevi 
  07 - Epithalamion by James Elroy Flecker 
  08 - Epithalamion by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  09 - Wedding Day by Edith Nesbit 
  10 - Rose of All the World by D H Lawrence 
  11 - Wedded by Isaac Rosenberg 
  12 - He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven by W B Yeats 
  13 - A Bridal Song by John Ford 
  14 - To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet 
  15 - An Extract of the Wife's Will by Charlotte Bronte 
  16 - Sonnet to My Wife by Thomas Hood 
  17 - To a Husband by Anne Kingsmill Finch 
  18 - On Love by Khalil Gibran 
  19 - Two Lovers by George Eliot 
  20 - Love's Unity by Alfred Austin 
  21 - Spiritual Love by Alfred Austin 
  22 - The Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell 
  23 - Sonnet 116 - Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds by William Shakespeare 
  24 - To The Beloved by Alice Meynell 
  25 - Beloved by Hafiz 
  26 - Vice Vearsa by Ambrose Bierce 
  27 - Romance by George Orwell 
  28 - Mutual Forebearance. Necessary to the Married State by William Cowper 
  29 - Sonnet 143 - Lo, As a Careful Housewife Runs to Catch by Willaim Shakespeare 
  30 - Bridal Birth by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  31 - I Love You by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  32 - A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns 
  33 - A White Rose by John Boyle O'Reilly 
  34 - Fidelity by D H Lawrence 
  35 - Unending Love by Tagore 
  36 - How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  37 - He Bids His Beloved Be at Peace by W B Yeats 
  38 - My True Love Hath My Heart and I Have His by Sir Phillip Sidney 
  39 - One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand by Edmund Spenser 
  40 - A Birthday by Christina Rossetti 
  41 - She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron 
  42 - When I Too Long Have Looked Upon Your Face by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  43 - Falling Stars by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  44 - Bright Star by John Keats 
  45 - Beauty That is Never Old by James Weldon Johnson 
  46 - The Good Morrow by John Donne 
  47 - When You Are Old by W B Yeats 
  48 - The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear

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  The Poetry of John Gould...

  John Gould Fletcher

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  John Gould Fletcher was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on the 3rd of January 1886 to a socially prominent family.  
   
  He was educated at Phillips Academy, Andover before advancing to Harvard University, which he attended from 1903 to 1907, before dropping out after his father's death. 
   
  As a young man Fletcher spent many years in England where he became part of the influential Imagist group of poets together with Amy Lowell and Ezra Pound.   
   
  His first marriage came from a resumed relationship with the now married Florence Emily ‘Daisy’ Arbuthnot.  Her adultery with Fletcher was the grounds for her divorce.  They married on 5th July 1916 but later divorced.  
   
  Fletcher first published in 1912, with ‘The Dominant City’ to much praise and admiration and followed this with other well-regarded volumes such as ‘Irradiations: Sand and Spray’, and ‘Goblins and Pagodas’. 
   
  In the late 1920s and 1930s Fletcher became increasingly active with a group of Southern writers and poets known as the Southern Agrarians. They published the classic ‘I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition’. 
   
  Although he was highly regarded as a poet, he was not very prolific.  However, such was the undoubted quality that in 1939 he received the Pulitzer Prize for his work ‘Selected Poems’.  He was the first poet from the south to receive such an accolade.  Fletcher’s other passion and pursuit was as an authority on modern painting, a subject on which he also published. 
   
  A second marriage followed in 1936 to the children’s author, Charlie May Simon.  They built ‘Johnswood’, a residence on the bluffs of the Arkansas River and travelled frequently to New York for shots of modern culture and intellectual stimulation as well as to the American West and South for the climate after Fletcher developed chronic arthritis. 
   
  In 1937 he wrote his autobiography, ‘Life is My Song’. 
   
  His developing passion for his roots and background resulted in the writing of a history of his State and published in 1947; ‘Arkansas’. 
   
  By now Fletcher was suffering from bouts of depression and on 10th May 1950, he committed suicide by drowning himself in a pond near his home in Little Rock, Arkansas.  He was 64.

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