BOOKS

Lynne loves language and has been writing poetry for nearly fifty years, her study floor being testament to that! So far, she has three collections to her name – “Looking For Lamp-posts” about relationships, “In The Wake of Dying” which title needs no amplification, and the latest, published by Eye Wild Books, “The Ecstasy of Nature The Nature of Ecstasy” whose poems look beyond the seen, finding what they are looking for in the margins. She loves to play with words and even to dissect their formation in the mouth, discovering how that can illumine their meaning and impact. She has also written a short autobiography “Singing To Donkeys” based on her twenty-nine years of a working life with The Brooke Hospital for Animals (The Brooke). Her sources of inspiration for poetry can be a simple word or phrase or an entire journey or relationship; increasingly, a work of art will set her off or just something that makes her laugh. Waking in the night, she writes it down immediately. The poems seem to come from nowhere; she says she’s lucky if they actually go somewhere. Now she finds added enjoyment in singing rather than reciting some of her poetry, all ad lib music following the shape as the words wish to express themselves on that occasion. She finds a freedom in such spontaneity, which releases her from her classical training. There’s more to come.

Lynne's book can be purchased on application to Lynne Nesbit:email [email protected]. £12.50 plus post and packing.

Rosalynde Price has gathered in this collection a lifetime of poetry –from glimpses of a 1950s girlhood in Holst’s Brook Green, in West London, where she won her poetry spurs as a medal-winning reciter of poetry followed by training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, to country life today. The ‘expected’ career as a swinging-sixties dramatic actor was eclipsed by motherhood and the birth of her three lovely daughters and a move to Norwich and then Wales that marked a transition from City-Girl to the Country-Woman now settled in Suffolk Coastal. Most poets graduate from composing to then voicing their poetry but its clear in these poems that word-sound is as vital and natural as her meticulously crafted word-meanings which so often reveal the inner nature of things and an interest in people reflecting her practice as a Gestalt Psychotherapist. It is unusual for a poet to carry the creative flame for decades, many burn out but Roz, like R. S. Thomas, is as creative now as she ever was and dedicated to the Holy Grail of poetic excellence.
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As If Everything Were A Miracle’, is Peter Watkins second published collection of poems with Eye Wild Books. The poems were written during the Covid Pandemic of 2020/21 and reflect deeply on the consolations of the natural world. Seen through a wider lens they are an exploration of what it means to be human and our interconnection with the more than human world. Published December 2021 available to order now at £10.00 (plus postage and packing). Go to contacts page to purchase.

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This beautifully produced and illustrated book is almost overwhelming in its simplicity. The poems lack all poetic pretensions but the images and thoughts sparkle like dew on the grass in the early morning. Each of these poems is the fruit of one man's solitary walks and meditations and are unlike any other poetry in their immediacy. James Roose Evans, author of: Older - A Thought Diary; Inner Journey Outer Journey; A Life Shared; and Blue Remembered Hills. The books as objects, apart from content, are a delight!!

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HOPE - Pandora Re-Visited is the second publication by the Aldeburgh Arts Club Artists’ Collective, ’ The idea for this book came from a conversation some of the Aldeburgh Arts Club members had during one of our Zoom meetings as we continued through the second national lockdown. The topics I chose were Trees, Birds, Water, Change, Hope and Heritage.
All essential to our well-being as humans living on this extraordinarily beautiful, rich and diverse shared planet. It culminated in an exhibition with some of the artwork produced, at the Aldeburgh South Lookout Tower in August 2021.
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What an absolutely WONDERFUL book you have published, The idea of letting each artist get the chance to explain their background and the philosophy and insights behind such a wide variation of beauty! I think you have found a structural key for many books to come - where we get to know the artists on several levels, which again gives us a deeper understanding of the artworks.
Jan Christian Mollestad. Filmmaker & Writer, Mollywood Productions.

Look Out Locked In' is a beautifully illustrated A5 book of artworks with 119 colour pages. It is a collaboration between sixteen members of the Aldeburgh Arts Club luncheon group. Artists, poets, writers, bookmakers, potters, herbologist and makers, who came together in the spring of 2020 on zoom. They were set a subject matter for a period of eight weeks in which they could express in whatever creative form they might be inspired to use, story, photography, painting,drawing, journaling,poetry, exploring what it feels like to be in Lockdown and self isolating during this strangest of times.
A limited edition of 90. Price £10.00 (plus postage and packing).
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A sense of place has always been crucial to my writing. I was born in Pakefield, Suffolk, a coastal village at the southern end of the then thriving fishing port of Lowestoft - Norse names and on-shore fisher folk - in a house as close to the sea as could be, on a marly, sandy shifting cliffside, which is now a slope of a walk, to a shingle shift, seakale and no fisherfolk in sight, of the ever raging sometime calm, pigeon blue grey, chilly north sea.
My earliest memory is of the sun rising from an unusually calm blue summer's dead calm sea, my playground one of light, air and pebbles, the shingles shifting sound, ozone and bird call and salty seawater stinging and stimulating, or buoyant, uplfiting, when immersed in it's sandy softness. An unsure, on shore sort of world, certainly one of beauty. Water, nature, art, love and loss, family, to immerse within, to contemplate, to be balmed by - and that which still informs my writing. Kneeling In Dust was published 15th October 2020.
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Valerie Denton has been writing poetry for most of her life and has performed her poems at festivals, concerts and book launches. Much of her writing stems from meditation (TM) and from her interest in dance and music. She has worked as a creative writing tutor in adult education, which led to anthologies being produced. she also enjoys choral singing and is a member of a local choir.she has been a member of an African drumming group in Rendlesham, Suffolk. Peace Rose her latest poetry book was published August 2020 and is now available to order.
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Enough to Love a Multitude is Peter Watkins first published collection of poems. Many of his poetic motifs in the collection arise from the gentle landscape & slow rivers of Suffolk in which he finds divinity, solace, and inspiration. This collection is both personal & universal in its exploration of the vicissitudes of life and the soul’s journey through the archetypal dark wood.
It is about the consolation & redemption to be found in nature. Above all it is an invocation of love.
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The poems and paintings in this collection are a testament to Dave Martin’s profound and long lasting attachment to the coastal path of Pembrokeshire.
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Extract from SPS 12 Rivers magazine- review by Pat Jourdan
This is the voice of someone endlessly searching for a spirtual fulfilment, and looking for
clues and significance in the certainty of those rocks. The liminal, mystical floats over the precise scientific names of the rocks, era by era of geological time....Pre Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian worlds. Dave Martin's task is to knit the two - like sky and soil together. Each poem shows a different approach which he likens to a pilgrimage.
He is seeking a deeper spiritual meaning in poem after poem with the working of a deeper symmetry and sees Wales itself at the horizon of time/where the birth of myth meets/The jagged thrust of rock.
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'Conversations With Birds', my first collection of poetry grew out of my writing the title poem of that name and the realisation that birds featured in so much of my writing that they were a unifying factor and deserved to be gathered together.
What is it about birds that they lend so much to poetic expression? What do they represent to us, freedom, spirituality, a direct connection to the natural world?
As a child I was obsessed with birds, I knew their haunts, their flights, their calls. I had no doubt that at some level beyond language I had direct connection with them so when my grandfather with whom I had a very close relationship passed away I did not doubt that when a jackdaw perched on my shoulder as I waited for the school bus this was his way of saying goodbye. We live through our minds and what is real to them guides much of our life and need not be the same as or in conflict with the physical world. They are two of what may be many realities that can coexist and for me the poems in 'Conversations With Birds' are where they can come together.
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