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POETRY BOOKS

Poetry relevant to our times,
contemplative, inspirational
and with a dark, challenging edge.

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Homuncular Misfit

David Greenslade

 

 

 

PS Avalon, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-9562162-7-4
140 pp, Demi 8vo 140x216mm
£10.00 20% Discount - £8.00

 

 

 

"David Greenslade is an extraordinary, shamanistic, performer of his work; and a writer of a different order …. his latest book, Homuncular Misfit is, true to form, both bonkers and brilliant… the poetry invites favourable comparison with the very best of British poetry currently being published, with a hybrid strain of influence from North American and classical Japanese poets (Greenslade lived in Japan in his twenties and is an ordained Zen monk) as well, of course, as that recurrent dipping into Welsh language and mythology." (Richard Gwyn)

 

David Greenslade writes with passion and intensity yet is always eminently readable. His poems brings spirit into matter and offer a powerful alchemical transformation wherein both darker and lighter aspects of life can be experienced in their beauty and truth.

 

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Sample poems from Homuncular Misfit

 

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The Inheritance

William Ayot

 

 

 

PS Avalon, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-9562162-5-0
140 pp, Demi 8vo 140x216mm
£10.00 20% Discount - £8.00

 

 

 

"William Ayot’s poetry is like the man himself: intelligent, unpretentious, accessible. His concerns are immediately recognisable, and his verse’s energy and sustained focus consistently bring his subject matter to a satisfactory conclusion. There is little inconsequentiality and much passion, though the emotion is kept sensitively under control." (Paul Groves)

 

We all have an inheritance and many of us struggle to speak our truth. Clear, direct and accessible, these poems chart a journey from a largely unconscious and wounded victimhood to a hard-won self-awareness and acceptance. Written to be spoken, they are affirming, comforting and occasionally enlightening for people concerned with their own struggles and obsessions

 

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Sample poems from The Inheritance

 

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Mother of Pearl

Rose Flint

Selected Poems

 

PS Avalon, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-9552786-6-2
140 pp, Demi 8vo 140x216mm
£10.00 20% Discount - £8.00

 

 

 

"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.

 

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Sample poems from Mother of Pearl

 

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moonseanight

 

Caeia March

Selected Poems

 

PS Avalon, 2007
ISBN: 978-0-9552786-3-1
136 pp, Demi 8vo 140x216mm
£10.00

 

 

 

"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.

 

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Sample poems from moonseanight

 

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She Who Walks with Stones and Sings

 

Rachael Clyne

Selected Poems

 

PS Avalon, 2006
ISBN: 978-0-9544764-6-8
112 pp, Demi 8vo 140x216mm
£10.00

 

 

 

"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.

 

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Sample poems from She Who Walks with Stones and Sings

 

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Out of Time

Jay Ramsay

Poems 1998-2008

 

PS Avalon, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-9552786-5-5
204 pp, Demi 8vo 140x216mm
£12.00 20% Discount - £9.60

 

 

 

"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)

 

Britain’s foremost transformation poet, Jay Ramsay, in this exciting new collection delights us with subjects including: a Chinese sacred mountain, Ireland by bus, a beach in South Carolina, a suicide bomber, Maltese neolithic temples, Freud’s 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.

 

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U.K. £9.60 Europe £12.00 Rest of World £14.40

 

 

Sample poems from Out of Time

 

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Into The Further Reaches

 

an anthology of
Contemporary British Poetry
celebrating the spiritual journey

edited by Jay Ramsay

PS Avalon, 2007
ISBN: 978-0-9552786-1-7
252 pp, Crown 189x246mm
£15.00 10% Discount - £13.50

 

 

 

"An ambitious, wide-ranging anthology" (Peter Abbs, Resurgence)
"Readers will be surprised so much good spiritual poetry is being written...There is much beautiful, evocative lyricism in the volume as well asreflections on the rhythms and cycles of life." (Scientific and Medical Network)

 

 

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

 

 

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Still The Blackbird Sings

Angelika Rose

Haiku

 

PS Avalon, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-9552786-9-3
120 pp, Demi 8vo 140x216mm
£12.00 20% Discount - £8.00

 

 

 

"Doctor's prescription: read one of these poems a day before mealtimes (preferably breakfast). Let the thoughts provoked by the poem swirl round your head whilst sitting on the train or driving/walking to work. Then see how the rest of your day is put into clearer perspective." (Tim Parsons, Amazon)

 

 

Vital to haiku is simple and immediate imagery that provokes us to stop and assess our own 'moment' of life through its subject. Such is the essence of Angelika Rose's 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.

 

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Tap Dancing To The Sunrise

Timothy Hodor

PS Avalon, 2006
106 pp 140x216mm
£10.00

 

 

 

 

"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)

 

 

 

Timothy Hodor's poetry immerses the reader in a pool of sadness filled with feelings of a profound and inexplicable loss, reminding us of the tenuous nature of existence and of how the poet functions as a gatekeeper between eternities. Hodor's poems, dedicated to the memory of his beloved mother, engage one of poetry's most ancient themes, that life is the mother of death. The poems are so intellectually satisfying and emotionally touching that they leave behind an abiding impression on the reader's mind.

 

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Sample poems from Tap Dancing To The Sunrise

 

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100 Sonnets of Galactic Love

Keith Hackwood

PS Avalon, 2004
120 pp 140x216mm
£10.00

 

 

 

"Love poetry in the great lyrical tradition. Anyone who likes Rilke, Lorca, Neruda, will like this collection. Have you ever been in love? Well, no matter. Buy this if you're from Mars and would like to know why Earth-people walk around grinning and sobbing."(Amazon review)

 

Evoking the archetype of the original feminine ...opening to the divinityin another... words embodied with meaning, carriers of endless possibility."

 

 

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Sample poems from 100 Sonnets of Galactic Love

 

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Through the Gates of Matter

Will Parfitt

PS Avalon, 2003
116 pp 140x216mm
£10.00

 

 

 

All the imagery and experiences in the leading poems in this collection were inspired through entering total inner silence from where other realms which are co-existent with our own everyday reality become accessible.

There are several sets of poems in this collection. The poems in the first set, Through the Gates of Matter, were inspired during altered states of consciousness whilst walking at Dundon Beacon near Glastonbury, England. The final revision of took place during my wait for a major surgical operation. I have found them both comforting and challenging in my dance with death. The remaining poems are selected from a lifetime of poetry writing.

 

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U.K. £5.00 Europe £7.00 Rest of World £9.00

Sample poems from Through the Gates of Matter

 

 

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Charon's Hammer

Keith Hackwood

PS Avalon, 2004
108 pp 189x246mm
£10.00

 

 

 

 

Contemplative, inspirational poetry with a dark cutting edge. this book offers the reader an opportunity to break bread and risk a tap dance with a man so in love with the world as to permit moonlight to sleep in his ears. Arch-druid of images, Hackwood tends and suckles the ugly and the beautiful alike with a metaphysician's fractal tenderness and a mother's devoted impunity. He just might change your life!

 

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Sample poems from Charon's Hammer

 

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Out of Print:
The Hearts's Ragged Evangelist - Jay Ramsay
Dead Leaves - Owen Ahrmanian
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