Verse – Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers

Sonnets

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 06:13:20 +0000

“A silver lantern in the heavens is hung, The crescent bow set high above the trees; Its arching radiance into space is sung And by its gentle light the lover sees. Bright stars the luminescent heav’ns adorn, The moonlit dew lies glistening on the grass; So fleeting hours of night that speed t’ward dawn Are touched withlustrous beauty as they pass.” Extract from a Sonnet The sonnet…

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A Cascade of Stars

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 07:07:06 +0000

A cascade of stars Set against a shade of night To beautify your day. In Cascade of Stars the well-known Yoga teacher and author Mira Mehta explores the worlds of nature and human nature with sensitivity, freshness, imagination and wit. The hundred or so poems in this collection range over a wide variety of subjects. Unusually, they combine a classical structure with a modern style.

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This Way Once: A Book of Yesterday

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:56 +0000

The culmination of a lifetime’s work, this is a collection of poetry, prose and visual art that keeps body, mind and spirit together, a rich summation of ideas, thoughts and philosophy. Their common theme is a respect for life and an affinity with what endures throughout the years, bringing an empathetic solace and strength in time of need. This book finally became possible after so many years…

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Twenty Most Favourite Songs of Burns

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:56 +0000

Fortunate is the man who has been able to realise his childhood dreams. This beautiful book is the result of Andrew Winton’s long cherished dream – “to pass on some of the pleasures I got from Burns’ songs.” As a child, he had the North Lanarkshire moors as a playground, listening to the calls and singing of the birds, lying in beds of wild thyme and heathers beside cool, clear burns – while at…

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Sketches Sartorial, Tonsorial and the Like

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:54 +0000

St Claire Bullock – a Professor of Philosophy, no less – in the intervals between pondering the great questions of life, turned his hand to penning light verse in the manner of Hilaire Belloc, Ogden Nash and Edward Lear. In rhyming couplets these wry and witty poems ponder the foibles and vanities of mortals. Some of these are captured in pen and ink drawings which caricature the subject of the…

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Edward Thomas: A Mirror of England

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:29:57 +0000

When he was killed in action, Edward Thomas was mourned as an essayist, biographer and one of the foremost critics of his time, but his reputation as a poet had not yet been established. The discovery of his talent for poetry, sparked off by his meeting with the American poet Robert Frost on the eve of the First World War, was a turning point in his life. After sixteen years of frustration and…

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