This volume of poetry brings together poems throughout history with very special women. The relationship with our Mother is one of the most powerful many of us will ever feel. It rivals those with our children and partners in a way that both permeates and challenges how and on what terms we live our lives. A woman giving birth is not only bringing life into the World, she is doing so, usually, at great pain to herself. The fact that this is transformed within minutes of birth to a deep, unconditional love is truly beautiful. Whatever the future brings for Mother or child that bond will hold. The first attempts at language by babies is usually 'muh' or 'ma' - a universal sound for Mother. In every race, culture and domain Mothers are seen as both a symbol and living emblem of love and nurture, of comfort and safety. As we grow older that relationship changes but on a fundamental level remains giving, unconditional and unequivocal. As we become parents ourselves that circle of experience completes a full turn. For poets through time this unique and fulfilling relationship has enabled some of the greatest verse to be written by some of our most famed poets from Wordsworth to Whitman to Tennyson and many, many others. We hope this experience of listening to these carefully chosen words will help you reflect and further enjoy the experience that a Mother's love has brought to your life. Their devotion to ours ensures ours to theirs. Whilst we celebrate Mother's Day once a year, every day is their day.
Amidst all our dreams and ambitions from cradle to grave is the wanderlust of travel. To see the world, to experience different cultures and new lands. In the modern day a few hours on a plane will take us to an entirely different environment whereas a hundred years ago or more any form of transport would have been far slower paced but getting there was also part of the adventure, the gradual transition from what is known to what is about to be known. This collection of poems takes us across a wide variety of travels and environments both real and in the mind. They summon up descriptions and feelings that are sometimes totally unexpected. Of course when the authors include Wordsworth, Stevenson, Keats and others perhaps we shouldn't be surprised but allow ourselves to be indulged by their ability. These poems are read for you by Gideon Wagner and Ghizela Rowe
Amidst all our dreams and ambitions from cradle to grave is the wanderlust of travel. To see the world, to experience different cultures and new lands. In the modern day a few hours on a plane will take us to an entirely different environment whereas a hundred years ago or more any form of transport would have been far slower paced but getting there was also part of the adventure, the gradual transition from what is known to what is about to be known. This collection of poems takes us across a wide variety of travels and environments both real and in the mind. They summon up descriptions and feelings that are sometimes totally unexpected. Of course when the authors include Wordsworth, Stevenson, Keats and others perhaps we shouldn't be surprised but allow ourselves to be indulged by their ability. These poems are read for you by Gideon Wagner and Ghizela Rowe
Autumn - An Introduction. For many of us Autumn, or as the Americans would say; Fall is the season of mixed emotions. Summer's long days are replaced by a chill in the air. The colours on the trees and fields ripen to warmer hues and the harvest is brought safely home. Yet with this bounty there is the knowledge that Nature is turning her attention to the harder, colder Winter month's ahead. Our collection of poems amplifies this balance between the loss of summer and the gain of the harvest with wonderful poems by such notables as Shelley, Yeats, Keats, Sheehan, Emily Dickinson and Longfellow. This collection is read for you by Ghizela Rowe and Gideon Wagner. We hope you've enjoyed this collection which is one of four in the Seasons collection. All of our other poetry, stories and other audiobooks are available at Audible, Amazon, iTunes and other digital stores. For further information please contact us at www.copyrightgroup.info
Christmas Poetry. An Introduction. Christmas, they say, comes but once a year. In these days it seems to also last for much of that year but this volume is not just for Christmas! For the religious amongst us this annual celebration of the Birth of Christ must seem bitter sweet; it's acknowledgment by billions of people countered by the pervasive spread of material possessions translating the event to little more than a sales pitch for their own wares. Most religions celebrate their founders but Christianity seems somehow to have lost possession of one of its key rituals in an ever more secular West. The spread of globalisation seems to have hindered rather than helped the true meaning of the festival. Children today are much more interested in what presents they might receive than any spiritual message. As parents too, most of us buy into this and indulge our offspring rather than instil the underlying themes and aims of the festival's meaning common to us all. In this collection we rely on the words and wisdom of such fine poets as John Milton, Emily Dickinson, Sir Walter Scott, Daniel Sheehan, Wordsworth, Longfellow and a whole host of others to absorb us in a Christmas time of hope and togetherness. The experiences and memories they share with us speak of a time, of a world that did have a common purpose and an ambition to share good fortune with everyone. This selection is read for you by Ghizela Rowe and Tim Graham.
In many ways the title says it all. Kissing is poetry. The kiss is perhaps the most loving and intimate moment there is. It is amongst our most soothing and treasured memories. And perhaps also our most erotic. This volume is not about the kiss of a mother to her child's scraped knee, or the father to his baby's head as he settles down to sleep. No, when the poets here talk of the kiss, they describe the longing and desire, the want and hunger to be part of something that so connects them to another that it can transcend all manner of reason and decorum. That first kiss can be something so anticipated that it is almost electric. A thousand volt charge of tension and pleasure. It is also addictive. Who has not wanted to kiss on? Who has not kissed some part of a lover that shrugs off convention in the taming of desire? Who has not kissed, or been kissed by surprise, in wonderment or even on a street corner in the squalling rain. The kiss takes us where our dreams want to go. This collection of poems is read for you from the lips of Ghizela Rowe and Tim Graham.
Sports Poetry. It is human nature to create and compete. Both of these are brought together in Sport. Many games began in distant eons and gradually adapted and became codified to those we know today. In this volume we celebrate, through the verse of so many well known poets, sports of all kinds. Sports for the rich sports for the poor and all manner in between. As Henry Newbolt would say 'Play Up Play Up and Play The Game. Our collection is read by many including Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe.
The Poetry Of Daniel Sheehan. Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at a poet who is a frequent contributor to anthologies and collections and is here published in his own collection for the first time; Daniel Sheehan. If is famously said that no man is an island. But perhaps many are mysteries. Some seek limelight, others the shadows. In the case of Daniel Sheehan either little is known of him or he wants little to be known. Probably the latter. His work hints at a great love and a journey that is unknown but almost unimportant as to its destination. It is a journey with someone and for someone. His words of the heart, his thoughts of the soul. In short a modern romantic, someone to make the world little less harsh but a little more important. In this internet age surprisingly little is known of him so there is little to tell except in his verse from the past 3 years or so. We have recorded many of his poems and they are available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry. Many samples are at our youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores. The poems are read for you by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley. Index Of Poems; But Stay A While; I Carry The Cross Of A Minor Faith; The Whispered Meaning; Like Flames In A Catholic Night; At The Mercy Goes The Light; No Juice In The Tank Now; And The Man Who Sold His Armies; Razored By Emotions; This Journey May Not End; I Must Be A Vampire; Flakes Of Comfort; That Endless Loop; I Am Your Father; That Kiss; In My Thoughts I Kiss You; And I Run To You; Words Will Rupture; Once Your Kiss Would Make Me Dizzy; Deeper I Cannot Fall; In The Safety Of Your Mouth; An Atheist's Journey; And Your Feet Are The Author, Your Eyes Every Page; This Black Ribbon Freeway; In The Belly Of This Metal Beast; The Ancient Arteries Of America; By My Two Feet And Endless Times; In This Journey; I Am Lonely For The Shadows; Raise Me; The Stillness Of Angels; At Sundown; In This Summer; Winter Calls; Twilight Shadows; I Am An Irish Son; To Bathe My Face; This Scottish Ground; And I Run To You; In My Thoughts I Kiss You; Words Will Rupture; Beauty's Last Angel; If My Fingers Could Torture The Keys On This Board; That Kiss; It Is Autumn; It Is Winter; A Winter's Sad Retreat; Amongst The Redwoods, Giant And Still; I Am Your Mother And You My Child; A Mother's Love - Where She Goes She Is Not Gone; Faulted Dreams; Winter's Naked Woods; No Mercy Here; December Sales Drive; God Arrest Ye Merry Gentlemen; Some Days The Truth Is Bitter; Across The Lines; In Your Heart I Know That I Have Left; Promises That Fail Their Makers Lips; An Atheist's Christmas; That Red Leather Ball; My Peace With Eternity; This Untold Heart Shall Yet Have Name; Bone Deep Damp; My Muscled Soul; Broken By Love; My Peace With Eternity; The Stillness Of Angels; I Am What He Writes About; This Edge Of Love; I Have Colors In My Head; I Have Mercy Now For No One; Your Words Were Not Victims; In The Fear; Here In The Nightmare; In This Fog; To Mock You Hollow; With Your Words Denied; My Dreams Once Had Mercy; The Solitude Of Tears; Was Once My Heartbeat; In This Night; Across The Years; On Anniversary Days; In Every Step; In The Violent Coloured Skies; Yesterday's Truth; Heaven Holds You Now; In The Graveyard Stands The Stone; As The Years And Decades Slowly Pass; If Time Should Splinter; I Saw You Turn; My Name Is Stolen From Beauty's Own Blood; Cranking 'Long The Road; The Night Has Passed; At Night My Eyes Look Up; As My Footsteps Weary To The Grave; If My Roots Are Torn; I Hear The Giddy Hoops; The Monotone Of Innocence; Why Has An Angel Died; I Can't Decide By Words; The Stars Are Your Fame.
