Poesía

KINGS OF THE ROCK AND ROLL HOT SHOP

In this exciting new collection of poems, Lynnell Edwards illuminates the "molten potential, scourging fire" of glassblowing at Flame Run Hot Shop in Louisville, Kentucky. "Through empathy and penetrating observation, Edwards goes deep inside the art of glassmaking. What she brings back in the form of poems is fascinating-she has absorbed and passes on to us the jargon of the guild, as well as the cautions and the glories the "kings of the hot shop" encounter on the way to finished creations. It is a small, self enclosed universe, and Edwards its sympathetic cosmologist. As one might expect, those who work with a substance and tools that can reach temperatures of a thousand degrees are practical folk, possessed of a dark sense of humor. Molten glass is pretty, and can look delicious, "like taffy/ pulled by hook and hand." But injury and failure are only a breath away, and Edwards is quick to add, "mind your tongue/ friend, this is nothing/ you want between your teeth." Kings of the Rock and Roll Hot Shop captures this paradox and more, in poems that entertain even as they bring us close to the heat, beauty, and danger of creation." - Jeffrey Skinner

THE BULMER MURDER

The title poem of this collection chronicles the eighteenth-century trial of Captain John Bolton for the murder of his apprentice girl, Elizabeth Rainbow, in a small village in the north of England where Paul Munden has spent most of his life. The poem’s reflection on the life writing process is complemented by other shadowings, glimpses of strange complicities and dark pastoral musings.

WATERING MY SOUL

Ella Kate Reeves is a dance and movement therapist and an accredited psychotherapist. When illness struck leaving her unable to dance she wrote. Life has seen many challenges come her way . She shares these challenges through her unique poetry collection. Testimonials Anne Geragthy (Author) "Kate's poetry is not only original and beautiful it is challenging and visionary. Her poems take us into her journey and, as we read them, her struggles and surrenders become ours. She takes us with her into unfamiliar terrain, where her words themselves become elements of a living landscape. And Kate's journey is neither mundane nor predictable. She is living with challenges and demands that would floor many of us, yet she manages to transmute pain and loss into mystery and wonder. Kate's poetry performs the great alchemical transformation - from the chaos of human suffering into the creation of beauty, love, truth and a wisdom that knows there is something greater than pain and struggle, greater even than death. And this is the true beauty of her poetry. It shines with a light we all need. Thank you Kate - keep writing!" Miranda Jay (Psychotherapist, Musician) ''Gritty. Real. Raw. Potent. Ella Kate Reeve's poetry merges her lived reality with divinity, catalyzing our own awakening. An alchemist of our times extracting the soulful essence of truth, she casts her irons in the fires and we feel the heat as her words burn away. Her poetry is alive and lucid, a kind of Plutonic medicine that dances into our soul; an intimate waltz with death, loss, transformation and rebirth. Her poems should carry a warning label: Read at your own risk." Lisa Lovebucket (Author) "'Ella Kate Reeves is a new archetype: the kind of human being we need at the forefront if we are to weather the oncoming storm and come out thriving when the sun shines down on us once again. Kate can burn up the pain of the world in her little finger; envelop and annul it with her words; beguile and disperse it with her dance. Like a phoenix rising through an ice storm, she shines her light and warmth all around, melting hearts and inspiring minds as she soars ever upwards. Her every action abounds with the beauty and grace with which she conquers suffering and hardship, overcoming personal trials and adversity, and leading us all back to the light: a majestic homecoming 'indeed." Ross James Brown (Dancer, Poet) "Your words directly connect me to the place I feel whole, complete, breaking through layers and layers of deep truth, taking me on little internal journey, powerful, so inspiring, gifted soul!" Joe Hoare (Psychotherapist) "Ella's poetry is not for the faint-hearted, the pretenders, the sheen & gloss brigade, and 'look-but-don't-feel'. This is raw, real stuff and it rips the soul in agonising ecstasy. Please keep writing." Wanda Ponder (Life coach/Yoga teacher) "Your poetry just leaves me reeling, dumbstruck, not sure what I'm feeling, your heart and soul bared to the world revealing, your inner truth, no concealing, and your words filled with so much magic and healing..."