Homecoming
Poems of Time and Place
Published on 2. January 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
116 pages
978-1-78963-491-4 (ISBN)
Description
These poems, collected over thirty years, span times and places from the distant past to the present, and from natural and elemental settings too those we inhabit. They are poems of light and shade in equal measure, symptomatic, questioning, celebrating nature and human creativity as well as rising to challenge and protest, especially when it comes to the repeating tragedies of war.
As a collection, it invites the reader to consider each poem from that perspective: the sense in which each represents a 'homecoming' whether to their human origins and past history, to Nature or to the challenges of the present and the reactions that such challenges evoke. What sort of 'home ' is being created- freely or otherwise- for human beings and for all life on Earth?
As a collection, it invites the reader to consider each poem from that perspective: the sense in which each represents a 'homecoming' whether to their human origins and past history, to Nature or to the challenges of the present and the reactions that such challenges evoke. What sort of 'home ' is being created- freely or otherwise- for human beings and for all life on Earth?
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Language
English
Place of publication
Gloucester
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
140 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78963-491-4 (9781789634914)
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Person
David taught on VSO in Sri Lanka between studies at Cambridge and Oxford. He then taught in a variety of settings and also worked for four years with homeless people in London before finding his way to 20 years' work as a Class Teacher in Steiner education. Wynstones Press published his first poetry collection for children in 2009, followed by another in 2014. More poetry (for adults) followed: 'A Treasury of Trees' (2017), 'A Treasury of Plants' (2020) and in 2022 a poetic sequence celebrating 'The Twelve Senses'. Other recent publications include 'Common Wealth', a panoramic sequence of poems spanning prehistoric times to the present (Matador, 2020). Most recently, (2022) Austin Macauley brought together in one book three privately printed collections recording living through the seasons in rural Dorset and Herefordshire. ('A Season's Treasury')
David grew up in Painswick and his latest title 'A Painswick Panorama" (Ex-Libris Press 2022) is a sustained poetic celebration sub-titled 'Glimpses into the History of a Cotswold Village' Other collections in preparation include a life of Kaspar Hauser and the final sequence in his 'treasury' series: 'A Treasury of Earth: from Rocks to Crystals'. David has two grown-up sons and lives with his wife in the hilltop village of Orcop overlooking the Black Mountains.
David grew up in Painswick and his latest title 'A Painswick Panorama" (Ex-Libris Press 2022) is a sustained poetic celebration sub-titled 'Glimpses into the History of a Cotswold Village' Other collections in preparation include a life of Kaspar Hauser and the final sequence in his 'treasury' series: 'A Treasury of Earth: from Rocks to Crystals'. David has two grown-up sons and lives with his wife in the hilltop village of Orcop overlooking the Black Mountains.
Content
Origins; Elements; Making; Messages and Warnings; War; Pilgrimage; Times and Places; Notes and Acknowledgements