POETRY
If life seems smug, loud and glib, discover that there is still a place for poetry, with two collections of poems, Flames in the Open and Love and Armour. Glenn shows that poetry is a way of accessing what is deeper, and that hearts may then be light.
In poetry, words throw small harnesses around the wildness that is experience.
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Flames in the Open Paperback, 48 pages, A5 format. Published by G.P. Martin. Released November 2007. ISBN 978 0 9804045 1 7 $AU16.50 + postage Purchase using Paypal: |
Book description
This book is a collection of poems accompanied by autobiographical stories about the contexts in which the poems were written. They span around 20 years. Emotionally they span the experiences of suburban claustrophobia growing up in Sydney, moving to the country, back-to-the-earth zeal, and relationships.
From the back page: Stories, statements, songs about moments and years passing. Changes, change. Sometimes the truth is in the fire, and you sit before it with bare hands. Are you going to retrieve it? You must. You do. And therefore the years shine. And maybe you are burned a little. But you have no apologies to make. So be it.
Poems spanning twenty-plus years, from Sydney to the bush, and an unlikely measure of peace and strength spun out of the harsh, the oppressive, the small and the exalted. The fire is in the open, but the breeze is kind.
Love and Armour Paperback, 111 pages, A5 format. Published by G.P. Martin. Released November 2007. ISBN 978 0 9804045 2 4 $AU22.00 + postage Purchase using Paypal: |
Book description
This is my second collection of poems accompanied by autobiographical stories about the contexts in which the poems were written.
From the back page: There are many episodes that make up a life - traumas, victories and kindnesses. And the words about those episodes provide an accompaniment, they throw light and small harnesses around the wildness. Love and armour is the interplay between experiences and the words that tried to accord those experiences respect. It contains poems and the stories that tell what was happening when the poems were written.
Spanning 20 years of life in the city and in the country. Relationships that worked, if but for a time, and relationships that were never going to work. Spanning the movement from suburban frustration to revolutionary zeal, and back again to a point of deemed balance. There are worldly battles and failures at close quarters. Harshness and its counter-point, the spaces where harshness would not intrude. Hope and fantasy, and striving for solid ground. No matter the cruel sky, watch the slow burn of irrepressible light.