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Food For Thought
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Savouring the
Delights of Poetry &
Prose
by Beth Richards
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UK
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£6.99 US
price:
$10.50
Publisher:
DIADEM BOOKS
Format: Paperback
Size : 5" x 8"
Pages: 158
ISBN: 978-1907294440
Published:
March-2010
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FOOD FOR
THOUGHT
is a well known phrase,
often used - and this time
Beth Richards hopes her
latest title will give some
readers just that - Food for
Thought! In our present
generation of the 21st
Century folk are living
their lives as though on a
treadmill. They may be going
faster and faster - but,
like a treadmill, they are
going nowhere fast. Time and
money seem to be of the
essence in everything.
Primary Care Trusts are only
interested in their target
figures!
Beth Richards has written
many of the poems in Food
for Thought relating to
everyday life - life in this
hectic 21st Century. She
hopes that in this book many
readers may be helped to
live life to the full - to
live in the present and not
wish the precious gift of
life away. The last poem
`Final Curtain Call' comes
to us all one day. We should
make sure it's later rather
than sooner!
The short stories also
included in this volume will
delight and entertain the
reader, as they touch on
human nature and, again,
some of the dilemmas of
modern life, with insight
and humour.
About the author
Beth Richards began writing
poetry about forty years
ago, but only seriously
after retirement. What some
people describe as
inspiration is to her
something like a telephone
call into the mind. Living
in a beautiful corner of
Derbyshire, it is not
surprising that her poems
and stories reflect the
warm-hearted Derbyshire folk
as well as the inspiring
beauty of the nearby Peak
District. Food for Thought
is her eighth book.
Available from the
following on-line
bookstores:
Also by Beth
Richards:
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Pause for Thought:
With Versastyle
Poetry
by Beth Richards
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UK
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Publisher:
DIADEM BOOKS
Format: Paperback
Size : 5" x 8"
Pages: 164
ISBN-13:
978-1908026361
ISBN-10: 1908026367
Published:
November-2011
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The most significant
contribution of this
versatile and inspired
author in this volume is her
use of a new form of poetry
that she has aptly dubbed 'Versastyle
Poetry' - for which she
deserves to find a permanent
place in the history of
literary criticism or
literary style. This is the
intermingling of, or
alternating use of, free
verse and rhyming stanzas...
where the repeated rhyming
stanza picks up the thematic
strands in the free verse
component as an echo,
refrain or leitmotif,
serving, in effect, as a
thematic chorus. This works
very effectively, for
example, in her poems
'Delicate Rosebuds', and
'Magic Mirror', where each
repetition of the rhyming
stanza uncovers deeper
levels of insight.
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Epic Times, Past
and Present:
Reflections in Prose
and Poetry
by Beth Richards
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UK
price:
£9.99 US
price:
$11.89
Publisher:
DIADEM BOOKS
Format: Paperback
Size : 5" x 8"
Pages: 246
ISBN: ISBN-13:
978-1908026095
Published:
March-2011
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My main aim in Epic Times,
Past and Present is to
magnify the difference
between life in the 20th
Century and today's faster
pace of living. To do this I
began with 'Comradeship at
its Best', a true story of
my childhood memories of
war-torn Britain back in the
4th decade of the last
century. The theme of the
very last poem, 'The Day I
Trembled with Fear' occurred
recently in January 2011,
reflecting upon a
mini-earthquake in Ripon,
also Leeds...just a few
miles from where I live in
Derbyshire. I remarked in
this poem, 'we don't do
Earthquakes in Britain', but
it appears now....anything
goes! The book literally
goes from past to present
times. Are we any better off
with today's way of living?
I don't think so! Do you?
Read this book before you
answer! - Beth Richards.
For this slim
volume of poetry, Beth
Richards has drawn
inspiration from her own
experiences to produce a
thoughtful collection of
verse. Although the topics
vary, the overriding
message is be positive and
don’t overlook, or take for
granted, the many wondrous
gifts in your life as you
struggle over the obstacles
that fate places in your
path.
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Chill
Out With Beth
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Gems for Young and
Old!
by Beth
Richards
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UK
price:
£5.63
US price:
$9.95
Format: Paperback
Size : 6 x 9
Pages: 50
ISBN: 0-595-37203-1
Published: Sep-2005
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Chill Out With Beth
combines an enchanting fairy
story for children with
poems that are gems of
wisdom and insight relevant
to both young and old in the
journey of life. Writing of
friendship, dreams, love and
destiny, her overall message
in is to be positive and to
appreciate the wondrous
gifts in our lives.
In this intriguing
collection of sincere and
heartfelt poems, Beth
Richards, the “Wise Owl”,
brings us more gems of
wisdom that become beacons
for guidance through the
everyday problems and joys
of life. Writing of
friendship, dreams, love and
destiny, her overall message
in is to be positive and to
appreciate the wondrous
gifts in our lives.
This story is based on what
a lot of us feel when our
children flee the nest! Life
is a journey. At the
beginning Carol has a dream,
which is something many of
us have and fulfil,
depending upon
circumstances. The big
question is—will we achieve,
in the end, what starts out
as a dream?
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Worlds Apart
Poems of Contrast
by Beth Richards &
Charles Muller |
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Our price:
£7.00
US price:
$13.95
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 134
ISBN: 0-595-50302-0
Published: Apr-2008
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Two poets - two worlds:
poems of deep and humorous
reflections (set in England)
contrasted with poems of
stark reality (set in South
Africa and elsewhere).
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LIGHT
READING
Reflections in
Poetry and Prose
by Beth Richards |
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UK price:
£8.96 US
price:
$16.95
Publisher: DIADEM
BOOKS
Format: Paperback:
Perfect binding ,
cream interior
Size : 6 x 9 (US
trade)
Pages: 140
ISBN:
978-0-9559852-9-4
Published:
December-2008
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Beth Richards
writes: ‘I’ve always
maintained that writing
poetry (and other forms of
creative writing) is a gift
from God.’ Here, again, the
creative muse continues to
inspire Beth—hence this
latest book of short stories
and poetry entitled Light
Reading. (Discerning
readers will, of course,
appreciate the pun on the
word Light, hopefully
made clearer by Beth’s oil
painting of the Baccaro
Lighthouse, in Nova Scotia,
on the front cover!)
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Darkness to Light
Further Enlightening
Poetry & Prose
by Beth Richards
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UK
price:
£6.99
US price:
$10.40
Publisher:
DIADEM BOOKS
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Diadem
Books
Size : 20.3 x 12.7 x
0.8 cm
Pages: 138
ISBN: 978-1907294075
Published: Sep-2009
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A new collection of Beth
Richards' inspiring poems
and prose pieces.
NOTE FROM THE
AUTHOR:
My aim in this book of poems
and prose is to reach out to
a number of readers –
therefore I’ve written about
many different subjects,
which will almost certainly
touch the hearts of many.
Maybe some of the subjects
will even help someone with
a similar problem in his or
her life to find a solution
– a form of self-help!
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