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or collected poems, as well as display individual
poems by poets working on anthologies shortly to be
released. Occasionally I shall also display a poem which I've
particularly liked! Anthologies may be ordered from Diadem
Books, while in the case of individual poems we shall be
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The following
poetry collections have been published.
Worlds Apart 
Poems of Contrast
by Beth Richards & Charles Muller |
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).
Climb Aboard My Bus: 
Pictures in Verse
by Dave Navsa |
UK price:
£5.00 US price:
$9.95
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 58
ISBN: 0-595-47057-2
Published: Sep-2007
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Climb Aboard My Bus is a guided tour through the
poet’s imaginative mind. It is a potpourri of vivid pictures, moods and
emotions. The poems are gems that sparkle with pleasing rhyme and vivid
life!
Skeward Images 
by Nick Armbrister |
UK price:
£7.00 US price:
$12.95
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 116
ISBN: 0-595-45456-9
Published: Jun-2007 |
Read the author's
latest blog entry! Click here.
The second volume of contemporary poetry on various
subjects from poet/writer Nick Armbrister for an uncontemporary world:
startling and imaginative themes and images.
Other Formats:
Hard Cover (£13.00)|
Adobe eBook
Cover shows Jesus Christ as depicted by Saint Sister Faustina –
a Catholic Nun whose vision of Christ was given to her by JESUS
himself.
The book brings together devotional poems
inspired by Thomas à Kempis and a cover picture of Christ as
seen by Sister Faustina in 1931 with the following promise of
Our Lord: “I promise that the soul that will venerate this
picture will not perish. I further promise to that soul victory
over its enemies."
Love Songs to Jehovah
He Hears the Heart Cry
by Jessica MacLennan |
Our price:
£5.00 US price:
$9.95
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 48
ISBN: 0-595-45514-X
Published: Jun-2007 |
Love Songs to Jehovah is a collection of deeply
personal and spiritual poems that show how God’s mercy and love brought
about a revolution in the author’s life, from unrequited earthly love to
the deep fulfilment and joy of divine love through the baptism of the
Holy Spirit.
Contemporary poetry on various subjects from poet/writer
Nick Armbrister for an uncontemporary world!
A collection of life-pictures in words. Warm, funny,
poignant and well-observed.
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.
Inspirational poems in two parts—deep, honest thoughts and feelings, and humorous insights from chocolates to supermarket trolleys that will strike a common chord!
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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.
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.
Lewis Carroll's long nonsense poem, “The Hunting of the Snark”, about 10 bachelors on a journey of discovery, is here depicted as a sexual journey of discovery, darkly overshadowed by the danger of AIDS. The amazing pictures by Allan Williams— recording every strange experience and exotic encounter the poem contains—are full of ingenious surprises, plentifully supported by his annotations of the text. The Bellman is tingling his bell. Dare you come on board for the journey of a lifetime?
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Abalone
by Mary Jamuna
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UK price: $9.99
US price: $13.95
Format: Paperback
Size : 6 x 9
Pages: 128
ISBN: 0-595-36248-6
Published: Jul-2005
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Mary Jamuna's terse and concise poems make a much-needed statement of universal love and acceptance in a world in the grip of materialism and institutionalised beliefs, thinking and prejudices. The poet has been true to her Great Spirit muse.
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Halesome Farin' :
(Wholesome Fare)
by John Waddell
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UK price: £8.85
US price: $15.95
Format: Paperback
Size : 6 x 9
Pages: 166
ISBN: 0-595-33011-8
Published: Sep-2004
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This is the third book of poems by John Waddell, following the publication of his first very successful collection,
The Flying Snail and his second book, A Glimpse of Eden. This time all the poems are written in the beautiful, rich, and descriptive Scots language familiar to all brought up north of the border.
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by Kim Schroeder
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UK price: £10.95
US price: $12.95
Format: Paperback
Size : 6 x 9
Pages: 112
ISBN: 0-595-31870-3
Published: May-2004
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This collection of simple and honest poems will scream
out in self-validation as it tracks the author’s ups, downs and
observations through a wide range of human experience and emotions.
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The Blue Vale:
Poems from Mallaig and Beyond
by Michael Lamb
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UK
price: £13.99
US
price: $15.95
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 162
ISBN: 0-595-28913-4
Published: Jul-2003
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Inspired by the landscape, spirit and way of
life of the West Highlands and Islands of Scotland, these poems
question, delight and entertain. Absorb, enjoy, then read again.
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by Peter John Finch
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UK price: £12.99
US
price: $14.95
Format: Paperback
Size : 6 x 9
Pages: 142
ISBN: 0-595-31165-2
Published: Feb-2004
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These poems by Peter Finch reflect a wide range of human
experience—love, anger, comedy, war and remembrance, some of the most
moving being his response to nature.
Every
Emotion: Hebridean Poetry. Poems by George Carle.
(Writers
Club Press, 2000.)
Sample the magic of the Hebrides and share the emotions and
insights of the doctor-poet George Carle in this, his first poetry
collection.
US
price: $11.95
U K price: £9.99
Unsophisticated
Verses and Lyrics

by Filton
Hebbard
US price: $19.95
UK
price: $16.99
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 366
ISBN: 0-595-25627-9
Publication Date: Nov-2002
Other Formats: Hard
Cover $29.95
The verses and lyrics in this collection, by an Australian author and
poet, are refreshing, being sincere and direct expressions of feeling and
meaning in an age where poems and songs so often fail to communicate by
being pretentious and self-conscious.
Just
before I say “I do”
Inspirational poems
by D E Rollins
US
price: $12.95
UK
price: £10.99
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 154
ISBN: 0-595-26264-3
Publication Date: Dec-2002
The colloquial immediacy of these poems in free verse
convey the stark anguish of the poet’s soul and earthy yearnings as she
encounters pre-marital tensions, made all the more poignant by her
overriding love of God, her constant companion and provider.
Click on the butterfly to read a
sample poem from each of the following collections:
Whistling
in the Dark. Poems by Pat Miller. (Out of
Bounds Publishing, 1989, 44 pages.)
The
half-Closed Eye. Poems by Maria Katrakis.
(Justified Press, 52 pages.)
Insights
and Outsights. Poems by Roy Holland. (David
Philip, 39 pages.)
Johannesburg: Justified Press, 1994.
52 pp. £9.50
(STOP PRESS:
this anthology is currently out of print. A new anthology is being
compiled. Notification will be given here as soon as new stocks
are received!)
Although concerned with time
and memory, many of the poems in this anthology focus on people.
Maria Katrakis sketches their joys and their sorrows in
splinter-sharp, lyrical poems which universalise the human
situation. She is not a detached observer but a centre of
consciousness, fully a part of the suffering or happiness she
depicts. If unrequited hope is the main theme linking her poems
together, it is because the 'half-closed eye' does not evade the
realities of modern life.
Maria Katrakis has written
numerous educational articles and various study guides. She is the
author of radio plays and has been a finalist in both the Amstel
Playwright of the Year and Young Africa Award literary
competitions. She is the first woman to win the Ernst van Heerden
Creative Writing Award from the University if the Witwatersrand,
for a poetry anthology.
Maria Katrakis is a founder
member of the Hellenic Ladies Association and of the Students
Hellenic Association.
Here is a
sample poem from this excellent anthology:
Spiderwise
| before we met |
| our lives trailed |
| behind us like |
| the silvered
threads |
| of climbing |
| spiders |
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* |
| now our shared |
| years are woven |
| into a tenuous |
| web of happiness |
| where |
| spiderwise |
| we wait to trap |
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our fate
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Maria Katrakis
Cape Town: David Philip. 39 pp.
Other
works by Roy
Holland
ISBN 0864861214
£5.95
This is a selection of the
work of a mature poet, spanning poems written in his youth in
England and later in Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Greece and South Africa.
Many have appeared in journals in England, the USA and South
Africa.
"The poems cover a wide
range of topics and continents and are almost without exception
filled with memorable images ... Insights and
Outsights is an impressive collection and one to which readers
will often return, not only to enjoy the product of a writer at
home with his gift but for the incisive dissection of subject
matter." EH, Cape Times.
Here
is a sample from this anthology:

Mantid
Outside, musty as damp wool scarves,
The dark coiled back on itself
Like life mouldering in a plumstone.
But she was alive there,
Transparent on the window-pane,
Insatiate
with her own green light.
At the angles of her head
The bald green eyes looked inward,
Outward, watching the juices
Of divination run through her long flanks,
Her two razors of supplication
Hone themselves on prayer.
How her angled-backward legs,
Thin as fuses, kept her steady on the glass
I do not know. It was clear
Her meagre wings held no notion of flying.
And her triangular head, though tilted, was still.
But her body was swaying.
It must have taken skill
To reach the fused wire of her mate's claw
Twitching out its voltage in her mouth.
She seemed to have no sense of loss,
Regret. No salivation; an appetite merely.
Something to satisfy. I moved my eyes.
The sad attenuations of the willows 
Leaked palely under the electric lamps.
The dark was chilled below their griefs.
Her breath is a green frost; famine her mandibles.
And time is browsing, mantis-jawed, on the delicate
Distal of my foot. I am digestible.
Roy Holland

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