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Stone Talks
Stone Talks brings together poems and four talks/essays by noted poet Alyson Hallett on the subject of stones, rocks, somatics and our relationship with our environment.
The Stone Library
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Project Boast
"Most men prefer a self-deprecating woman." Generations of disapproval install beliefs, mindsets and habits so rigid that they are hard to break. Project Boast brings together 29 contemporary women poets who are speaking out, registering the straitjacket they have had to wear and celebrating the emerging possibility of change.
Walking Stumbling Limping Falling
An email conversation between a noted poet.walker and a noted performance.walker about being temporarily prevented from walking 'normally' by illness/surgery. Their reflections cover cultural perceptions and personal values associated with walking, personal anecdotes, philosophical reflection, practices for daily-life and an alphabet of falling.
Geopoetics
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Geographical Intimacy
This book examines ways in which we can gain a deeper understanding of, and connection with, nature. It explores the relationships between people and place by looking at poetry and the ways in which it enables us to truly experience where we are.
The Heart's Elliptical Orbit
A collection of ten short stories exploring the perils and pleasures of love. Tackling such diverse themes as a transplanted heart, a loving killing, and leaving an island home, these stories take the reader through some of the darker shades of desire and longing. Alyson Hallett is the author of an acclaimed BBC radio play, and of collections of poetry. She is the Visiting Writer at the University of the West of England. "These are powerful stories, written with spare eloquence, packed with tension, menace and longing. Alyson Hallett is a new talent to watch" - Helen Dunmore.
On Ridgegrove Hill
Alyson Hallett was the second Charles Causley poet-in-residence, and the first to live in Causleys house Cypress Well on Ridgegrove Hill in Launceston. On Ridgegrove Hill is a collection of poems created during her residency. Cyprus Well, Causleys house, is a stepping-down-into house. One step then another from front door to little hall then into the lounge. You will come to see what this means. You will come down into the house and because of this you will come down into yourself. Into the well of yourself. You will keep going until you come to water. You will become a bucket and rope, a round stone wall and a winching system. When you are full of water you will haul the bucket of yourself ...
The Step Is the Foot
This inquiry into the relationship between the “step” in dance and the “foot” in verse invites the reader into a tapestry woven by its crossed paths. A duel career as a dancer and as a poet allows the author to follow his interest in the dance origins of scansion and link it to how the foot connects lyric writing to an “exiled sense” through the felt tread of its rhythm. This is to rediscover the physical feeling of poetry; the fulcrum of a relationship that goes back to the Greek chorus, when every phrase was danced. The author shows how verse and the dance emerged together, as we initially developed bipedalism and speech. Written is a discursive style which allows the author to...
Imagining the Pagan Past
Imagining the Pagan Past explores stories of Britain’s pagan history. These tales have been characterised by gods and fairies, folklore and magic. They have had an uncomfortable relationship with the scholarly world; often being seen as historically dubious, self-indulgent romance and, worse, encouraging tribal and nationalistic feelings or challenging church and state. This book shows how important these stories are to the history of British culture, taking the reader on a lively tour from prehistory to the present. From the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, Marion Gibson explores the ways in which British pagan gods and goddesses have been represented in poetry, novels, plays, chronicles, scientific and scholarly writing. From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney and H.G. Wells to Naomi Mitchison it explores Romano-British, Celtic and Anglo-Saxon deities and fictions. The result is a comprehensive picture of the ways in which writers have peopled the British pagan pantheons throughout history. Imagining the Pagan Past will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of paganism.
