About the Book
An Artful Perspective
The Linnet's Wings, To Catch a Frog "John Milton never attended a political convention, but Paradise Lost depicts satanic demagogy and citizens dwindled to mere onlookers, overwhelmed by giant voices. In the great hall of Pandemonium," Stephen Zelnick, "Dwindling: the Shrinking Citizen," Section 11
The Spanish word 'revista, ' translates to the word 'magazine.' When I see it on the stands in Spain I feel it calling me in to revisit voice, or to re-imagine story from another angle, maybe a bit of fancy but I always notice the word before I read the title, for I only have a working understanding of Spanish, and the fact that I am not fluent works in my favour as it slows my reading to open out the vista. And we revisit some brave work, not least the Čiurlionis' Funeral Symphony series, which sets out our frontis alongside a few old and favoured classics from R.L. Stevenson and Francis Ledwidge. Classic work used to springboard the eye into the body where it finds a sympathetic voice in the work of Jose Marti, John Milton, Lewis Carroll and others as they are explored within our writer's contemporary world vision.
All work is built within the mind first, isn't it, so it's done and dusted before its ever put down on paper, Once there, it gets a rewrite and numerous edits before it's allowed fall down into the regular threads. And our contributors write poetry, prose, essay and they translate classic voices, those who in their own time also wrote about the ways of the world in an artful fashion, to show perspective; to exclaim; explain; or make a point.
Writing, in this time of COVOD, within our sections we have:
1. Mid Tones:
Turn the Page by Mari
The Apostle: Cuba's Immortal José Martí by Stephen Zelnick
Bisection Class by Sam Hartburn
Head of the Family and Whistle like a Clanger by Bill West
2. Every Preposterous Thing:
Painted Pictures by Marie Fitzpatrick
Ritual, The Secret Marriage by Susan Tepper
Dwindling: the Shrinking Citizen by Stephen Zelnick
3. Breakdowns
Poetry Editorial by Oonah V Joslin
The Poor Man at his Gate, Summer and Alien by James Graham
Transformation, River to Oxbow Lake by Ceinwein E C Haydon
Like Chalk Erased From The Sidewalk by Akeith Waters
It Frays by Caroline Hardaker
Let me Count 13 Ways on How I love you by John C Mannone
I Used to Be Immortal by Irena Pasvinter
Scones and Jam by Dolores Duggan
Being Present by Anne Donnellan
Bird Breveament by Alisa Velaj
The March of Time by Lesley Timms
Peasant Woman Watching the Geese by Camille Pissarro
The Geese Fly North by Nick Bowman
Mother Moon by Ann Thornfield-Long
Murmurration by Matthew Paust
Moon Dance, Trees Coming Green, April, Tom Sheehan
A Balmy Day by James G Piatt
The Woodland Mass, (Welsh Translation) by Thomas Norman
