Jay Ramsay
Jay Ramsay was an influential presence on the poetry scene for over thirty years and came into his own as a voice for transformative spiritual, political, and psychological awareness. Described as ‘England’s foremost transformation poet’ (Caduceus), he believed that poetry has a unique catalytic role. He is the author, co-author/translator, or editor of well over forty books of poetry and non-fiction. The Poet in You (2009) publishes part of his Chrysalis poetry correspondence course, which he began running in 1990. He was a UKCP-accredited psychotherapist with individuals and couples and also ran personal development groups and workshops in Britain and abroad. Jay Ramsay died on 30 December 2018, two months after the publication of his last and most ambitious book, The Dangerous Book.
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Awen publications:
Pilgrimage: a journey to Love Island
Places of Truth: journeys into sacred wilderness
Soul of the Earth: the Awen anthology of eco-spiritual poetry (editor and contributor)
Tidal Shift: selected poems by Mary Palmer (editor)
Website: http://www.jayramsay.co.uk/
Other publications:
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Psychic Poetry: a manifesto
Raw Spiritual: selected poems 1980–1985
Trwyn Meditations
The White Poem (with Carole Bruce)
The Great Return books 1–6: The Opening / Knife in the Light: a stage-poem / The Hole / In the Valley of Shadow: a cine-poem-cum-fantasy / Divinations / Heart of Earth
transmissions
Strange Days
Journey to Eden (with Jenny Davis)
For Now (with Geoffrey Godbert)
Improvisations
Stories Beyond Words
Meditations on the Unknown God
Tao Te Ching (with Martin Palmer)
I Ching: the shamanic oracle of change (with Martin Palmer)
Kuan Yin: the 100 quatrains (with Martin Palmer)
Tantrika: love songs of the Sixth Dalai Lama
Out of This World
Midnight Silver
like lightning inside lightning
Kingdom of the Edge: selected poems 1980–1998
Alchemy of the Invisible (with Genie Poretsky-Lee)
After Rumi
The Message (with Karen Eberhardt Shelton)
Chinese Leaves / Dream Whispers (with Genie Poretsky-Lee)
The Heart’s Ragged Evangelist: love poems for the greater love
Local Universe: poems written in the Stroud Valleys
Out of Time: selected poems 1998–2007
Anamnesis: the remembering of soul
Gita: a dialogue of love and freedom
The Book of Chuang Tzu (with Martin Palmer)
Agistri Notebook
Monuments
Surgery
Dreams Down Under: celebrating Australia
Hafod-y-Llyn Notebook
Shi Jing: book of history (with Martin Palmer)
The Three Kingdoms (with Martin Palmer)
Alchemy: the art of transformation
Crucible of Love: the alchemy of passionate relationships
The Poet in You
Angels of Fire: anthology of radical poetry in the 1980s (editor)
Transformation: the poetry of spiritual consciousness (editor)
Earth Ascending: an anthology of living poetry (editor)
Into the Further Reaches (editor)
Diamond Cutters: contemporary visionary poets in America and Britain (editor with Andrew Harvey)
Paxos
The Dangerous Book
