Soul of the Earth: the Awen anthology of eco-spiritual poetry
edited by Jay Ramsay
CONTENTS LIST
Introduction by Jay Ramsay
ROSELLE ANGWIN
Day Lilies
You Wrapped in Your Red Coat
Summer Solstice 2010, Merrivale
Earth Heart Days
AIDAN ANDREW DUN
Treadwell
DIANA DURHAM
Detour
Blake
What Was the Original Wild?
Big Valley, Pennsylvania
Icing
Black River
KAREN EBERHARDT-SHELTON
Heavenly Moon
Five Billion Simultaneous Heart Beats
The Face of God in the Folded Sheets
Misplaced Calibrators
Sea-ing into the Haze
God’s Underwear
ROSE FLINT
Prayer for Always Peace
Field of Light
Running on Empty
Sedna at Tadusack
Another World Is Possible
DAWN GORMAN
Apple Tree
Tenacity
Spring Warriors
Natural Order
Holy Well
Quarry
ALYSON HALLETT
Moon
Transparencies
O Rain
La, la, la or The Singing that Joins Us to This Rock
What We Do When We Stop Talking
Suddenly Everything
JEREMY HOOKER
To the Unknown Labourer
Nobbut Dick Jefferies
Landscape of the Daylight Moon
Walking all day in the Forest
Cyane
ADAM HOROVITZ
Second Coming
Wile E. Coyote Pauses for Thought
The Memory of Water
Seeding
CHARLOTTE HUSSEY
Cailleach
Ndixito: From the Life of Maria Sabina
from Small Catastrophes: After Reading Marko Pogačnik
IRINA KUZMINSKY
This age of darkness …
from Quills
A Sequence of Embraces
from Australian Stories
KEVAN MANWARING
Breaking Light
PAUL MATTHEWS
To the Lady
A Green Theology
Carrying Language into a Wood
JEHANNE MEHTA
Beltane in England
Nothing Now Common
Yew Pollen
Albion?
Hymn to the Earth
MARGIE MCCALLUM
Pukerua Bay
What did you do when you knew the Earth was unravelling?
Chalice Well Garden, 2 a.m.
Let no bright colours interrupt the month of May
On Reading Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet
Somerleaze Farm Retreat
GABRIEL BRADFORD MILLAR
The Fere
Am I Ready?
Pitchcombe
Some Things
The Earth Speaks in Tunis
Month of the Dead
HELEN MOORE
Green Drift
Modern Magus
In Good Hands
Time-out, Black-out
PAUL NELSON
Another Day Will Come
Sun
JENNIE POWELL
Tulip Tree
Place
Ceremony for the Winter Solstice
Evening Light
JAY RAMSAY
The Boreen
from Anamnesis – the Remembering of Soul
Driving Home, Christmas Day
If the Grass Could Speak in Her Voice
In Bowood Library
LYNNE WYCHERLEY
The Substitute Sky
Corncrakes
Cloudberries
Littoral
Sea Walls
An Ecobardic Afterword by Anthony Nanson
The Contributors
Acknowledgements
Publisher’s Note