An insightful and thought provoking study of love and relationships
Beyond The Call of Beauty, is a collection of poetry ranging from traditional metered rhyme, to the more contemporary free form.This collection has been put together over the last year, and contains some light hearted verse to the more darker aspects of the soul.
Excerpt
Leonard Said
Leonard said,
I am content.
Is this the end?
of my life in art.
Must happiness
hinder articulation?
Light heart
overcome
dark dreaming.
I sleep
at your breast,
like a child
walled up
from pain.
But alas Janis
you must leave,
again
and
again
and
again.
Professional Reviews
Beyond The Call of Beauty
James Murphy writes in a fresh, edgy voice, engaging the reader with this superb collection of poems in his first book, Beyond The Call of Beauty.
This thoughtful collection of verse encompasses a broad spectrum of topics
that explore a range from witty and sharp to introspective and romantic.
He writes poems in both free and metered form, always surprising, with his own meditative flair. Each poem brings a unique and charming perspective to the world in which we live in a graceful and intelligent way.
I enjoyed it immensly.
Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas-
Author of I'm Packing Things for Heaven
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
