Beautifully illustrated with Christina Laurie's pen and ink drawings, Song of the Dancer includes a few haiku and newly created poems in this second volume of poetry.
Short poems plump with vibrant images of sea, sun and "spider strands" that "catch the dawn // in the garden."
The poems come from deep within, as Christina Laurie sees the ordinary in extraordinary ways.
Her simple phrases and visual metaphors leave a lasting memory, taking you to a place where language meets the soul.
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Short poems plump with vibrant images of sea, sun and "spider strands" that "catch the dawn // in the garden."
The poems come from deep within, as Christina Laurie sees the ordinary in extraordinary ways.
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song of the Dancer
Christina Laurie's short poems are plump with vibrant images of sea, sun, "spider strands" that "catch the dawn//In the garden." Her accompanying line drawings capture the essence of nature.
Song of the Dancer
Christina Laurie writes about what she knows, about what comes from deep within, from the "cave" of her belly. She sees the ordinary in extraordinary ways.
Song of the Dancer
Christina Laurie's simple phrases and visual metaphors leave a lasting memory. Her writing takes you to a place where language meets the soul.
Questions, unquestioned discoveries, and answers in parable and rhyme…. This collection records a journey starting with a 1960s retrospective and the first man on the moon, moving to a new millennium welcomed in with a terrorist spin, family crises,
The songs and art in this book are about our collective emergence after the pandemic and trauma of the last few years - comprised of 5 collections: World as Refuge, Where We Live, In Our Hands, Rhythms of Change and What We See & Sow.
