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    A Fraction From Parallel
    A Fraction From Parallel
    A Fraction From Parallel
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    A Fraction From Parallel

    By Alison Chisholm

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    This collection brings together poems of joy, observation, nostalgia, pain, humour, fantasy, ducks and rather a lot of chocolate. Enjoy!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlison Chisholm
    Release dateOct 30, 2016
    ISBN9781370322527
    A Fraction From Parallel
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    Alison Chisholm

    Alison Chisholm has been writing poetry for over 40 years, and has had twelve collections published and eleven textbooks on the craft of writing (three of which were produced in collaboration with other writers) including five on writing poetry. She writes poetry columns for 'Writing Magazine', and produced the poetry correspondence course for The Writers Bureau, Manchester, and tutored on it for twenty years. She lives in Southport, UK.She taught creative writing and the craft of writing poetry in adult education for 25 years, and devised a number of courses for the Merseyside and North West Open College boards. She currently teaches an advanced poetry course, and gives regular workshop weekend courses for Relax and Write Workshops. She has led poetry courses at The Writers' Holiday, (Caerleon and Fishguard), The Writers' Summer School, Swanwick, and NAWG Festival of Writing, and has given talks, readings, courses and workshops throughout Britain and in Geneva, Rotterdam and Malaga.

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      A Fraction From Parallel - Alison Chisholm

      A FRACTION

      FROM PARALLEL

      by

      Alison Chisholm

      Smashwords edition

      Comments about A FRACTION FROM PARALLEL:

      As the opening poem asserts, 'There is a need...for words...a need...for poetry', and folks won't be disappointed by Alison Chisholm's new collection. Poem after poem admirably satisfies this need with rich imagery, stunning diction, perceptive insights and varied poetic forms to provide a treasure-trove. What is impressive is the way in which the skilled application of poetic techniques is used to serve the wide-ranging subject matter: from birth, through childhood including Guiding, parenting, to ageing and death; from celebrations of the making of origami flowers and paper dollies to sharing family meals; and savouring the interface between the human and natural worlds, be it moon bathing, tracking Neolithic footprints, watching sandwich terns, badgers, urban foxes, gathering seashells. This is counterpointed by poems about the classical world from Ozymandias, Icarus and Penelope as well as to the young Shakespeare in 'Avon Dreaming' and a group of poems about his dramatic characters including Portia, Ariel, and Falstaff on the point of taking health advice from his doctor.

      Roger Elkin

      Whether it’s the magpie that enters her head and ‘feeds on the carrion of failed ideas’ or the ‘forty roses, red as Christmas’ that ‘jostle in glass,’ whether formally or freely spoken, the language of Alison Chisholm’s poetry is always both strong and tender. It moves from the innocence of schooldays to a more serious age when ‘the tumult breaks into a hundred separate sounds’ and ‘shadows lour and sullen moments lurk,’ with wonderfully sparkling moments of gentle humour in between. Skilfully crafted poems from a poet whose love of poetry is evident in every word she writes.

      Brian Wake

      A FRACTION

      FROM PARALLEL

      by

      Alison Chisholm

      First published in 2016

      by Caleta Publishing

      Copyright © Alison Chisholm 2016

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      Some of these poems have appeared in Acumen, Writing Magazine, A Robin Called, A Practical Guide to Poetry Forms, and Orbis, have won awards in the National Federation of State Poetry Societies and Ohio Poetry Day competitions, or have been broadcast by BBC Radio Merseyside.

      OTHER COLLECTIONS

      BY ALISON CHISHOLM

      Alone No More (with Robin Gregory)

      Flying Free

      The Need for Unicorns

      Single Return

      Light Angles

      Daring the Slipstream

      Mapping the Maze

      Hold Tight

      Iced

      Star and Snowflake

      Also by Alison, Crafting Poetry,

      where she has put her poetry-writing knowledge into a text book.

      For my Darling Girls –

      Emma, Julia and Holly

      REQUIRED READING

      There is a need,

      in this world where earth heaves and quakes,

      floods inundate - despoiling homes -

      and volcano clouds billow,

      for words to fathom, to console.

      There is a need,

      when new lambs slither onto frost-spiked grass,

      trees wake to a foam of blossom

      and nesting mallards feel the crack of shell beneath them,

      for words to share elation.

      There is a need,

      when politicians posture, terrorists rant,

      young men lash out in wordless rage

      and the voice of ignorance shouts loudest,

      for words that whisper their still, small calm.

      There is a need,

      when your skin tingles at someone's touch,

      a kiss alters the rhythm of your heart

      and being alone makes you incomplete,

      for words vast enough to contain your love.

      There is a need,

      when you want to make sense of the madness,

      when you have to know who you are,

      when you want to touch the moon,

      for poetry.

      SHELL

      fits in my hand like a child's heart

      dried of

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