(October 2004) Page 2
(October 2004) Page 2
 ROBIN OUZMAN HISLOP
Bachelor in Arts (Hns). Philosophy & Religion. Manchester University. Resident at Pakistan, Lahore. Studies at Punjab University, New Campus, Lahore: Sufism (Tasawuf), Jalal-U-Din Rumi & Ibn Arabi. Sheffield University: Spanish & Latin American Cultural Studies. Resident in Spain from 1985 until December 1998 (Madrid and Salamanca): Resident at Salamanca, 1996-98: English Language teacher and translator for “El Ateneo”. Organisation of bilingual poetry readings at Casa do Brasil, Madrid Complutense University, Escuela Oficial de Idiomas, (Madrid Official School of Languages), Cafés Manuela and Magerit, O’Connors Pub, Madrid, El Ateneo and El Corrillo in Salamanca.
Translations of poetry include 1927 Spanish Generation Poets: selections of F.G. Lorca, Luis Cernuda, Rafael Alberti, M. Altolaguirre, Miguel Hernandez and Vicente Aleixandre’s poems; and the Chilean poet Andres Fisher, Las Diosas Blancas an Anthology edited Ramon Buenaventura, an anthology of poetry Alchemy by Tessa Duncan from Spanish and James Stephens Fairy Stories into Spanish have been more recent activities. I hope to feature these, as well as introducing new translations with originals on my web page soon to be opened IBIS. I am interested in revivalist movements in modern poetry.
Appeared in Dawn Millenium Anthology published by Kedco Studios & this year appeared in their Crystal Dawn Anthology. Frequently featured in the E zines Poetry Life and Times, Autumn Leaves, Sonnetto Poesia, Canadian Zen Haiku, appeared on Artvilla, Poetry Repairs, the Celtic Pagan Poetry Pages Journal, as featured poet in the Beltane edition & Ancient Dawn E zines amongst others. This year will publish own anthology Blue Corn which will incorporate performance, on web cam and voice recital with Kedco Studios. Mystic East publishers are now in process of editing my anthology After the Cave, the Comet for publication later this year, as well as their Mystic East Anthology of poets, where further work is due to appear, and am pleased to announce our forthcoming New Pleiades Anthology 2005, to be published by Kedco Studios, which will feature our own New Pleiades poetry list of international poets, where I am a co editor & list moderator. My present book After the Cave the Comet was published this month by Mystic East.
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Scarlet Lips © Robin Ouzman Hislop |
 RICHARD VALLANCE About Richard Vallance. Born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, March 11th., 1945, Richard Vallance, H.B.A., M.L.S, is fluently bilingual in English and French, and reads Spanish and Italian, ancient Greek and Latin well. He wrote his first major poem at the age of 18, in 1963. For years, Richard wrote mainly in the field of Library and Information Science. At Chicago, in October, 1983, he won the $1,000 Data Courier Award for Excellence in Online Published Papers. Poetry: Richard has composed over 2,500 poems. In 1998, he published his first full book of poetry, A Quilt of Sonnets: Forty Four Familiar Poems, Ottawa: Providence Road Press, © 1998. 56 pp. ISBN 1-896243-07-x. In February, 2001, Richard founded his first poetry discussion group, Describe Adonis, for sonneteers. All of Richard's poetry groups have now been transferred to Smartgroups (UK), under the banner The New Pleiades = la nouvelle Pléiade. Richard's world class poetry page is Poesie’s laissez-faire Faire Foire, which showcases over 40 poets worldwide. PLFFF features sonnets, haiku, contemporary and historical poetry, and grants the monthly Prix laissez-faire Faire Foire Award . PLFFF is a member of Phenomenal Men of The Web: Arts & Humanities. Richard is the Editor of 3 Canadian poetry E-Zines, accessible here, Poetry Journals. Since September, 2001, Richard has been the poetry reviewer for Poetry Life and Times, which features the monthly Vallance Review. He is also regular contributor to the same E-Zine. Richard is also often featured with the U.S. Amerindian E-Zine, Autumn Leaves and in the US print poetry journal, The Neovictorian/Cochlea (Madison, Wisconsin). CD-ROM Books: 1. 10 of Richard's poems were included in Millennium Dawn, Kedco Studios Press, Las Vegas, NV, © 2002 ISBN 1-878431-38-2. CONTACT: Richard Vallance (Coolgoose.ca) |
NOTE: The following poem is from: Chapter 11, Translations, poem 22, in Canadian Spirit Voices, © 2003 by Richard Vallance ISBN 1-878-431-nn-7, where both Gérard de Nerval's original sonnet in French and Richard Vallance's English sonnet translation are featured:
Homme! Libre Penseur Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855)* NOTE: I suppose, if it hasn't become apparent to folks who read my poetry, I am particularly enamoured of the rain, whose natural qualities always seem to evoke from my hands nostalgic, yet calming echoes of my own past, as it influences and awakens the call to my own present. My Carousel Home is:
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Jan Sand in New York
JAN SAND, poet and illustrator from New York (now residing in Helsinki), is a regular contributor to Poetry Life & Times and the newsgroup alt.arts.poetry.comments. A great deal of his work is about animals, or science fiction. Recently Jan was published by Kedco Studios Artist Profile Press, on their latest CD ROM e-book, "A Way With Words (Poetry Real and Surreal), which also includes complete books by Dale Houstman, Sara L. Russell and Keith Gabriel Hendricks. Jan's illustrated book on the CD is called "Wild Figments And Odd Conjectures", which is also sold separately, in a limited-edition "single" CD.
To see an illustrated article about Jan's poems, visit the November '98 issue of Poetry Life & Times, and scroll down past the Editor's Letter. He also has his own poetry pages on Charlotte's Web at Artvilla.
In New York long ago When nickel coffee reigned, Above Third Avenue On bulky structures, stained Rusty orange like old teeth, The rumbled roar of the el Flattened conversation down beneath, An iron demon out of Hell. Southeast a street of tranquility Where the literary sensibility Could graze on weathered books, Fondle dog-eared pages, Inhale their musty smell. Fourth Avenue below Union Square Was inhabited by small shops Barricaded by long boxes on legs Stocked with multitudes of old tomes, Jumbled display of outcast dregs Of private collections, printed ruminations From obscure minds to be bought For a mere few cents. Dickens sat with Einstein alongside Obscure statistics on the shape of bones Of cretaceous creatures That had stalked these very streets Emitting snorts and grunts and moans. This terminal moraine of thought To be excavated for nuggets – Antique volumes, odd British comic publications, Gold stamped leather bound collections Of men, pith helmeted, in deep explorations Carefully depicted with fine-lined steel engravings Plus a plethora of forgotten PhD dissertations. Today this archipelago of print is long gone, Eroded down to one last Strand Where still the studious flip pages With a searching eye, an anxious hand Fondly recalling one of New York’s finer ages. L’CHAIM © Jan Sand
Not grass nor ocean depth Invites this squirrel mind That misers memory and desire, Its gullet swallows galaxies, Wills to avoid the final fire. Ghosts croon no happy serenades I covet not the property That lies within the real estate Of the cockroach and the flea Live hands and open eyes Speak wisely of the value of their keep. For, treasure must be measured with a clock. It vanishes under dreamless sleep. ODYSSEY © Jan Sand
The shadow dance of Plato’s absolutes May deceive the non-reflective mind – Throw rainbows, blossoms, tempting fragrant fruits To entertain perception, keep it blind. Solidity is such a smug resource. It dominates with overconfidence So that each worldly touch does re-enforce Abstraction’s philosophic impotence. Intelligence can penetrate the mask, Dismiss the singing sirens of the sense, Thread through the black labyrinth of the task, Discern impossible cosmos, immense. So, in finality, traverse the secret gyre To turn, end, face full the hidden fire.
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