Book
Review : Ancient Heart Magazine
Anthology 2006 for poetry
Reviewed
by Katherine L. Gordon,
Editor, Publisher, Judge and Reviewer,
Canadian Anthologist (the latest: Myth Weavers, Serengeti Press, release date April, 2007.)
Directly available from Lionheart Press http://www.lulu.com/content/562958
Ancient
Heart Magazine Anthology
for 2006 is a thick and satisfying book to hold and read.
The
eye-riveting blue cover, suggesting deep ocean or swirling cosmos,
hints at the endless variety of creativity within.
Anthologies are
often the darlings of readers and editors, because they introduce new
writers with fresh perspectives, while keeping established writers
available in new context. This anthology has been compiled with
the keen skill of Ancient Heart Magazine’s editor, Richard van der
Draaij. The poems flow together in a text that has harmony.
Read
a page at a time, each selection is an entity of its own, blending with
the insights of its companions. There is so much talent gathered here.
Visit Ashley Potts on Page 37, a 12 year old girl whose verse will help
you capture the original energy of all things possible.
Ashley
manages to tie the folds of life, that diverge in time to worlds of
their own, restore them to a tight ball of questions while tapping into
the jazz music of the spheres.
James
Robert Campbell’s
“Nothing, Now” holds a solemn answer to Ashley’s youthful questions.
We
can absorb Piano Key Poetry, Rodney’s Cat, the Invisible, and the
rather wry few lines by James Morris “In The Post Office.” Morris’s In
The Art Gallery are three lines that will stay with me at so many
levels when I tour institutions. The Anthology explores every
taste, the unique differences highlighting the endearing
commonalities.
"Ancient Heart" always suggests the cave to space
symbols that open a
poetic vision of the experience of life and emotion, connecting mundane
events to the deep currents that carry us. This
anthology allows us to review the myriad impressions of the day as
Sultana Raza writes: “while satyrs,
centaurs,/ and horses run free.”
c. by Katherine L. Gordon, 2007
- Interview with Richard James van der Draaij
