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Andrew Staniland's "Hymns, Films And Sonnetinas (2007)" are written in classical metre, in the romantic tradition of English poetry. They include ?Five Hymns? (dedicated to five gods and goddesses representing different elements of contemporary culture and spirituality), ?Twelve Films By Eric Rohmer?, ?An Older Actress? (a narrative poem in alexandrine couplets about a French actress and her film career), ?William Blake And The Eighteenth Century New Age? and ?Sonnetinas? (a miscellaneous sequence of sonnet-like miniatures). Revised edition.
Andrew Staniland's prose-poem novel ?The Beauty Of Psyche (2005)? is a retelling of the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche as a novel about imagination. The characters are played by actors, against a backdrop of paintings, models and sets. The story at times becomes a series of paintings and sculptures in an exhibition. And many of the references to people, films, theatre and other myths may or may not be imaginary too. Revised edition. Reading this I felt the excitement and pleasure of those long Romantic poems by Keats, Shelley and Byron or even Pope and Milton but it's not ?like? any of them. It is not a modern version of a classic, it is a modern classic... It's a genuine literary work of art. A true contemporary classic. It's beautiful, it's intelligent and I don't imagine I?ll ever read anything like it again.? Cally Phillips, indie e-book review
Andrew Staniland's prose-poem novel "The Weight Of Light (2004)" is a lyrical description of the inner life and spiritual practice of Delphine, a Frenchwoman living in London. It is set entirely in her apartment, like a camera recording the poetry of her daily life, her meditations and spiritual experiences. It is a "new spirituality" novel that is both literary and an honest description of a contemporary spiritual life. Revised edition.
Andrew Staniland's "Playful Poems" is a sequence of over a hundred short poems written between March 2015 and August 2016 and prompted by reading most of Shakespeare's plays in their likely chronological order. There are poems about the wars in Ukraine and Syria, refugees, dictators, nationalism and Brexit, as well as "The lovely wood of piebald light/That any English poem is".
"The Temple Of The Goddess" (1992) is a verse tragedy set in pre-classical Greece. A matriarchal bronze age state is invaded by a patriarchal iron age army. "The Playwright" (1993) is a drama about resurgent nationalism in post-communist Eastern Europe. "Mornings In The Life Of A Theatre Critic" (1993) is a London theatre comedy. "The Valley Of Stones" (1994) is a tragedy of survival and defiance in a refugee camp. Revised edition.
The poems in Andrew Staniland's "New Poems (2006)" are poems about contemporary spiritual experience, written in classical metre, in the romantic tradition of English poetry. They include a series of odes and a sequence of short poems which give the collection its title. Revised edition.
Andrew Staniland's "A Georgian Anthology" is a sequence of poems inspired by the classical myths about Prometheus and Colchis, by Georgia's own mythology and history, by its poetry, especially Shota Rustaveli's "The Knight In The Panther Skin", and by the beauty of the Georgian landscape, with its castles, towers, monasteries and the mountains of the Caucasus.
This is a collection of poems by Andrew Staniland from 1982 to 2004. Some are written in free verse, some in metric verse. They are in the romantic tradition of English poetry and explore contemporary spiritual and psychotherapeutic experience. Revised edition.
Andrew Staniland's "Rhapsodies (2014)" takes its title from the verse form of the two long poems at its centre, "Rhapsody" and "Corona Lumina", written in long rhyming couplets. The same verse form is used for a poem about the Ukrainian musicians Dakh Daughters and Valentin Silvestrov. There are translations from Russian and Ukrainian, a tribute to Seamus Heaney and a sequence of short poems about an album by the French singer-songwriter Amélie-les-crayons. Revised edition.
The three cine-poems collected here use classical blank verse and contemporary cinematic narrative techniques to tell their stories. "White Russian" (1995) is a lyrical description of a young Russian woman's life in London. "A Child Of God" (1996) is a comic study of a New Age guru and his small band of devotees. "A European Master" (1997) is a debate about contemporary aesthetic values between a French actress and an East European film director. Revised edition.