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Details of Mandy's Publications
'Bee Purple' - Published by Oversteps Books - see www.oversteps.com
'Frost Hollow' - Published by Oversteps Books - see www.oversteps.com
'Allotments in the Orbital' - From Searle Publishing - see www.searlepublishing.com
Review of 'Allotments in the Orbital' 'What I like most about Mandy Pannett's poetry is the way she sees the small things of her world within a wider orbit. It is there in her title. In her alloted plot of place and time, with its common slugs and flower pots, she takes as her context the geography, history, myth and art of 'Albion' and beyond Corregio 'in the Greenhouse' while 'Titian skies' move overhead. She is, as she declares, 'layered with many personae' through which she speaks or is spoken through. Other 'levels and layers' are constantly revealing themselves within the everyday of her life. 'Three steps exactly to the nearest ghost.' 'Ghost' is her favourite word, it seems. Though sometimes haunted by painful memories and presences, this poetry is wide open to allow the guardian spirits of Chaucer and Malory and others to move through its syllables. Mandy takes her work as a poet seriously, knowing that she is creating within the living stream of a tradition, a community of language that she is responsible to as she writes. She is also, by the way, most generous in her encouragement of others within the orbit of our present poetry. Paul Matthews 18 Nov 2009.
Transparent Words
ARCHITECTURAL VOICE
http://www.poetrykit.org/pkl/TW14.pdf
INTRODUCTION
This is a special edition of Transparent Words and I have the great pleasure of being able to publish a complete work by Mandy Pannett, THE CARVER’S MARK, together with other poems on a similar theme all of these poems are accompanied by pictures supporting the poems. There is little point in saying more as the poems and the pictures all do an excellent job of speaking for themselves.
Jim Bennett May 2010
CONTENTS
THE CARVER’S MARK Poems by Mandy Pannett pgs 3 -19
MISERICORDS
TUTIVILLIUS
FACES OF FOX
HARRIDAN
A Traveller from the Ship of Fools explores dry land ...
WINTER SEASON
UPON A WHITSUN TIDE
MAGIC CASEMENTS
WHITE BADGE
GRAFFITI OF SORTS
THIS IS MY HOME
STRONGHOLDS
AFTER SUNDAY
THE CARVER’S MARK
OTHER POEMS
St Mary the Virgin Kirkby Lonsdale Jim Bennett pg 21
Christchurch Priory Lesley Burt pg 22
Richardson Complex Lynn Ciesielski pg 23
The Comacini Gabriel Griffin pg 24
Shape shifter Gabriel Griffin pg 25
Bridekirk Font Martyn Halsall pg 26
Side Entrance Martyn Halsall pg 27
Staking a Claim Vivien Jones pg 28
St Mary Magdalene, Launceston Stuart Nunn pg 29
Bone Phillip’s Confession Stuart Nunn pg 30
Contributors pg 31
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