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Phoenix Poetry
& Phoenix Special Publication
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Phoenix New Life Poetry & New World Creation Project News
& Reviews
Original foundation at Bougie, Algeria 1949, contacts disrupted
by the Algerian Civil War in the 1960's, re-established at Toulon,
France, in 1989 by Ludovic, one of its three original co-founders
& continuing to evolve!
A quarterly, international journal for
engaged poets of the New Millennium with a positive, utopian,
spiritual & holistic social vision for humanity & the Planetary
Creation of which we are a part, as its trustees & custodians,
in the spirit of Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Blake &
Allen Ginsberg.
Co-founding poets; David Allen Stringer & Dr Emmanuel Petrakis,
Members of the "Planetary Council" of the "Universal Alliance
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Contact Address: David Allen Stringer, 12
Place Rd. Fowey, Cornwall UK PL23 1DR
Email: unialli@tiscali.co.uk |
Annual Subscriptions
(Inc p&p:)
U.K £14,
Europe 25 euros
Beyond £20 / $30 or equivalents
U.S. Cheques & Money Orders payable to:
"The UniversalAlliance"
Postal Orders to David Allen Stringer
For a single issue only, send us one quarter of the total
annual subscription, as indicated above
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Issues No1 to 11 are now available on request, as printed
hard copies with colour covers on receipt of the requisite
£3 each, as also, Issues Nos 8 to 11, available, free
of charge, sent as email attachments
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"Culture"
is, anthropologically and strictly speaking, a definition of
the whole of the Way of Life of a Society, not only of a marginalized
or sanitised and unchallenging corner called "The Arts".
Since my childhood, in the 1950's, the "community integrity"
of especially Western society, of the "extended family"
and the creative, self-reliant village/neighbourhood has progressively
disintegrated with our many competing and isolated egoisms.
"The New Renaissance" is about much more than a literary-artistic
movement but for the overall healing and reconstruction of our
societies and their planetary environment.
Almost all the elements of this much needed socio-economic and
cultural re-creation have emerged in the spiritual, new age,
natural health, community-creation and green movements since
the 1960's & 70's: however, poetry and the related Arts (such
as Music), liberated by surrealism and rock-n'-roll, from traditional
conventions in the 1950's & 60's, since those decades of early
promise, appear to have been either neglected, ghettoised or
to have become 'stuck' in the 'ranting' or cynical 'negativity'
of knowing what one detests, but not knowing what one, more
positively, values & aspires to.
In our magazine we will not react to this by seeking to 'escape
into a romantic faerie tale', but will seek to strike a wholesome
balance between 'angry protest' and the beauty-&- beatitude
of our divine creation that many lose sight of amidst crises,
poverty & suffering!
Now, however, in this dawn of the promise of the New Mlllenium
is re-emerging the inspiration for the New Renaissance
movement in poetry, music and literature as currently manifest
in "The Order of Wandering Bards" (born from England
& Macedonia) and The Partners Writing Group (based in
Middlesex, England), together with our own, as above, with initial
imput from Shelley's Hellas and Blake's Albion.
We, here, reach out, to the rest of the World, for your participation.
Visionary prose writings can be included,
at our discretion, as extracts, in our "Reviews" section
and we will, also, be able to use visionary paintings etcetera,
as visual contributions to our pages via the Computer-scanner,
with poetry as our priority.
Thus, we welcome poems on such themes as: peace, freedom,
social-& -political justice, social comment, spiritual, psychic
& religious experiences, communing with the Creator & Creation,
healing prayers & invocations, 'new romantic' interpretations
of classical myths & legends (e.g. those of 'Orpheus' or the
'Holy Grail') or whatever may be your own dream!
All styles are welcome. There are no
set limits on the length of each poem. What matters is their
motivating spirit!
Poets are invited to send in, with their
work, a concise profile of themselves, their concerns or their
autobiographies and, if they so wish, we can add their addresses
to their work, as printed, should they seek to be contacted
by sympathetic souls!
We are especially interested in News and Information about Community
Projects which involve Education-for-Harmonious Living or shared
Artistic Creativity, such as the Etopia project near Nafpaktos
on the Gulf of Corinth in Greece.
We, also, welcome free-exchanges of journals or of mutual publicity,
by arrangement, with other 'cultural periodicals' such
as feel that they share the essential spirit of our initiative.
Choice poems in other languages (French or Greek) can be
translated if we feel that they are of merit, otherwise poets
in other languages (e.g. Russian) will, themselves, have to
make their own translations of their work into English to their
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Songs From & For the Spirit
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A PERSONAL
SPIRITUAL JOURNEY IN VERSE
OF A VISION QUESTER
SOME SELECTED POEMS, SONGS, CHANTS, PRAYERS & MEDITATIONS
IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER FROM 1963 TO THE YEAR 2000
BY DAVID ALLEN STRINGER
60 poems (and prose poems) etc. in 36 pages, including 3 colour
reproductions of the author's paintings as plates, a special
cover design by the author and a diagram indicating the Phoenix
Symbolism of Life, Death & Rebirth in relation to the Sephiroth
of the Qabalistic Tree of Life
Price: £6.50, 10 Euros, $10 US or equivalent, including
P & P
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Is
Poetry Ever Dead (1993)
Is poetry ever dead, as dead,
As the paper from which it is read,
As the poet wrote it, long ago,
 Whom
we have framed in past history?
The poem is most alive for the poet,
In its inspirations moment;
the poem is most alive for those who hear,
when, for them, it becomes the inspirer;
The poem is never dead, for it is within
Breathes the poets spirit, though his body be gone.
Nor can the bardic tradition die,
Only the bards' voice and name changes,
Homer and Yeats are alive as I,
in this time is nothing, for poetry resides
In the Spirit Power Pillar of the Tree of Life
That reaches up to the crown, Our eternal Spirit,
We are the channels for its messages, not,
in the end, our name, but the poem itself that matters |
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"Phoenix Poet's Special Publication" No.1
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£6.50,
10 Euros or $10 US Including P & P
Please make cheques payable to "The Universal Alliance"
Phoenix New Life Poetry, 12 Place Rd.
Fowey, Cornwall UK PL23 1DR
Email: unialli@tiscali.co.uk
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A Rainbow for a Noah's Ark
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A REPRESENTATIVE
SPECTRUM, SAMPLE CROSS-SECTION OF THE POEMS OF EMMANUEL PETRAKIS
ON THESE THEMES: CHRISTIAN, EROS, GENERAL HUMOUR, LOVE, MYSTICAL,
NATURE, POLITICAL SATIRE, SOCIAL COMMENT & PEACE
A PHOENIX NEW LIFE POETRY SPECIAL PUBLICATION |
 Price:
£2, $4 US, 3 Euros or equivalent including P&P
Available free as an email attachment.
All proceeds go towards the work for of the Universal Alliance.
Postal orders payable to David Allen Stringer
Cheques payable to the "Universal Alliance"
Currency notes preferred as regards US $'s & Euros to be
sent to: Phoenix New Life Poetry
12 Place Rd. Fowey, Cornwall UK PL23 1DR
Email: unialli@tiscali.co.uk |
Or, contact Dr Emmanuel Petrakis, direct at,
chez Mme Mary Fantoudis, Le Fructidor No6,
Jas de Bouffan, 13090 Aix-en-Provence
Tel: (0033) (0) 442.526.508, France |
Special Publications,
also intend, in the near future to produce a much larger collection
of the Peace Poems of Dr Petrakis. Further details of this will
be made available, as soon as we have worked out the format
& other aspects of this collection, the proceeds from which
will go towards helping with the humanitarian work of creating
a better global society & more harmonious way of living
on the Planet-
So watch this space! Phoenix Poets Special Publications are
produced at the discretion and on the invitation of the editors
of Phoenix New Life Poetry alone. We do not welcome unsolicited
manuscripts. The Poets featured must be subscribing supporters
of and participants in the journal itself, which is the publishing
function of the Phoenix Poets International Friendship Circle.
Other activities include promoting live poetry & music events
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