PHOENIX NEW LIFE POETRY
& NEW WORLD CREATION PROJECT NEWS & REVIEWS
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 ".
Contact Address: David Allen Stringer, Four Turnings Bungalow, Newtown,
Fowey, Cornwall PL23 1JU U.K. Tel. (00 44) (0) 1726 832196
Email: universalalliance.org@tinyworld.co.uk
Annual Subscriptions (Inc p&p: U.K £12, Europe
£14 20 Euros Beyond £16 $25
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 !
Issues 1, 2 & 3 Summer, Autumn & Winter 2000 and Issues 4,5 & 6 Spring,
Summer & Autumn-Winter 2001 - Now Available
"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 own satisfaction.
Songs From & For the Spirit
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: £4.99, 8 Euros, $8 US or equivalent, including P &
P
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
"Phoenix Poet's Special
Publication" No.1
£4.99 or $8US
Including P & P
Please make cheques payable to "The Universal Alliance"
Phoenix New Life Poetry, Four Turnings Bungalow, Newtown, Fowey,
Cornwall, PL23 1 JU, U.K.
Tel: (0044) (0) 1726 832196
Email: universalalliance.org@tinyworld.co.uk
A Rainbow for a Noah's Ark
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, $4US, 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
Four Turnings Bungalow, Newtown,
Fowey, Cornwall PL23 1JU U.K.
Tel: (0044) (0) 1726 832196
Email: universalalliance.org@tinyworld.co.uk
Or, contact Dr Emmanuel Petrakis,
direct, in Greece at:
6 Galvani, Athens 112 55
Tel: (0030) 10 22 30 439 Fax 8221 186 Phoenix Poets
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 etc.
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