Publisher's Synopsis
When these poems were first published, some of which had first appeared in the 'Fleet Poetry Broadsheet' in 1944 in Ceylon, a critic wrote that they 'echoed 'through the mind with an almost unbearable melancholy that is agonizingly poised and self aware without undue self-indulgence Anne Bulley movingly stresses the need to seize moments of happiness...'
So let the days spin out
In magic hours and laughter,
That I may hold the thought
Long, long after. {Elizabeth Saxon, Red Candle Press)
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This verse is taken from a poem that has appeared in the following anthologies: Hands Across the Sea ed John Winton; BBC Woman's Hour 50th Anniversary Poetry Collection edited Pat McLoughlin; Chaos of the Night, (Virago) edited Catherine Reilly and Shadows of War edited Anne Powell. Any proceeds from the sale of the present volume, which contains nineteen poems and eighteen full colour paintings and collages will be given to Seafarers (UK) (formerly King George V Fund for Sailors) to commemorate 60 years since the end of the 2nd World War.
Anne Bulley is an historian with a special interest in marine India.
The artist, Hugh Bulley served with the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean, the Normandy landings and the Far East. He is at present engaged in painting classical studies from literature in series. He has had one man exhibitions in New York, Madrid, Basel and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. His lithographs have been published by Transworld Art of West 57th Street New York and screen prints by Ex Libris of Zurich.
