This Wild Dance


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This Wild Dance draws inspiration from the natural world, the turning of the seasons and the cultural heritage of both Northwestern Europe and early Buddhism. The poems are short and direct, each seeking to capture a moment of inspiration in sharp relief in the hope that the reader will share in the sense of wonder that birthed them.




The Wild Dance of the Hunted Gypsy


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Zoe Williamson offers us some of the most beautiful, impassioned poetry written among modern poets today. For poetry fans and those motivated by romance and love, this collection of wonderful poetry is sure to delight as we follow her unique exploration of loves precious, unfolding journey which she is able to relate in this, her latest edition of work. Zoe Williamson emerges as an unusual writer, using experiences she has accumulated throughout her varied, colourful life having travelled extensively around the world living in a variety of countries. She speaks 4 languages, has pursued a career in theatre ,taught English in South America for several years and is married and mother to four children currently living in the United Kingdom. She is presently working on her next venture writing childrens books influenced and inspired by her role as mother and care giver. Zoe is passionately involved in spreading awareness about Autism and ADHD and is an ardent supporter of all charities and work concerned with self harm and depression in the youth community. Zoe has a great love of music, theatre, and the arts and frequently refers to her nomadic tread as she is a keen and versatile traveller. She is a Nichiren Buddhist and member of the SGI.




Marnie, the Kerchief and the Wild Dance


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Marnie, the grand matriarch and her elephant herd have been told that there is a plague spreading across the land. Their kindly human neighbours offer to help prevent them from getting sick by making them special kerchiefs to cover their trunks., However, there is a problem. Although the herd feels grateful for the kerchiefs the human have made, they find it almost impossible to go about their daily routines of living while wearing them. Marnie feels sad and concerned about this and knows she must solve the problem for the sake of the herd. She sets off by herself onto the grasslands to think about what she can do. There, she has a memory of a special dance performance she saw when she was just a calf. This exciting and joyful memory inspires her to do her own dance and this leads her to find a solution to the problems the herd is facing!.Marnie shares her delight and new found knowledge with her eager community. As the herd members follow Marnie's instructions, 8 year old JoJo realizes there is still one problem left that must be solved. Out of his own dance, he arrives at an ingenious solution and gets to remind the herd of a very important lesson about life and living together.




Wild Heart Dancing


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There is a creative genius inside of you just waiting to get out. Wild Heart Dancing shows you how to free that innovative spirit by spending a day playing with words, music, songs, dance, and paints. You don't need to be artistic to benefit from the teachings of Elliot Sobel, you just need to open up and take the time to try your hand at new ways of expressing yourself.




Dance of the Wild


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My Sweet Wild Dance


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The Wild White Man of Badu


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This true story came from the ship's log of the HMS Rattlesnake under the command of Captain Owen Stanley... who was searching for the Kennedy expedition... sailing the Coral Seas searching for men in the peninsula ranges, and Barbara Thompson was captive on Murralug; Billy Winn, an escaped convict from Norfolk Island, had, through a reign of terror and treachery, cowed the most fearful of all peoples - the Coral Sea headhunters. He had taken power on Badu as the feared demi-god Wongai. Hearing that a white woman was to be found on Murralug, he gathered the Badu headhunters to raid Murralug... However Barbara, after being held on Murralug for five years, succeeded in escaping from the Murralug people and Wongai, and incredibly, was rescued by Captain Owen Stanley and taken back to Sydney. - Beverley Eley, from her biography Ion Idriess.




The Streets of New York


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". . . one of the country's most prominent experimental dramatists." - The New York Times Here are five enthusiastically received plays set in New York by Charles Mee: Coney Island Avenue, The Mail Order Bride, Queens Boulevard, Utopia Parkway, and Our Times: On the Street Where I Live. "You would have to be blind not to be impressed . . . " - CurtainUp.com "In Queens Boulevard . . . Mee essentially throws a lavish, heartfelt party for New York City's most diverse borough. Guests at the wedding of Vijay . . . and Shizuko . . . cavort in traditional Indian and Japanese costumes on Mimi Lien's festive scenic re-creation of Jackson Heights' polyglot street life; Russian bath denizens do a swiveling striptease to Pakistani qawwali music . . . ; the playlist riffs gleefully through francophone rap, Okinawan folk-pop and ABBA karaoke. Mee's loose-limbed plot - based on an Indian Kathakali play and inflected with Homer - sends his newlyweds on diverging quests, all the better for them to get instructively tangled in nets of social discord and obligation. Vijay's friend Abdi . . . passionately hammers home Mee's point: that the 'social love' of a community 'makes a safe place for our personal love to flourish.'. . . Dig in the dancing Queens, indeed." - TimeOut.com "Queens Boulevard . . . [is] absolutely bursting with vitality. . . . [and] it ends on a strong, feel-good note that has both actors and audience members exiting with smiles on their faces." - theatermania.com




‘Wit’s Wild Dancing Light’


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The book is a chronological reading of Alexander Pope’s poems, from the Pastorals (1709) to the four-book Dunciad (1743). Each of the 26 chapters forming the volume selects examples for detailed scrutiny, demonstrating how close reading can generate understanding of a whole poem and how critical appraisal can build into a creative survey of an entire poetic career. The book’s approach is intended to be both scholarly and accessible and 'Wit's Wild Dancing Light' will be of interest to scholars, students and anybody interested in Pope’s masterful poetry.




The Wild


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A novel about the wonder and difficulties of childhood, families and growing up by the author of Hideous Kinky and Love Falls 'A beautiful book, savage and tender by turns ... attending to Esther Freud's still, truthful voice becomes not only a pleasure but a necessity' Jonathan Coe 'Wonderful ... Freud has a precious and remarkable gift for creating fictional children. She is infinitely patient with the subtle differences between the worlds of children and adults, and her descriptions of the collisions between them are hauntingly beautiful' The Times Nine-year-old Tess has never seen anything like The Wild. An old bakery, converted into a home, it has a fireplace big enough to sit in, a garden with a badminton net and another one for vegetables. And then there's William, its owner. Single father of three, he cooks homemade ravioli, cuts trees down with a chainsaw and plays the guitar. When her mother, Francine, rents two rooms from him, Tess can hardly believe her luck. Her brother Jake, however, proves harder to convince. As the two grown-ups begin to fall for each other, Tess struggles to please the adults as well as win Jake round. But she finds that good intentions don't always bring happiness and that adults are disturbingly capable of making mistakes...




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