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Poetry Reading: Poiesis Lovers

Jan 26, 2014 10:45
Chisholme House, Scottish Borders TD9 7PH
Beshara School


... tell them I said, if a poet
is really a poet he is a lover; 
lovers are defrosted waters 
melted down-words
I saw my roots entangled 
with yours in the mists

~ Narda Azaria Dalgleish

Narda Dalgleish will be reading from a new collection of her work, and some poems from her first book, I Israel Ask: A Spiritual Response to Love and Death, published in 2007.

Come to Chisholme at 10:15 for coffee and refreshments, followed by the poetry and conversation, 10:45–12:00. How to get to Chisholme.

I am an Israeli-British designer, a contemplative writer and a long term student of the Beshara School. I am fascinated by the human mystery, which has become the landscape for my poetry. I love to experiment and explore language itself so as to express the new linguistic demands which arise in that landscape. 

I feel there was never a time when the need for language to rise up to its universal dimension has been more acutely urgent. I feel that the greatest purpose of language and poetry is to awaken the heart, to open it up to its fullest Love-scope. Poetry sparks in me the relentless requirement for authentic description. It demands to expose and draw out new meanings - it must be surprising. Poetry demands a reorientation towards the Unknown. Actually, it demands  the permanent practice of staying in the Unknown without knowing. Poetry can dive into the deepest reverberational affirmation-zones and continue to reverberate therein regardless of the extent or duration of my understanding or awareness. Poetry must be embodied. It resonates with the cords of my most ancient origins. It melts my divisions in vision. If it destroys, as it must do, its side effects are healing and life and a new sense of perception of beauty. Poetry loves the Eye of the coming world. 

I am looking forward to reading a few poems from my first poetry book, 'I, Israel, Ask: A Spiritual Response to Love and Death', as well as a selection of new poems from my forthcoming book. But I would no less love to explore with you anything that comes up. I hope you can come.


... tell them I said, if a poet
is really a poet he is a lover; 
lovers are defrosted waters 
melted down-words
I saw my roots entangled 
with yours in the mists

~ Narda Azaria Dalgleish

Narda Dalgleish will be reading from a new collection of her work, and some poems from her first book, I Israel Ask: A Spiritual Response to Love and Death, published in 2007.

Come to Chisholme at 10:15 for coffee and refreshments, followed by the poetry and conversation, 10:45–12:00. How to get to Chisholme.

I am an Israeli-British designer, a contemplative writer and a long term student of the Beshara School. I am fascinated by the human mystery, which has become the landscape for my poetry. I love to experiment and explore language itself so as to express the new linguistic demands which arise in that landscape. 

I feel there was never a time when the need for language to rise up to its universal dimension has been more acutely urgent. I feel that the greatest purpose of language and poetry is to awaken the heart, to open it up to its fullest Love-scope. Poetry sparks in me the relentless requirement for authentic description. It demands to expose and draw out new meanings - it must be surprising. Poetry demands a reorientation towards the Unknown. Actually, it demands  the permanent practice of staying in the Unknown without knowing. Poetry can dive into the deepest reverberational affirmation-zones and continue to reverberate therein regardless of the extent or duration of my understanding or awareness. Poetry must be embodied. It resonates with the cords of my most ancient origins. It melts my divisions in vision. If it destroys, as it must do, its side effects are healing and life and a new sense of perception of beauty. Poetry loves the Eye of the coming world. 

I am looking forward to reading a few poems from my first poetry book, 'I, Israel, Ask: A Spiritual Response to Love and Death', as well as a selection of new poems from my forthcoming book. But I would no less love to explore with you anything that comes up. I hope you can come.

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