Multiplying The Moon

by Schneider, Myra

• ISBN13: 9781904634041
• ISBN10: 1904634044
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: Enitharmon Press

Summary

The opening poems of Multiplying the Moon are Schneider's response to her experience of terrible illness. In the aftermath of fighting breast cancer, she found herself writing poems that explore transience, death, and survival from many different ang

Author Biography

Myra Schneider spent most of her childhood on the Firth of Clyde, lived in Chichester during her teens and has lived in London since she went to University. She is the author of four poetry collections by Littlewood Press, three novels for children and teenagers by Heinemann and six collections by Enitharmon Press: Exits (1994), The Panic Bird (1998), Insisting on Yellow (2000), Multiplying The Moon (2004), Circling The Core (2008) and The Door to Colour (2014). Her poem ‘Goulash’ from this book was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, 2007. Second Light Publications published her long narrative poem, Becoming in 2007. Writing for Self-Discovery co-written with John Killick was published by Element Books in 1997. Writing My Way Through Cancer, her fleshed-out diary with poem notes, poems and therapeutic writing ideas was published by Jessica Kingsley in 2003. Writing Your Self, a resource book of personal writing co-written with John Killick was published by Continuum International in 2009. Myra has co-edited four anthologies of poetry by contemporary women poets. She is an experienced writing tutor and works as a core tutor for The Poetry School. She is consultant to the Second Light Network of women poets. She taught literacy and communication to severely disabled adults at a day centre for many years.

Table of Contents

Snowdrops	p. 9
Today there is time	p. 10
Bath	p. 10
The cave	p. 11
The shell	p. 12
Elsewhere	p. 13
Amazon	p. 15
Lavender	p. 16
When it's all over	p. 17
Piano	p. 18
Carpet	p. 19
Dancer	p. 20
Choosing yellow	p. 21
The car	p. 23
Flood	p. 25
The beanstalk and Jack	p. 27
Reincarnation	p. 29
The ant and the grasshopper	p. 30
The magic flute	p. 32
Plums	p. 33
Quickwrite	p. 35
Angel	p. 36
Library	p. 37
Asparagus	p. 39
Beast	p. 42
Paperweight	p. 43
Coral	p. 45
Face	p. 46
Park	p. 48
Heron poem	p. 51
Brains	p. 53
Letter	p. 54
Words	p. 56
Sea poem	p. 59
The ladder	p. 60
Seaweed	p. 62
Stone	p. 63
Scissors	p. 66
Voice	p. 67
Touch	p. 70
Words	p. 74
Picasso at the dentist's	p. 76
Leaving	p. 78
Apfelstrudel	p. 80
Cinnamon	p. 82
The house	p. 84
Your stories	p. 85
Poverty	p. 86
The Old Testament	p. 87
Cordoba	p. 89
The orange trees of Seville	p. 91
Watermelon	p. 92
August morning	p. 94
Moth	p. 96
Grapes	p. 97
Lamp	p. 99
Orpheus in the underground	p. 100
Door	p. 109
The toy cupboard	p. 110
Multiplying the moon	p. 112
Beyond	p. 114
Looking at light	p. 116
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