Elizabeth Martina Bishop

"This poetic evocation of spirit is part of a controlled semiotics ultimately contrasting with the force of a wind that can suddenly blow through a field, changing everything in an instant. The flowing of the wind of spirit can surrender a harvest consisting of many days or even a few days whereby we can enjoy the sound of the wind and the soughing touch of the wind on the body. While the wind of spirit may know how to touch us, perhaps we will never...

"These recent poems by Elizabeth Martina Bishop merge plot-lines of story poem with the crescendo offered by the lyric narrative. Each poem has a mystical quality and evidences a search for the ineffable and inexpressible in language fraught with imagery, metaphor and allusion. Enjoy the latest volume which contains poems about family, poems about work, and poems about every day existence of an elder living in community with other artists interested...

These photos and poetry gathered here reflect the creative bridge in communication alternating between meditative image and the power of words. The life of the bohemian poet is revealed, the aesthetics of image is reproduced for your enjoyment in order to jump start the reader's imagination.

"Bishop's poems in this volume include multiple projections of dark and light embedded in mirrors operating within the inner realms as transcendent reminders of the possibility of the exploration of body mind and spirit. Her poems range from transcendent images that spin and astonish with a luminous enjoyment of the senses. It is a kind of slam poetry that is more charming than what one at first thinks of. It is not easy hallmark card kind of poetry....

"A mysterious and poignant exploration of poetic memoir to deepen an awareness of who we are and where we are headed. In days of uncertainty we find our footing. We find poetry in an urban coming of age story. How does one interpret life events that seem in old age to have a dream-like quality? In any event it is up to each individual to transmute and transform seemingly meaningless events. Eventually, we find out we are wordsmiths who must take the...

"Here is a smorgasbord of poetry. The offerings here represent a compendium of old and new works written within the last five years. All are from the inspired works of poet Elizabeth Martina Bishop who has been writing since the age of seven years old. Many of the poems selected here can lend readers a collage of witness extending the extemporaneous aspects of her works that range from lyric to narrative poems. Some of the poems deliberately offer...

"Poet and author, Elizabeth Martina Bishop, has fashioned a well-crafted work that demonstrates a provocative and thematic text. The book you now hold in your hand possesses an ambiance indicative of the divine feminine. Looking at ways of living in the world and approaching new paths that deepen and develop a voice of witness in the wilderness is what this book is all about. It will open your mind and delight your heart."--Back cover.

Roman historians suggested the black swan never existed as a species found in the natural world. However, poets well know the icon of the black swan is alive and well and swimming across many sign posts of pubs in the British Isles. Read these poems and savor a lyrical exuberance that activates, quickens and celebrates a cosmic song

"This poetic novel promises an occasion for celebration and ceremony. Meanwhile, the ritual of ceremony exists only within the mind of the celebrants who are on the point of undertaking a long journey. This novel promises an ambitious time line involving the completion of a journey. However, no actual ritual of ceremony is actually performed. Instead, the act of writing is seen as a self-redemptive and self-revelatory journey occasioning a spiritual...

"Filmed in Dublin at Trinity College, an off-camera interview by Luke Daniel Holland introduces Elizabeth, a born poet. This is a gem of a film which helps viewers understand the burgeoning of creative juices leading to poetic wit and an evocative outpouring uplifting viewers from all walks of life." --Container.