In the poems in Letters and Conjectures, the poet inherits her father's love of letter writing with a theme or consideration to explore. Several years of Sunday visits to museums and galleries, in particular the British Museum, set the poems in Museum Musings in motion. And some who stand and pass and wonder, gazing on these timeless dancers, marvel, finding an echo from within, vibrant as life liberated from cold marble, and ponder in the heart, as I have done, on Man and Time and Life and Art. (from 'The Nereids', Museum ...
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In the poems in Letters and Conjectures, the poet inherits her father's love of letter writing with a theme or consideration to explore. Several years of Sunday visits to museums and galleries, in particular the British Museum, set the poems in Museum Musings in motion. And some who stand and pass and wonder, gazing on these timeless dancers, marvel, finding an echo from within, vibrant as life liberated from cold marble, and ponder in the heart, as I have done, on Man and Time and Life and Art. (from 'The Nereids', Museum Musings) Letters and Conjectures & Museum Musings comprises two collections of poetry and is the third book in a series of four that also includes: Fragments, The Dreamers & Lost Voices, and Tales and Truths. 'These collections of poetry came about almost spontaneously and kept me engaged and happy at a time when many options were closing on me due to illness. Many are the uses of adversity.' (Elizabeth Barnes)
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