{"product_id":"cassiopeia-lying-eastward-mark-whelehan-9780956489951","title":"Cassiopeia Lying Eastward: Poems on love and life in the English Countryside","description":"\u003cp\u003eCassiopeia Lying Eastwards is a work of art, literally. It contains lyrical poetry at its best. Author Mark Whelehan has crafted the text and drawings from his own hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark uses words as sounds and mental pictures. Emotive verses which reach crescendos of feeling, cadences - rhythmic flows of a sequence of sounds he tries to echo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book also contains two poems by his father (Seos Whelehan), published to show, in part, where Mark draws his poetic heritage from.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy studying many forms of poetry, Mark has developed a style built from various forms - from free flow to structured... it may be breaking somebody's rules, but if it works, then he's happy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Whelehan first came across the Vale of Potterne Wick, part of the Pewsey Vale, when walking a beagle dog at the age of ten. He was spellbound by a sea of buttercups drowning everywhere your eye roamed, great waves of yellow and green, licking and lapping the bases of giant, ancient oaks. He would then for many future years walk there with his brother Paul and sisters Danat, Delmar and Colette.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt took him forty-five years to be able to buy a piece of it, at Crookwood, and set about sculpting oak stumps and writing verse... eventually deciding to create 'Over Crookwood', published as an eBook on Amazon. This further set of poems includes some of those from 'Over Crookwood' plus his own sketches. His sculptures and poem extracts are secreted about the Vale... publicly in; Devizes, Potterne \u0026amp; Urchfont - and privately in various locations. These sculptures have extracts from his poems, mounted on brass plaques and the completed published works relate true love and characters and aspects, he found around here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese works are all manufactured from the poet, Mark Whelehan's life interest in astronomy, wildlife and nature and how it all compliments, synchronises and works together to form the place, between imagination and reality, where he finds his peace of mind, his core faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf dawn, he writes...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The man in the moon looks down on me\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn my slipshod aqua bed I doze\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd only when the malachite of yew and sky meet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere springs a nest of gold spun light\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich emanates from a cluster of far flung planets and stars\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInto which a red berry sits like interloping mars\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eM.W. 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Whelehan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0956489958\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780956489951\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ditty Box Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/24\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.35d","brand":"Mark Whelehan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44063510823167,"sku":"9780956489951","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b236592e-bce2-4ebc-ae16-4efc2b621ad9.jpg?v=1685389987","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cassiopeia-lying-eastward-mark-whelehan-9780956489951","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}