{"product_id":"winter-solstice-gerald-bullett-9781763565609","title":"Winter Solstice: A Poem","description":"\u003cp\u003eGerald Bullett's life was marked by war. He served in the First World War for four years in his twenties, and then worked for the BBC in London during the Second World War, in middle life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike many authors, the unique insights brought by such terrible exposure gave him a philosophical bent of mind, and a longing for peace, a liking for what came out at times of quiet. This was never far away in his works, either as a major theme, or at the very least consistently present in the background.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerhaps nowhere was this more the case than in this long poem, first published in 1943. Taking as its temporal locale the very middle of winter, with all the quiet and stillness this predicates, Bullett enters the mental space where the rush and hurry of the world are left behind, and the mind can seek fresh deeper understandings, expanding into a rarely approachable zone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking in creativity, desire, love, pain and the unnameable workings of the spirit, he essays a profound philosophical meditation. That we cannot ultimately say all that perhaps needs to be said, that we are stymied by feelings of powerlessness and of our unimportance when all is said and done - these are to him indicators of the mystery which we will never divine, and perhaps never should.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut also \u003cem\u003eWinter Solstice\u003c\/em\u003e gives brief glimpses of beauty - of low light and warmth, of snow-covered fallow land and bare trees, of the survival of tiny birds in winter's harshness, but most of all of the value of quiet, and its gift of insight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gerald Bullett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1763565602\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781763565609\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Walmer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/25\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.25d","brand":"Gerald Bullett","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47965316677887,"sku":"9781763565609","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_94e051eb-3cb9-48ac-8a8e-49d6f87659ce.jpg?v=1767279730","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/winter-solstice-gerald-bullett-9781763565609","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}