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“The most obvious aspect of Ringland’s poems is their original and true-to-life images from nature. But there is another component; I would call it wisdom. Moving through all the poems is the wisdom of one who has looked carefully and thought deeply.” – Dr. Shirley Walker, author Roundabout at Bangalow. “Fence-posts, salty plums, a father’s felt hat, the joys and sorrows of a life recalled in its autumn years; Jean Ringland takes us on a lyrical journey into Seamus Heaney’s ‘heartland of the ordinary’ and returns us quietly altered.” – says local award-winning poet, Max Ryan.
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Poetry from Byron Bay and Beyond (Anthology) “Sensoria brings into conversation poems by poets living along Australia’s most eastern seaboard. It’s a little dangerous, sometimes sexy and sometimes wry, but there’s never any doubt that it’s always plugged-in to the human seat of sensation.” – Bronwyn Lea. “Here is a group of writers as obviously concerned with craftmanship as impulse. These are poems that could hold their own against any urban offerings… The poems tread with a respectful lightness on the world, but they do not comment lightly on it.” – Judy Johnson.
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“Powerful poetry, so rich in imagery, so in tune with our times...” – Richard Jones. “Beginning with the question, What If, and continuing through Kali declaring in Lilith’s voice, Hear me, I make no mistakes, these poems express a life dedicated to the Divine in the mundane…” – Kulavadhuta Satpurananda.
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by Laura Jan Shore “This passionate and spirited collection of Laura’s is not only a great start for Dangerously Poetic, but it is also a fiery riposte to the general community view that poetry is stale, obscure, irrelevant, and boring. Breathworks has spark aplenty. May the Goddess, who has clearly been called on a number of times in the writing of these poems, bless this book and its passage.” – Dorothy Porter. “Right from the beginning, from the first poem, there’s the breath and the trees, the spinning earth and revolving time, the mirror held up to the self and to others, the delight in the rainforest, the fecundity of nature and the ambivalence of passion, the cycle of song that is life. A book rich in sensitivity and experience, poems negotiated through pain into acceptance and love. A wonderful first book from Dangerously Poetic Press.” – Ron Pretty, Five Islands Press.
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