Jane Pearn’s poetry and short stories have appeared in several print and online magazines including The Blue Nib, Brittle Star, Snakeskin, and Ink, Sweat & Tears. Jane has two published poetry collections.
Missions by the Spirit captures Quaker (Friends Church) dynamics in global outreach. Author Ron Stansell shows that Quakers have carried out some aspects of missions differently than other evangelicals.
This monumental new book includes all the significant pieces from that period, along with new and unpublished works, constituting a personal epic that spans four and a half decades of writing.
Metamorphic rather than anthropomorphic, these poems depict the 'creatureliness' of all existance:how distinctions between the non-human and human worlds dissolve as you look at them...
Three long poems - contemplating `The Uses of Greek', imagining the poet Sappho living out her life on the island of Inishbofin, and celebrating `The Farness of Latin' - mark transitions between thematic clusters of shorter pieces.