Riding the Rainbow

by Margaret Eddershaw

£5.00

A pamphlet collection in support of Ibba Girls School, South Sudan.

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ISBN 978-1-909404-25-0. Pamphlet collection 44 pages/

Margaret Eddershaw financed the production costs of this collection and all proceeds have gone to the Ibba Girls School in South Sudan with Poetry Space selling copies at zero commission.

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This lively and witty collection shows that Margaret is a traveller who, in the tradition of great poets, has an extraordinary gift for finding a visual image or a spoken phrase which somehow conjures up a person, a place, a culture, a moment in time.

John Benington

Sample poems

Riding the Rainbow

— Margaret Eddershaw 2015

(over Victoria Falls in a helicopter) We flutter in a bubbleover the misty delta,forest patchwork within shimmering bluespools beneath our feet. The Zambezi snakesthrough its brown skinbefore foaming like milkinto unseen depths,thundering under arched spans. Filligree cobwebs of spraywhisper towards us,lure us over the dizzying drop. Suddenly,in the stutter of a heartbeat,rainbow lightning streaks through the gorge. For one glorious momentI am Gaia.

Ibba Girls’ Pantoum

— Margaret Eddershaw 2015

A ‘found’ poem based on the girls’ words We are really lucky to be learning here,No-one ever beats us in this new school,We can express ourselves without fear,No fighting among the girls is the rule. No-one ever beats us in this new school,Our lovely teachers teach with great care,No fighting among the girls is the rule,Learning to live in peace and to share. Our lovely teachers teach with great care,We have clean water and delicious food,Learning to live in peace and to share,Our bad behaviours are changed to good. We have clean water and delicious food,No longer labourers, we just learn and play,Our bad behaviours are changed to good,Matron cares for us all in a true family way. No longer labourers, we just learn and play,Solars provide light for our study at night,Matron cares for us all in a true family way,We sleep in neat beds, with guards on site. Solars provide light for our study at night,We can express ourselves without fear,We sleep in neat beds, with guards on site,We are really lucky to be learning here.

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Author	Margaret Eddershaw
Publisher	poetryspace
Imprint	poetryspace
SKU	978-1-909404-25-0
Language	English

Riding the Rainbow

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