Poetry & Art Information
Magda Palmer
Poetry is the heart-beat & core of all literature. Poetry has music but no written notes, a plethora of colours visible to the mind. It is the rhythm of life & truth incarnate of the writer. There is no doubt that the ear delights in the combinations of pattern, rhythm and rhyme, just as the feet delight in dancing to a musical tune, yet the great wordsmiths of yesteryear who specialised in this form are practically forgotten and would have little chance of winning a poetry contest because Prose Poetry is fashionable and far easier to write.
Poetry reflects a nation's culture and is as old as written history. Poetry can be divided into ten or more genres with the Epic Poem being a major form of narrative literature combining verse and drama, usually telling a tale of happening, romance, or heroism. The oldest epic poem was discovered etched into 4,000-year-old, fragmented clay tablets from Mesopotamia-a great work of literature on which the story of the Biblical story of Noah and the flood was obviously based. Today this would be called plagiarism because the Legal Dictionary defines plagiarism as “The act of appropriating the literary composition of another, or parts of passages of his writings, or the ideas or language of the same, and passing them off as the products of one’s own mind”.
Prose poetry is a hybrid of poetry and prose supposedly heightened by words of imagery, which one may argue is an integral part of good writing anyway. Prose can be likened to a single paragraph from any story or “flash fiction” broken into paragraphs that are broken into single lines. Shakespeare often used prose to distinguish ordinary characters from the nobility-they spoke in verse.
All forms of poetry are about communicating a message to the reader, to the listener, the narrator, the receiver, and all poetry is an insight into culture and history.
My epic poem titled "WindRose" is a rich tapestry in the rhyming couplet which tells the tale of an ancient goddess who experiences wanton romance for the first time from a self-serving suitor. They both experience a passion and spiritual development with far-reaching objectives.
Sale of Artwork.
Most paintings on this site may be for sale either as originals or as limited edition prints. A limited-edition print is a print of which there will only ever be a certain number of prints produced and once they are sold, there will not be any more available. A Limited Edition print is signed, produced on archival quality paper and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
"Archival-Prints" are Museum-quality Fine-Art reproductions. These artworks are made with an ultra-high-resolution fine-art printer, using the very finest archival inks and acid-free papers.
The Zodiac prints are not limited edition but are Archival Prints scanned from the original pen and ink drawings. They may be purchased as they are printed from the original pen and ink drawings or with added, hand-painted watercolours at additional cost to the price of the print.
If you are interested in purchase, please contact me through this site.
No art on this site may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical including photocopying, downloading, or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of Magda Palmer Cordingley with exception of recipes from Vegan Cookbook linked to this site. All artwork is copyright and remains the exclusive property of the Artist - Magda Palmer Cordingley © 2019
"Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity". Daniel Barenboim (born 15 November 1942) is an Argentine-born pianist and conductor.