Books

	The Perennial Poetry (2011) Andrew Staniland’s The Perennial Poetry (2011) is a collection of contemporary English Romantic poetry written in classical metre. There are poems about spiritual experience, creativity, love and poetry itself. The subjects include contemporary films and paintings, Chartres cathedral and the war in Afghanistan, a trip to Tallinn and writing a themed poem for a poetry competition. There are odes and sonnets, including translations of French, Spanish, Italian and German sonnets.
	Two Story Poems Andrew Staniland’s Two Story Poems (2009) are original stories in classical verse. A Human Disguise is a spiritual comedy set in ancient India. A minor god takes on human form to hide from a demon who is chasing him. Compassion is a ghost story set in medieval Japan. A samurai gains a supernatural power that is too terrible for him to use.
	Poems (2007) Andrew Staniland’s Poems (2007) continues the style of his New Poems (2006) and Collected Poems (1982-2004). The poems are written in classical metre, in the romantic tradition of English poetry. They include Five Hymns (dedicated to five gods and goddesses representing different elements of contemporary culture and spirituality), Twelve Films By Eric Rohmer, An Older Actress (a narrative poem in alexandrine couplets about a French actress and her film career), William Blake And The Eighteenth Century New Age and Sonnetinas (a miscellaneous sequence of sonnet-like miniatures).
	New Poems (2006) The poems in Andrew Staniland’s New Poems (2006) are poems about contemporary spiritual experience, written in classical metre, in the romantic tradition of English poetry. They include a series of odes and a sequence of short poems which give the collection its title.
	The Beauty Of Psyche Andrew Staniland’s prose-poem novel The Beauty Of Psyche (2005) is a retelling of the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche as a novel about imagination. The characters are played by actors, against a backdrop of paintings, models and sets. The story at times becomes a series of paintings and sculptures in an exhibition. And the references to people, films, theatre and other myths may or may not be imaginary too. It is available on kindle from Amazon.
	The Weight Of Light Andrew Staniland’s prose-poem novel The Weight Of Light (2004) is a lyrical description of the inner life and spiritual practice of Delphine, a Frenchwoman living in London. It is set entirely in her apartment, like a camera recording the poetry of her daily life, her meditations and spiritual experiences. It is a “new spirituality” novel that is both literary and an honest description of a contemporary spiritual life.
	Collected Poems (1982-2004) The poems collected here, from 1982 to 2004, are in the romantic tradition of English poetry and are written, almost all, in classical metre. They explore contemporary spiritual and psychotherapeutic experience.
	Three Cine-Poems The three cine-poems collected here use classical blank verse and contemporary cinematic narrative techniques to tell their stories. White Russian (1995) is a lyrical description of a young Russian woman’s life in London. A Child Of God (1996) is a comic study of a New Age guru and his small band of devotees. A European Master (1997) is a debate about contemporary aesthetic values between a French actress and an East European film director.
	Four Plays The Temple Of The Goddess (1992) is a verse tragedy set in pre-classical Greece. A matriarchal bronze age state is invaded by a patriarchal iron age army. The Playwright (1993) is a drama about resurgent nationalism in post-communist Eastern Europe. Mornings In The Life Of A Theatre Critic (1993) is a London theatre comedy. The Valley Of Stones (1994) is a tragedy of survival and defiance in a refugee camp.
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