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IAN EMBERSON: Books
Order direct from the author - ianemberson@aol.com - add 15% for
postage and packing.
Doodles in the
Margins of my Life
Fighting Cock Press 1981 £3
First collection of poems - illustrations on every page. Many song-settings based on this volume.
"Descriptive poems kindle a light in landscape we did not previously see,
and there are Hardyan lyrics that set the mind questing."
Brian Merrikin Hill, Pennine Platform.
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Swallows Return
Envoi 1986
Second collection - currently out of print.
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Three Brontë Poems
Angria 1993 £2
Published to coincide with a reading celebrating the centenary of the Brontë Society. Now out of print, but replaced by an expanded version - "Mourning Ring: Brontë related poems" - see further on.
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Pirouette of Earth: a novel in verse
University of Salzburg 1995 £7
Set in the year 1936 the story has three distinct plots, bringing in respectively
the start of the Spanish Civil War, the Jarrow Crusade and the abdication of
Edward VIII
The tale is told well, and with gentle objectivity... William
Oxley, Acumen.
The swift direct verse is just the thing - closer to the oral
telling of a story than prose can ever be. Ted Hughes - letter to the author.
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Natural Light
Fighting Cock Press 1998 £3
Third collection of poems -
illustrated throughout.
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The Comet of 1811
Angria 2001, £2
Like The Snake and the Star (see below) this is a collection of prose-poems. The printing was done in collaboration with Bryan Foster.
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The Snake and the Star
Angria 2003 £2
Like The Comet of 1811 this is a collection of prose-poems. The printing was done in collaboration with Bryan Foster.
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Messages from Distant Shores
Angria 2006, £2
A longish poem broken into sections evoking the changing moods of the shoreline.
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Yorkshire Lives and Landscapes
Sutton Publishing 2006, £12.99
Within a semi-autobiographical framework the book describes many aspects of Yorkshire culture: music, poetry, landscape painting, walking the Pennine Way and local history. Lavishly illustrated in both colour and black and white.
Snapshots of other people's lives . . . evoke strongly a sense of place and time - John Greenwood, Todmorden News
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"Ian Emberson has put his brand on it, and his voice speaks to you from every sentence, standing out like a trilby in a flock of cloth caps . . . "
Ian McMillan
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Mourning Ring: Brontė related poems
Angria 2008, £3
Collection of poems relating to the Brontės - their lives, writings and the landscapes associated with them. Lavishly illustrated by the author.
"Mourning Ring" is . . . a work of art in itself'
'M' - Brontë Blog
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For Pilgrims from Loneliness, an interpretation of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Villettee, see Brontës
In addition to the above, Ian Emberson has illustrated books by other authors:
- Ken Edward Smith: On Wilsden Hill
- Steve Sneyd: A Mile Beyond the Bus - More info
- Simon Fletcher: The Cherry Trees of Wyre - More info
- He has also provided the endpapers for In the Smoke of the Sagebrush - a novel by Magdalena Chávez; and Paul Sutherland's Seven Earth Odes.
- The cover for Paul James Boyle's CD of guitar music, Little Tunes from Long Ago makes use of his painting Circus.
Ian Emberson's articles range in subject-matter from William Blake to the making of holly wreaths.
He has however especially focused on the writings of the Brontë sisters; the poetry of Brian Merrikin Hill and the paintings of his friend Bohuslav Barlow
His poems, articles and illustrations have appeared in the following: Aabye, Acumen, Aireings, The Arcadian, Brontë Society Gazette, Brontë Society Transactions, Brontë Studies, Christian Poetry Review, The Countryman, The Dalesman, Dream Catcher, The Gaskell Society Newsletter, The Interpreter's House, Iota, Island, Konfluence, Links,
New Hope International, Pennine Ink, Pennine Platform, Poetry Salzburg Review, Poetry Scotland,
The Poet's Voice, Quantum Leap, Todmorden News and The Yorkshire Journal.
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