Poetry

Available Now

We Cast Pale Shadows

We Cast Pale Shadows

A collection of memorable poems by James Rainsford

Experience the diversity, and depth of this first collection of poems from James Rainsford. Infused with a unique vision and an understanding of the nuances and musicality of the English language, these intensely evocative poems illuminate the absurdities, contradictions and essentially comic nature of the human condition.

Ranging across an eclectic and varied subject matter they reflect the poets interest in all things which inform, shape and enhance the power of reason to improve humanities compassion and tolerance. Frequently comic and challenging, yet refreshingly accessible, these poems will live long in the memory and deepen your appreciation and understanding of lifes innumerable contradictions and possibilities.

Click on the titles below to read some of the poems featured in the collection:

We Cast Pale Shadows

Natural Disaster

Night in a Disco

The Women Who Amaze Me Most

Dartmouth

Limits

Flowers after the Funeral

On the Same Day

The Verb/Adverb Way to Start the Day

September Meeting

Lesson in Falling Over

Making Up

For a Friend Buried at Saint Mary’s Churchyard Hawkesbury

Please Put Down that Book

The End Begins

 

 

All content and material © James Rainsford 2011