My heart is too big for my pacemaker : a selection of writings

Description: This unique book is a collection of poems inspired in the silence and intimacy of the night-time and full of a subtle sensibility to matters of the human heart: Love and beauty, friendship and loss, kindness and mercy. Tastes aquired and refined by a lifetime's experience. Stripped of accoutrements - simple, direct and accessible. Shane Jagger was born in Hull in 1960 where, as a young man, he worked in the fish markets. He was drawn to poetry early in his life. Influenced by the work of Dylan Thomas, Christy Brown, Wilfred Owen, T S Eliott and Walter de la Mare he wrote a number of poems, but deciding that they were too self-centred, burned them and planted potatoes in their ashes. When he dug up the potatoes he boiled and served them with mint and butter and remembers them as the most delicious he had ever eaten. This collection of poems is especially inspired by the mystical poetry of Ibn 'Arabi and Jalal al-Din Rumi. Shane was introduced to their works whilst a student of the Beshara School at Chisholme House in Scotland. Looking for a quality in life that was more meaningful, he found it there. Stimulated by this enquiring environment and inspired by the clarity of the material he studied he remained at Chisholme House, becoming a cook and working in the kitchen there for twenty years. Shane discovered a greater beauty in his life. He began to write freely and to paint, giving away everything he produced. He says that when writing the words came easily as if writing for someone he loved. He believes that the inspiration came from something far beyond him. -- from publisher

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