Selected Reviews of The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem in Brief to February 5, 2015
“Beautiful poem…an excellent piece of poetry.” —Nana Fredua-Agyeman, Ghana, Africa
“A great epic poem…” —Dr. Hans-George Ruprecht, Carleton University, Canada
“Bravo to the Poet for this toilsome but brilliant endeavour.”
—Umme Salma, International Islamic University, Bangladesh, in Transnational Literature, Australia
“A uniquely powerful work….” —Spirituality Today, UK
“…maybe it is poets and philosophers, rather than activists and politicians, who can ultimately help transform this world into something better.” —Mr. P. J. Morris, Amazon UK
“A masterpiece that will stand the test of time.” —Poetry Cornwall
The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem
“Don’t be intimidated by an epic poem. …in the most beautiful, mellifluous language.” —Miriam Knight, New Consciousness Review radio, Portland, Oregon
“Like being enfolded into a glorious, celestial, orchestral song… A worthy literary masterpiece… Amazing, wonderful book.” —Julie Clayton, New Consciousness Review
“Beautiful book.” —Dr. Catherine Al-Meten, The Examiner, Portland, Oregon
“…the poetry and language is rather beautiful. …it’s really very readable.” —Chris Hislop, Savage, London
“…a very important book for our time.” —Tina Benson, Amazon Review, California
“A contemporary classic! Highly recommended for reading.” —Nishat Haider, Lucknow University, India
“…fascinating juxtapositionings, and unique symbolism for our time.” —Dave Gordon, The Jewish Post and News of Winnipeg, Canada
“I found this book to be up to the standards set by Homer.” —LibraryThing
In Performance, on Stage, The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem, by Frederick Glaysher.
Like a story “around a campfire.” —From the Audience.
“Certainly wowed the crowd at the library with the performance [boldface added] and the words themselves.” —Thom Francis, Albany Poets News, New York.
Thirty years in the making, in late 2012, I finished and published The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem. Now after several public readings and as many reviews, my Kickstarter Project is to take it to humanity, in Performance, on Stage, at a Michigan theatre, in 2014. At approximately thirty minutes per chapter, I would read the first three chapters or “Books” of the epic, what has traditionally been called “in medias res,” in the midst of things, a flash-back device, with the action already in mid-stream on the moon.
In ancient Greece, the rhapsodes, reciters of epic poetry, an oral art, traveled throughout the Greek world, from city to city, reciting the tales of Homer and other epic poets. Nearly thirty-five years ago I had a theatre class in the interpretation of poetry that set me to dreaming of writing an epic poem and then traveling worldwide to recite it. Now I am ready, epic in hand, to commence that journey!
I believe that the imagination is at the core of all human endeavor, and that an imaginative vision of a New Global, Universal Vision of Life on this Planet can help inspire people to make it a reality. Together, from the moon, we can see it.
I need your help and support to bring the vision we all long for to the attention of humanity. I am painfully aware that I cannot do it alone. I could study and write alone for decades, needed to, but now I must turn to others to aid me in reaching an audience. I don’t have the financial resources to do it alone. I need $9,625 to take my epic poem to humankind! Please help, if you can…
Please share this Kickstarter Project with friends and family, blogs and elsewhere, the media, whatever you can do, and help get the word out about The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem, *in Performance, on Stage*.
I’m very grateful for your help. See you at the Performance! Journey to the moon!
Alas, my Kickstarter Project has failed to reach its funding goal. February 14, 2014
Lord Apollo does not approve of my plan. Seeking his will, I have already dispatched a retainer to the Shrine at Delphi. The oracle hath sent back, once again, this cryptic poem,
Today being the ancient Greek holiday of St. Valentine’s Day, I shall retire to a glade to sport with Amaryllis in the shade, but will mull over his riddle as best I can…
Amazon Review – Most Important Book Of Our Times. October 29, 2013.
“I believe Frederick Glaysher’s book, The Parliament of Poets, is one of the most important books of our times. In this grand sweeping epic, Glaysher has managed to live up to the task given to him by The Parliament of Poets. At a gathering on the moon of many of the most important poets of all time, Glaysher as the Persona is given the task of creating a new vision for humanity; one of Unity and Oneness of humankind. As he travels around the globe, throughout history, guided by the various poets and thinkers of days gone by, he has the vantage point of viewing humanity’s oneness from the overview perspective of the moon, synthesizing and integrating the great thinkers of all time. He has returned from these journeys to the moon and back with an epic poem that manages to fulfill the task given to him. He manages to create for the reader a tangible vision of our shared humanity, and makes an impassioned plea that we WAKE UP before we destroy ourselves and our one precious planet. His is an inspired epic that integrates the ancient wisdom teachings of the world’s greatest wisdom teachers and poets and breathlessly leaves the reader returned safely to Earth with a new vision and sense of responsibility towards our shared humanity. It is a very important book for our times and a MUST READ!!!!” —Amazon Review, also on Goodreads
“With his new book, THE PARLIAMENT OF POETS, Frederick GLAYSHER is in a creative dialog with the greatest epic poets of all time. He is bringing together in beautiful verse form, tending, as he writes ‘to the iambic pentameter, depending on thought and need’, diverse visions of humanity from all over the world. Frederick Glaysher’s poetic imagination is frequently casting them in the form of spatial and cosmic imagery. That is very exalting to the reader’s spirit. What is more, in reading his new book one is not only compassing, beyond the horizon of empirical facts, a borderless world, but one is also beholding the ‘oneness’ of humankind in a different light. • ‘The Parliament of Poets’ (Earthrise Press, 2012) by Frederick Glaysher is a pure joy; embodied in a literary work of fine verbal art it is contemporary ‘world literature’ at its best.” —Dr. Hans Ruprecht, CKCU Literary News, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. August 6, 2013 — a Radio CKCU/Literary News ‘encore‘
As a universal interfaith story, The Parliament of Poets tells the tale of a journey toward cosmos, Christian and spiritual unity, “Spiritual, Not Religious.” Continue reading →
As a universal interfaith story, The Parliament of Poets tells the tale of a journey toward cosmos, Christian and spiritual unity. “Spiritual, Not Religious.” Continue reading →
Apollo calls all the poets of the nations, ancient and modern, East and West, to assemble on the moon to consult on the meaning of modern life. The Parliament of Poets sends the main character, the Poet of the Moon, on a Journey to the seven continents to learn from all of the spiritual and […]
A series of two different performances and six lectures, reviving the storytelling role of the ancient Greek rhapsode, and evoking a new global, universal vision of life. Continue reading →
