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The Dreamer Wakes
Volume Four of RETROSPECTIVE VOYAGES by Trevor Maynard
1980 was a year when I started to write regularly and specifically, to seek out and capture my lucid dreams. I would place a pad beside my bed, close my eyes, pen in hand, and when the moment came, begin to write. In the morning I would then decipher my handwriting, revise and type up on my old Corona.
PARADOX
Love and hate are not opposites, they are a necessary co-existing reality, holding the psychological tension between life's inherent contradictions. The moment of birth is but a prelude to the inevitability of death. Words are caught in a poem, printed in linguistic marks, but, when voiced, are transient notes in the air; thoughts become both fleeting and permanent in memory; and into this paradox we, the human animal, climbs: object and subject entwined. Amid life, there is death. Darkness is nothing without light. Chaos is not chaos without space for harmony; and love is not fully love without embracing the hate that goes with it. Life is what it is: a paradox.
Trevor Maynard is a dyslexic, autistic artist, and this is his fourth poetry book.
Review:
"Trevor Maynard combines complicated thematic material and unites fractured images with a sure hand."
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PRESS RELEASE 12 Jan 2022
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Preface to Special Edition, 2022
First published in April 2020, at the height of the first Coronavirus Lockdown, Poems from the Lockdown was an immediate, visceral response to a sudden, and frightening global pandemic, that saw everyone face-masked, isolating, working from home or furloughed; humanity hunkered down for safety and protection. Over fifteen million died, billions more suffered physically, and especially mentally: Covid-19 ravaged our population.
Two and a half years on, vaccines were found, the virus mutated to be less lethal, and humanity returned to a new kind of normal, a post-pandemic realisation that, at any moment, something could end our world. In this fight for our lives, human kindness flourished, people cared, sacrificed, and appreciated each other more ? not universally it has to be said; power, manipulation, profiteering, and the baser instincts of humanity also took their advantage.
A new volume, Lockdown 2.022, was produced in September 2022 seeking to reflect on the newly emerging world, where are we now? Twelve poems from that volume have been added in a new chapter to the original volume; not to find closure on the pandemic, but more to define the era, in terms of global psychology and consciousness. Everything has changed: the Global Pandemic elicited a shared experience demonstrating humanity?s best efforts to care for its fellow humans in face of a global threat.
There are now ongoing public enquiries, the apportioning of responsibility (hopefully too much not blame), and accountability will be identified; an official history will be written: one of facts and figures, laws, actions and management; and lessons and contingencies developed for the future. Along this, I believe this special edition of Poems of the Lockdown, will convey the raw emotional and personal experiences; providing catharsis, love, and healing.
Latest Press Release Poems from the Lockdown Special Edition 11 Nov 22
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