Life is IMMENSE

Pity us
By the sea
On the sands
So briefly

I am beginning a new project with the new year, something I like doing very much. This is to be a DVD of the poet Samuel Menashe who lives in NYC. Bloodaxe Books is publishing a collected this year 2009 and the DVD will accompany the book. I am calling it Life is Immense which is a line from one from his poems. I have hours of video from visits made to his abode in Manhattan last September and from this material I will try my best to create a kind of visit to see him in his surrounding reciting poems from his heart and talking. The time spent with him was like being in the presence. Time out of time, very focussed and he was projecting as if he was talking to the future, beaming himself... Very special. I was awed and very honoured.
I feel his presence here as I work and I thank him for his generosity. It is blessed work this. A way to contribute to a time which needs wisdom and peace and a slowing down in order to listen.