wolves and isolation

red deadly animals by gordon grice  similair to and inspired by man is the prey by james clarke 1969 this book detailed animal -human attacks from lions in the siegfried and roy act to   rabid otters    and nibbing bugs    it seems strange that in many countries wild animals from  wolves to bears moose to cougar share the neighbourhood  and the newest asian cities have feral baboons and  insect swarms
interesting book  for someone living in a green and pleasant land


 the gathering  night by margaret elphinstone  set in mesolithic scotland   and avoids the cliches of other prehistoric novels, not quite Jean M Auel but readable and well researched by the author  however the plot was lacking in purpose and the prehistoric folk although well drawn were  mainly hunting  camping and fishing

the incas co written by the daughter of victor von hagen the author of the  highway of the sun  a 1950s book on the Inca road network this was much of the same   and looked at provinces  and adminstration rather than the Inca politics or religion  useful tour of the ruins across all four regions   from jungle to desert

from christ to coke  by martin kemp    how image becomes icon  an illustrated study  of  cultural icons brief articles  with bibliography  on themes of christ , lion,mona lisa  coke bottle , DNA  e=mc2  with more content on the modern than the ancient icons


having no native Uk wolves  i did however use wolves as an image in one of my poems
 the theme is being  old and dying alone in your own home

Wolves and isolation 
crying to the pity

The day of his death

Move out of sounds way 
Thin walls to the fortress and the moat

A mid coloured banner bends in the rain 
Dross frost of pin flowers
Ancient bleak of wheat

No body say doomsday




however comments seemed to have picked up on first line only- do readers get beyond the first lines of my poetry ?  this diatribe for example from a poetry forum i posted to    i see  the wolf as metaphor he sees wolves  only 

"I see when the wolf roamed free the world over; now giving up its empire to isolation. 
Whoever gave this six is sick. Have a grand tomorrow…Jack "


wrote again to simon armitage re his  grim up north pennine poetry walk   actually all emails go to his literacy agent  so no wonder  i never got reply  must think i am stalker  with  poetry submissions  so you will  ignored  if  you write to the author about their books and their agent is delegated to read it first   a common ego event as i have mentioned before that  some authors now have  their publicity team do all their facebook and twitter  for them