Bøger af Martin Wells

A Bouquet of Memories is a collection of poems, the majority of which, were written between January 1970 and the end of 1974 during the last two years of my military service and the first two years of a civilian life that has taken me to many countries and a multitude of adventures. As a singer/songwriter I've been the legend that no one has heard of and for over forty years I've carried a hand written manuscript of these poems that went by the title of 'Don't Mock Poetry, It's Not Dead Yet'. I must have got sentimental in my old age and as my present girlfriend (I say girl loosely) typed them up I'm obliged to reward her, by publishing this collection under a more slushy title.

From the First World War to the present day, this book covers 100 years of conflict in verse, anecdotes and comments with a little humour here and there.

In the early hours of almost every morning during the Covid lockdown in the months of March and April 2021, these poems began mysteriously arriving - like persistent early morning visitors. Curiously, the authors wife was absent for the whole of this time, and much to her amusement, in her place lay an open notebook, a blank page and a pen. Soon nearly 40 poems filled the notebook - Martin never having written poetry in his life before. Although the pandemic provides the foreground for this collection of poems, they have also been prompted by timeless universal themes, symbolised in a snowdrop, a park bench or an olive tree; found in conversations about love and life and death, in news items and random images. But most of all arising out of that deep longing for union and freedom at the source of each of us. The poems are about what it means to be alive and deeply connected to the natural world. In so doing they go to the heart of mindful living and non-dual wisdom.

Intention is in tension - learning to take the stress out of performance

What if there is, fundamentally, nothing to change or fix in ourselves?

In the spirit of Lewis Thomas's Lives of a Cell or the many works of Stephen Jay Gould, zoologist Martin Wells takes us on a journey to explore the wonders of marine life.