Poetry you can taste... Bread and Purposes

by Barbara M. Lipple.

... To taste indecision is like eating the white

of a boiled egg - without salt or pepper           Delay

"Sometimes a poem will appeal to the ear, or eye. It is rare to be able to taste a poem."                          

                                                                     Wendy Duffy

I read Bread and Purposes straight away, from cover to cover. It has a freshness and wit and the rich personality of true poetry.                                        

                                                                      Professor James R. Lawler

"Barbara Lipple is a poet of pilgrimage. Bread and Purposes is book of poems which traces the contours of a heart set on the need to risk a journey into spiritual health and truth".    

                                                                         Wayne K'Noll

"Barbara Lipple's response to the world is heartfelt. It is exciting to read her work; her responses are powerful ... you can enjoy the freshness of a new way of looking at familiar subjects. This is strong writing, beautifully crafted, a confident structural use of rhythm and assonance and rhyme combined with a delightful playfulness of language."

                                                                           Sue Polites, Studio

and poetry to hear  ...                           

 Bread and Purposes Aloud (CD and cassette), recorded by 4 readers; includes one poem set to music by singer-songwriter Fay White. Produced by Erik Kowarski with musical interludes.

 "Reading poetry is one thing. Hearing it read is another. Read in the author's voice we pick up an inflection, a joy, a wonder which we quite often miss when just "seeing" the words. Listen to the colours in her brush:

The surprise of a million fireflies

 lights her eyes

 Charred trees standing,

resentment smouldering

 Rocks harsh in the sun

and hear the sound of silence:

                     a hillside quarried of its song

These poems are auditory. They are full of colour, full of movement. They sing."

   Jennifer Langley-Kemp, Poet, Society of Women Writers, (W.A)

Barbara, a member of SWW (WA), says “I have been writing poems since high school; my themes include nature, relationships, incidents in the Bible.” 

Some of Barbara's poems have been published in Studio, the Canberra Times and the Mozzie (alias Micropress Oz).

 My book costs $25.00, $28.00 posted. CD $20.00, cassette $12.00.

Email for payment details or orders to sundew@bigpond.net.au