Daybreak Press announces:
Through the Longing Daze
ISBN 0-9758840-1-8
Poems by Siobhan
(click here to hear Siobhan read)
Daze gets high praise from the critics at
Illinois Times!
Praise for Siobhan’s Poetry:
“These are poems that entice
the reader’s imagination. Siobhan’s verse reaches through everyday experience to
poetic comfort and inner-harmony. Fearlessly honest poems like ‘Conditioning the
Conditioner’, ‘Last Dance’, and ‘Ruined Silk’ probe what lies behind our idle
daydreams, while sensual poems like ‘Ritual in Oceanus Blue’ and ‘On the
Subtlety of Lust vs Desire’ reaffirm Siobhan Pitchford as one of the most
provocative erotic voices you’re apt to find.”
Dr.
Eugene Wiley
A scholar's view of
Daze: This essay graciously forwarded by Ethan Lewis, PhD, Assistant
Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Springfield.
Need a speaker? Poet? CQI consultant? Siobhan has a tremendous
track record as a motivational speaker, organizational consultant, and process
consultant. Her specialty is process consultation with emphasis in planning and
accountability.
Contact Siobhan: 217
529-9244 or by email siom1@hotmail.com
Scheduled Appearance:
Siobhan will be available at the Pitch-Black LLC/Daybreak Press
table throughout the day.
Recent Appearances:
Saturday, 26 August 2006
Bookfair@theSquare
Lincoln Square Shopping Center
Urbana, Illinois
9 July 2005 -- The Vachel Lindsay Home reading was a resounding success.
Our thanks to all who attended this packed-house event. Siobhan gave an
energetic, moving, and sometimes humorous presentation that drew plenty of
attention and applause from a heat-lulled crowd. She was joined in the reading
by David Pitchford, her co-author for the upcoming Dialogue project.
2 October 2004 -- Springfield's WQNA radio. Siobhan read from her
book and discussed the capitol area's poetry scene. One highlight of the
conversation surrounded Siobhan's talent for reading and someone's assertion
that Siobhan has "a voice for radio"; Siobhan's presentation is exemplary for a
dramatic reading style that remains 'in the zone' without pushing the limits,
she is very conscious of her audience at all times.
Especially sensual, and often sensuous, Siobhan's verse thrives on the tensions
inherent in loneliness, longing, and fulfillment - either through the life of
the mind or those moments of life in which our senses are filled with the
external to the extent to which loneliness is forgotten.
Although Siobhan Pitchford has written poetry for over twenty years, Through the
Longing Daze is her first book of poetry. As a mother, wife, and professional,
her observations on being a woman in 21st century America are especially
poignant.
Her poems are very personal yet hold a universal quality to which most of us can
relate.
Praise for Through the Longing Daze
“Few voices could illumine the daze of tangles emotions and experience as
dazzlingly as the voice that infuses Through the Longing Daze. Siobhan so
perceptively relates her own experience through these poems that one cannot help
but share in those experiences-or, in the case of the multitude of those readers
whose journeys parallel Siobhan’s, find the clear expression of their own
experience.”
Read more about Siobhan at
www.pwlf.com/siobhan.htm
To purchase your copy by mail, use this
online form or download and print the
PDF brochure.
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