User:Elise Marianne

Elise Marianne ; born Lisa Marianne Stewart, is a UK poet and the founder and editor of International poetry magazine Decanto

Collaborations

Alongside her written collections, Marianne also produces poetry videos and her own musical compositions. Her poetry and visual work collaborations include; US band 'Liminal' and Rolo McGinty The Woodentops

Other video collaborations include; 'Noir' with photographer Steven Gelberg. 'Conceptus' - accepted by The South Bank Centre London - with Gregory Vincent St Thomasino - Poet and editor of Eratio.

Her work has been included in various magazines and anthologies both in the UK and Internationally. Her poetry collections include 'For All Eternity', 'The Last Lament', 'Paradise', 'Opium Valentines', 'Sacred Realm'. Her work has been widely reviewed both in the UK, and abroad. She has also been featured and interviewed in various magazines and ezines including; The Tower Journal USA, Sonnetto Poesia Canada, The Gloom Cupboard USA Book Seekers agency UK. Her relay interview about the poet 'Hilda Doolittle' was featured in Jacket 2009.

Personal life

Born in West Sussex, Marianne's interest in writing flourished with the wealth of history and famous writers that both resided in and visited her home town and surrounding areas along the South Coast England. Some of which include, the radical thinker and poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose earliest publications were first printed in Warwick Street Worthing. Edward John Trelawny; biographer, novelist, adventurer and friend of Shelley and Lord Byron. Trelawny, spending the later years of his life living in his cottage in Sompting. The list also includes English author, essayist, publisher, and writer Virginia Woolf who resided in Monks House Rodmell, near Lewes, East Sussex. Also, Oscar Wilde who holidayed in Worthing in 1893 and 1894, writing The Importance Of being Earnest during his second visit.

Marianne's writing style

Marianne's poetry has always been described as Romantic/Metaphysical, with visual imagery.

Following excerpts from testimonials and essays

‘The best way to describe Elise's poetic style is to compare it to the Pre-Raphaelites, who were a sort of bridge between the Romantics who preceded them and the Victorians who followed. The primary distinction between a poet like Christina Rosetti, as close a comparison I could find on such short notice, and Elise is that. Rosetti seldom wrote a poem that didn't rhyme and Elise seldom writes one that does. But the emphasis on sensuality through symbolism is evident in both’.

''Allen Taylor poetry Chapbook Reviews (USA)''

Elise's style is heart stirring, in the subtlest sense of this. As familiar as I am with Sappho and the fragments of her poetry in ancient Aeolic Greek I can tell you with assurance that Sappho's very spirit seems to suffuse and illuminate Elise's poetry... which I would never say about any other modern, 21st. century poet!

''Richard Vallance Poet and editor of Sonnetto Poesia (Canada)''

Excerpt essay by Poet/Musician Roland Bastien

Space and Time in Elise’s poetic art. Like in a dream, we no longer differentiate between past and present, and not even feel we are incarnate creatures, when we read Elise’s poems. Sometimes we have a glance of a post medieval abbeys surrounded by Giotto paintings and Gregorian chants. Philippe Sollers‘ book in French ”Vers le Paradis” profoundly illustrates the Elise universe. Other times, we simply float over timeless gas and star dust; there, we contemplate the power of the ascetic matters we become, and let tumble all our desires and attachments.

Excerpts;

Time is forgotten

In the radiant depths

''Uncertainty leads her mind. Submissively, she let the yore manage her sullied thought; even she feels uncomfortable with its cruel rules. Like it was a faith, she endures the reality until, by magic, her power rises- erected by her late desire.''

But your silent tongue

lingers like words unsung.

And am I lost to your world

''She begs for certainty, even though she already captured the radiant light in her prism. Absence of flesh, redemption of sin, such are the nature of her Judeo Christian torment.''

Render

me reckless

to the words of your

poet’s mouth.

Save me

from the throes

of my nocturnal

torment.

She searches for a power that can spurt the magic dew into her ears and let the strong orgasmic ‘feeling vibes’ into her flesh, from year to yore.

Disperse

their silenced hymns

to your yearning

depths.

Until

all sanctum of my

earthly plight

is sacrificed.

Until

all words

are yours.



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