BEHOLDER by Charlotte Fielden is Released

Prolific writer Charlotte Fielden (she of the Marly Mansion trilogy of detective novels) returns with her third book of poetry, 103 pages written over a four-year period beginning in 2011.

Fielden works in free verse, in which rhymes are jettisoned for a more modern palette of assonance and consonance with the occasional and whimsical near-rhyme. Designed to illuminate, explore and soothe rather than jar the reader to action, Fielden's approach is highly personal, like a watchmaker looking through a magnifying glass to view the miniature wonders that are all around if only we looked more closely and paid attention.

If Beholder has an overriding theme, it is about finding the spiritual and transcendent in the mundane things of everyday life, and letting the reader (the true Beholder?) bask and bathe in the sheer beauty Fielden is able to reveal. The subjects are love of family, relationships and friends, as well as the overwhelming beauty and power of nature. Her fans range from wellness coaches to vocalist Ian Gillan of the rock group Deep Purple.

It is often said that our fast-paced lives have reduced poetry to the backburner of literature, since no one has either the time or the attention span to languish in the sensuous look and sound of words. Picking up Beholder and reading a poem or two is enough to remind us of all that we have lost or neglected, and one leaves this book with a sense of ease and satisfaction, knowing that our thoughts, dreams and ambitions are shared by others with a similar sensibility.

Here is just one small example of her best work, the first nine lines from the poem:
LIGHT AND JOY ABOUNDING.

There is a point in the horizon of life
stretching to either side
beyond imagination and dreams
a place as small as an atom
as huge as the universe
where sun, moon, and stars
rise
and
set.

Author Biography: Charlotte Fielden is a Toronto-born novelist, playwright, actor and poet. She is also a retired therapist and a founding member of both the Writers' Union of Canada and the Playwrights' Guild of Canada. She studied with mine Marcel Marceau in the 1950s and was featured in the Stratford Festival of Canada. She has written for television, radio and film, and her short stories, articles and poetry have been included in various anthologies, literary reviews and news publications.
ISBN: 978-0-9880868-3-8

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