Matters Darwinian
Why Darwin matters to Christians by Rev. Adrian Bailey, chaplain at the orthopedic hospital in Oswestry, is now published, there will be a launch in Shrewsbury next Friday 24 February.
Category Archives: books
Blue Scars
Blue Scars
We have just completed work on Blue Scars by Glenn Lee, a poetry collection from the South Wales valleys. ‘Blue Scars’ of the title refers to coloured scar tissue on the hands of miners caused by coal dust and the poems evoke the texture of life and work in the Welsh Valleys from the 1950s. They are frequently elegaic, sometimes regretful and always honest and moving. Many of them have been performed at meetings of the Anglo-Welsh poetry Society.
Glenn Lee is a Shropshire writer. The book is due for publication shortly. http://bluescarspoetry.co.uk
Craftsmanship and Art
Craftsmanship and Art
We have just completed work on Professor Philip Dark’s vast, 670-page anthropological work Craftsmanship and Art. It was left uncompleted when Professor Dark died some years ago. An extraordinary book. One of its strengths is that much of the research was conducted in the period 1955-1980, since when many of the practices it describes have been abandoned. The following from the index gives a brief glimpse of its breadth:
Ute Indians
basketry 320
currency of dessicated fingertips 440
Wodabe people
cicitrization 370
hair of women 411
pack oxen 294
stretching of children’s limbs 403
Professor Dark was a remarkable man, a hero of the wartime raid on St. Lazare. It was while in prison camp in Germany that he first became interested in anthropology.
We’re hoping the book will find a home in academic libraries in the Pacific region and the Americas. It deserves to be widely distributed.