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Joanne Maria McNally

Edina

  • 1 Crossroads of Hell | Translations: de
  • 2 Freedom of Mind in Rosa | Translations: de
  • 3 Rosa in Montefiorino* | Translations: de
  • 4 The Phoenix
  • 5 Germany in November
  • 6 Edina
  • 7 Let it be!
  • 8 Abandoned to the Hawks
  • 9 Drowned by a Tear
  • 10 Eternity
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Edina

Edina, Scotia’s darling seat!
Hailed Burns in staunchly reverence
To claim, and claim, and claim again
Old Scotland’s rightful existence
Through idiom in verse and song
A nation born of hallowed tongue

Edina, braw bairn no more bow!
Formed of twin volcanic brow
With rugged seat and belly fired
Solidified, then edified
With castle crown
With nature’s fertile gown

Edina, Muse on stately dome
Friend to strangers, to bards a home
Formed of curving seams and nodules
Stratified with values social
Crowned with crags of steadfast lives
With writers lost whose fame survives

Edina, willows stroke your feet
Whisper glories, defy defeat
Clothe the deep gorge of old Nor’ Loch
Border scarred times of Castle Rock
Still visible ’neath works of men
And coverings of peaks and glen

Edina, buoyed by Arthur’s strength
Commanding awe and natural sense
Scanning waters of the North
Surveying isles amidst the Forth
Girded by mighty span of steel
Enriched by strands of commonweal*

Edina, with sovereign power reclaimed
Fairness, good faith impart your name
Embrace a multitude of views
Imbue your bairns with love of truth
Edina, arise from your bowed state
Dawn beckons your righteousness, your grace!

                                                              19 July, 2007


* commonweal – common welfare, public good

From: XChanges
Grimsby: Abel Publishing, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-9559423-1-0
Audio production: Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, 2003

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Joanne Maria McNally

* 02.02.1964, United Kingdom

Joanne Maria McNally was born in the UK.

Since graduating from King's College London (1987), Joanne Maria McNally has spent extended periods of time in Berlin. Much of her poetry, fiction and historical work has been inspired by her association with the city and with Germany, as f. e. her poetic novella Hell Unlimited. Where Shakespeare met Goethe. The topic of her PhD (part published as a book in 2000) equally displays her relationship with Germany and its cultural history and investigates linguistic and cultural play.

She has initiated and developed a series of creative and intercultural projects, including a 'Century of German Cabaret' with the Academy of Arts Berlin (2001). Joanne has subsequently developed the idea for a 'Cabaret Forum' (an arts-based foundation bringing together poets, musicians, painters and satirists with a performance, educational and 'master class' focus).

Joanne Maria McNally took part in the European Voices Festival (Berlin, Nov 2008)

Publications
  • Creative Misbehaviour

    The Use of German Kabarett within Advanced Foreign Language Learning Classrooms

    Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang, 2000

  • Hundert Jahre Kabarett

    Co-edited with Peter Sprengel

    Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2003

  • Bones of War

    Long Poem

    2004

  • Hell Unlimited.Where Shakespeare met Goethe

    Play (with agents and theatres).

    Abel Publishing, 2006

  • XChanges

    Poems

    Grimsby: Abel Publishing, 2008

  • Hell Unlimited. Where Shakespeare met Goethe

    Poetic Novella

    Abel Publishing, 2008

  • A Villanelle for Gaza

    with paintings by Claude Marchat. 'Médaillons'. Part of series 'Richesses du Livre Pauvre'

    Gallimard, 2009

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