ROGUES & RAVENS
songs of love and death
The Two Ravens
Jock o' Hazeldene
The Trees They Do Grow High
The Demon Lover
Molly Bawn
She Moved Through The Fair
The Three Ravens
(December 2011)
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Famine, Fire and Sword - tales of terror from vanished voices (spoken word - 2012)
What is the purpose of the arts in an age of global ecological crisis? This booklet presents an audacious vision for the arts that holds together commitment to artistic integrity and craft with responsiveness to the challenges of our time. Foremost among those challenges are the strained relationship between human beings and the ecosystem we inhabit, and the vital need to elicit sympathy for that which is not ourselves. A clarion call to everyone working in the arts today who wants their efforts to make a difference.
£2.50 ISBN 987-1-906900-07-6
Fire Springs (Awen Publications, 2008) www.awenpublications.co.uk
An Ecobardic Manifesto (co-author), 2008
The Last Wolf
Under this cliff was killed
the last wolf in
Cut down by scythe and spear
wielded with brute skill
by soil-skinned villagers,
reaping long sown fear.
Breathless, baying for blood,
harrow-eyed, they
hounded her, caught between
rock and stream – last
of her kin. Dread grey-haired
predator of flock
and herd, fat with unborn
cubs conceived too late
to take their mother’s place
in legend, she fell
beneath their flailing sticks
and stones, bones broken
in a harvest of hate.
Wild wanderer of wood
and hill, the echo of
her death cry they could
not kill. It fills the sullen
trees with terror still.
Copyright © David Metcalfe
A version of this poem is published in Writing the Land, Awen Publications, 2003
Song, music and spoken word CDs by David Metcalfe
Written word publications solelyor jointly authored by David Metcalfe
ROGUES & RAVENS
songs of love
and death