New collection out:
'Ripening' presents Suttner as master craftsman who has skilled himself in the metier of turning biography into art. As a poet he believes that poetry lies all around in the trivialities of life and what is required is simply a poetic ear and an imaginative eye. As Amitav Ghosh wrote of Agha Shahid Ali, "he has a sorcerer's ability to transmute the mundane into magical".
(Moizur Rehman Khan, Co-Editor, Prosopisia Literary Journal)
'Ripening' presents Suttner as master craftsman who has skilled himself in the metier of turning biography into art. As a poet he believes that poetry lies all around in the trivialities of life and what is required is simply a poetic ear and an imaginative eye. As Amitav Ghosh wrote of Agha Shahid Ali, "he has a sorcerer's ability to transmute the mundane into magical".
(Moizur Rehman Khan, Co-Editor, Prosopisia Literary Journal)
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For friends in SA who would like a copy, RRP is R120.00. Book can be picked up from Dunkeld West, Joburg.
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In Australia book costs $25.00, including posting and packaging. Order via manosuttnerATgmailDOTcom, and make Paypal payment to same address.
For anwhere else in the world, including Israel, the UK, India and the US of A, cost is $30.00 including postage and packaging. Order via manosuttnerATgmailDOTcom, and make Paypal payment to same address. Book can be posted after payment received via Paypal.
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MORE REVIEWS
One piece in this collection speaks of keeping “one eye looking out and two eyes looking in.” That just about sums up these poems; the outer world is never lost while the inner is always doubly found. .... Ripening sings!
(Wayne-Daniel Berard, Editor, Windfall, a journal of spiritual poetry.)
I have always admired Immanuel’s writing. But nothing prepared me for the delights of his new collection, 'Ripening': the richness and wryness of the word play, the deeply poignant (yet never sentimental) play of emotions. The collection is aptly titled: Suttner's craft has ripened into maturity.
(Prof. David Medalie, Director of the Unit for Creative Writing at the University of Pretoria.)
Immanuel Suttner's poems overflow with humanity and feeling. But more than that — intimations of the metaphysical, history and identity, a sense of irony, playfulness. Reading them, I feel I am peering into the poet’s soul, and occasionally, tears well in my eyes.
(Mitchell James Kaplan, award winning author of novels By Fire, By Water, and The Unbounded Night.)
One piece in this collection speaks of keeping “one eye looking out and two eyes looking in.” That just about sums up these poems; the outer world is never lost while the inner is always doubly found. .... Ripening sings!
(Wayne-Daniel Berard, Editor, Windfall, a journal of spiritual poetry.)
I have always admired Immanuel’s writing. But nothing prepared me for the delights of his new collection, 'Ripening': the richness and wryness of the word play, the deeply poignant (yet never sentimental) play of emotions. The collection is aptly titled: Suttner's craft has ripened into maturity.
(Prof. David Medalie, Director of the Unit for Creative Writing at the University of Pretoria.)
Immanuel Suttner's poems overflow with humanity and feeling. But more than that — intimations of the metaphysical, history and identity, a sense of irony, playfulness. Reading them, I feel I am peering into the poet’s soul, and occasionally, tears well in my eyes.
(Mitchell James Kaplan, award winning author of novels By Fire, By Water, and The Unbounded Night.)
