strange attractor website

Strange Attractor is a term that refers to a system in chaotic motion.

Access points to the site are:

 Stevie Smith poet, 1902 -1971: a biography, essays and information on her work by Anne Bryan Charles Darwin scientist 1809 -1882: a short biography and essays on evolution by Anne Bryan
Anne Bryan: a biography and essays on science, poetry and religion. Chris Torrance poet : biography, poetry and list of publications.
Or go to the  individual pages listed below.                  


The poet Stevie Smith  - her life and work by Anne Bryan
 

Stevie Smith homepage a introduction to Stevie and guide to the other pages
Biography - an brief account of Stevie's life and work
Stevie Smith's Suburb - Palmers Green, North London.
Stevie’s connections  in the literary scene

Explorations of Stevie's poetry:
'The Jungle Husband': a trek into the jungle with an animation by Xavier Gale -Sides
'Frog Prince': a dip into a deceptively simple poem.
Stevie's religious poems: her doubtful disavowal of Christianity and questions to God
Childe Rolandine'  considered with Robert Browning's 'Childe Rolande to the Dark Tower Came'

Accounts of events at which Stevie Smith's work has been performed :
The Stevie Smith Centenary Festival  in Palmers Green in 2002
An Evening with Stevie Smith: a reading to celebrate Stevie's life and work in Cardiff in 2003 
'A Turn Outside': an adaptation of a radio play by Stevie Smith, set to music by Simon Rowland Jones and performed at the North Norfolk Music Festival in 2005 and at the Wigmore Hall London in November 2007.
Stevie and music - other musical adaptations of Stevie's work
Stevie's Blue plaque: the Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, unveils a blue plaque at Stevie Smith's house in Palmers Green, London and reads Stevie's poems.

Links to other Stevie Smith sites

 

 


 Darwin and evolution -

A short biography of Darwin  by Anne Bryan:

 Prose on Darwin
‘A Simple Guide to Evolution - a short history of ideas on evolution
Evolution and Religion a discussion of the impact of evolution on religion
'Space with Wordsworth'  and essay exploring the idea that science is hostile to poetry
'
Unsung by Singers'  this essay considers  the physicist Richard Feynman’s lament that few people write poetry  inspired by our present picture of the universe
A Flash of Golden Fire considers the love of nature with reference to a poem by Coleridge, travel writing by the explorer Mungo Park and a sci-fi novel by Philip K Dick..
 

 Links page connects to other relevant sites.

 


Anne Bryan's personal  pages

Autobiography

Tidal Haiku illustrated by Hilary Griffiths


The Poet Chris Torrance

A biography, new poem

Copyright
The copyright of the poems, prose, images and animation on this web site  are the property of the authors. Stevie Smith's work is reproduced here by kind permission of the Estate of James MacGibbon. Stevie Smith's works, or any part of them, may not be downloaded, reprinted, or reproduced in any other form without the permission of the Estate of James MacGibbon who may be contacted at jxj@jamesxjames.co.uk

You may  print any poems or prose by Anne Bryan or Chris Torrance for your own use or to pass on to a friend, but please don't copy any texts or images into assignments, magazines, newsletters or web sites without permission or acknowledgement.  Ask for permission by E mail  
 

This site is a member of WebRing. To browse visit here

WebRing links you to Cylch Llen Cymru, a ring of literature sites which have a Welsh connection.

This site is managed by Anne Bryan; if you have any enquires, comments or corrections send an e mail