Author’s Notes

GLASS RAIN—the poetry by Margaret Roxby

The poem “The Uncontained“ in part inspired the title of Margaret Roxby’s first chapbook Glass Rain, Golden Rain published in 1990 and was the poem first published in The Swordsman Review, 1967. In a letter to Discovery/The Nation, she wrote, “these poems express for me the exhilaration and frustration of designing poetry. The design, for me arises from the happenstance of life and nature when the imagery provided by the unexplainable workings of the creative forces blends the emotional experience with some event or physical phenomenon. Confronted with the mysteries of the universe and the human condition, the poet becomes a kaleidoscope in which the patterns bring a small bit of order out of the seeming chaos of the indefinable…I have striven to…make ‘the sound seem an echo to the sense.’’

KALEIDOSCOPE—a series by Kathleen Roxby

“A CATCH OF CHANGELINGS” by Kathleen Roxby. The title of this piece comes from a poem by Margaret Roxby (appearing on this site later this month).

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS—the poetry of Kathleen Roxby

“THE POET AND THE NIGHT” was first published in Voce Pena, 2000. The “D.S” was a fellow poet and friend of the author’s. After Kathleen shared the poem with this friend, she told Katheen that Debussy was her favorite composer, something unknown to the author before that moment.