AUTHOR NOTES

GLASS RAIN—the poetry of Margaret Roxby

“THE VISION” is included this week for World Never Give Up Day, August 18. The “undiscovered land” is a recurring theme in the author’s work.

REFRACTIONS—a travel memory by Kathleen Roxby

“AN AUGUST DAY IN THE FALKLANDS” describes the author’s visit to the island and her encounter with penguins and cormorants during their nesting cycle. It is included this week for the United Kingdom’s Falklands Day, August 14.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS—the poetry of Kathleen Roxby

“CYCLONE RACER” is best read aloud and is included this week for National Roller Coasters Day, August 16.  The poem was a concrete poem in its original form, with each “scream” displayed in a downward slant, and the word “yes” rising up on the left to “again and” and sliding down from there on the right to the next “again” creating a hill like image. The title comes from the name of a long popular, dual track wooden roller coaster running out over the ocean shoreline of the author’s hometown in an area known as Nu-Pike or just The Pike.