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Rita Zimnol
Is an authority on book illustrators and also a leading bookseller with a focus on the arts, including rare and avant-garde publications.
She specialises in creating and building up personal collections for individuals, libraries and other organisations.
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Alexander Davis
City of London Writer and Poet
He studied modern literature but spent a career documenting art books as an independent publisher.
In addition to the titles featured here he worked for ten years with Henry Moore, in order to produce the five volume Henry Moore Bibliography published by the sculptor's Foundation.
A variety of his books are held in the major collections of The Poetry Library, The Henry Moore Institute, The Crafts Council and Buckingham Palace .
Publications
Watch this space for a changing selection of new poems 2024-2025
All written since the publication of Cool Focus.
ZEN TIME
Enjoy the Zen of the everyday event
Interact with nature and time
People and places and all things sentient
Delight in daily routine
Comfort of pure cotton shirts
Breakfast eggs and morning newspapers
Walking in the city of tall buildings
Windows and everything that there is
Search for the sublime
Silent emotion within a silver ingot
Caress the surface of sweet rosewood
Experience transcendental awareness
Perfection of dharma circles
Wsidom of Zen Masters
A single flower in the Zen tea room
Small gardens of swept stones and rocks
Filled with vast rivers and distant mountains
Memories of moments and centuries
All trees are Buddha trees
Landscapes of calm minds
Morningtide Noontide Eventide Zen
Then it is time to start all over again
The Zen of now
Future Zen
Welcome each new season
First signs of spring
Autumn afternoon in Stockholm
Follow the Way
Do not ask why
Do not ask when
Zen time helps to cope with natural disasters
To deal with evil spirits called maras
There is sanctuary in tranquility
Oblique koans to question reality
Zen in the art of Zen
Free the mind
Clear of obvious thinking
Inner knowledge without obstruction
Calm meditation controlling your every action
Confidence and calm satisfaction
Of absolute perfection
Resulting from practice and application
Profound detached primordial mysticism
Think beyond Zen
Zen extends beyond words
Clarity of the Ultimate
Creative enlightenment
Beyond time and the cosmos
A Zen Master reached for the Moon
Long before Nasa
There are no limits to Zen
This poem is Zen
Zen makes Zen
EVERYDAY EVENTS
Most of us make history in quiet obscurity
We welcome each new day
Without wanting the Nobel Prize for glory
Few fly to New York to meet heads of states
Score centuries at Lords
Win millions of pounds in lotteries
Hold exhibitions at famous galleries
Existence instead is everyday events
Quietly raising a family
Enjoying a summer holiday
Catching a bus to Gamages
Few run a mile in four minutes
Or travel to the moon in rockets
We just need a few shillings in our pockets
A neat kitchen with electric sockets
Personal fame is gained by working steadily each day
By paying the rent come what may
Keeping to a calm routine
On that you can rely
Accommodating every changing season
Time to watch girls go by
Contentment is attained
By enjoying the zen of the everyday event.
Cool Focus
Poems by Alexander Davis
Cover Paintings from Modern Miniatures series by Rita Zimnol
By: Alexander Davis
88 pages - 2023 - £12
Art Makers
Poems by Alexander Davis
Cover image- Richard Allen from a photograph by William Davis
By: Alexander Davis
90 pages - 2023 - £12
Nostalgia for the Avant Garde
Poems by Alexander Davis
Cover photograph by William Davis
By: Alexander Davis
114 pages - 2022 - £12
Thinking Shapes
Poems by Alexander Davis
Illustrations by Rita Zimnol
By: Alexander Davis
108 pages - 2022 - £12
Nordic Zen
Poems that focus on Buddhist calm detachment and pure simplicity of Scandinavian design.
By: Alexander Davis
96 pages - 2021 - £12
Unreal City Blues
Poems in search of hidden reality and invisible memories.
By: Alexander Davis
90 pages - 2018 - £12
Sublime Time
Poems focusing on time and perfection in Art, Memory and Literature.
By: Alexander Davis
76 pages - 2018 - £12
Mirrorscapes
Intriguing poems about mirrors.. mirrors in art.. mirrors in literature.
By: Alexander Davis
65 pages - 2016 - £12
City Time
Poems which tell the history of the City, often in the voices of the streets and buildings themselves.
By: Alexander Davis
80 pages - 2016 - £12
Statue Time
Poems about Sculpture, Time and the fixation on Angels shared by poets and sculptors.
By: Alexander Davis
73 pages - 2015 - £12
Reviews of Alexander Davis's Poetry
The poems are thought provoking.
I really like the mixture of light and dark.
(Karen Jacobsen- Bond Books)
Very impressed by the poetry.
Very touched it is inspired by the works of makers.
(Aline Johnson Glass Design)
The poems conjure so many worlds
very visual..reflective..playful..cool
wonderful lyricism and detail.
(Felicity Napier- Poet/Artist)
The City of London Quartet of T.S Eliot Books
How Pleasant to Collect Mr Eliot!
By: Alexander Davis
19 pages - 2010 - £6
My Books are at Moorgate
By: Alexander Davis
74 pages - 2013 - £12
T.S Eliot Bookscapes
By: Alexander Davis
108 pages - 2014 - £12
T.S Eliot and Henry Moore: Poetry and Sculpture
By: Alexander Davis
136 pages - 2015 - £12
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