Urthona  Back Issue

Rumi and the Path of Love
Issue (1
8)
released April 2003

Rumi's school of love:
Poet and broadcaster Raficq Abdulla, 
MBE, invites us to enroll in Rumi's
school of love

The face of Shakespeare's lover?
We explore a recently discovered painting that 
might be of Shakespeare's lover

 

Robert Bly: new Rumi poem
'The Twelve Lies' in a new version 
by Robert Bly

Buddhism's Path of Love:
Is there a path of love in Buddhism? Padmakara asks: 
"How do we square our passionate romantic longing 
with the Buddha's goal of universal love?"

Pablo Neruda: poet of love
Poet Simon Millward introduces his generous, celebratory verse

 Love in Handel:
Taravajra witnesses a revival of Handel's late
oratorio Theodora, permeated by a love
based on ethical awareness.

 

Bells as ritual objects:
Australian Sue Thompson on bells as ritual objects and some modern artists
who have used them in their work.

Tibetan play:
Stories from Tibet (via Sydney). Jan Cornall tells
how she transformed the life-story of Tenzing Tsewang
into an extraordinary stage play.

Beginner's guide: contemporary poetry
In the first of a new series of
introductory articles, Linda France presents a beginner's guide to contemporary poetry

20 Great Voices
Urthona readers on twenty of the
greatest voices of modern times