A lyrical and accessible collection that explores both the landscape of Michigan and the inner life of one person who lives there.In an approachable, intimate, and contemplative voice, Keith Taylor's poems offer quiet observation of the landscapes the poet encounters. His poems reflect a Romantic sensibility and a modern inventiveness as he travels from Michigan to Cape Hatteras to the Irish countryside and moves in reflection from uncritical observation to self-qu...

Enduring poems that distill hope from despair, love from sorrow, and courage from ambivalence.Winner: A Michigan Notable Book!In this spare and elegant collection, distinguished poet Keith Taylor demonstrates his finest power of observation, watching the natural and human world go by. What Can the Matter Be? considers aging and death—of the self, of animals, of the earth—as well as place, and how rootedness in place allows a sturdy vantage point fr...

THE ANCIENT MAGIC OF IRELAND LET LOOSE IN THE STRINGS OF A HARP….The wilderness of oak, ash, and thorn that men call the Forest of Andred existed long before the Saxons entered Britain, or Caesar's legions pressed against Kentish resistance, and even before the first iron-using Celts set foot on the island. Here lives the clan of mandrake—the strange, gnarled vegetable folk. Here trods the unicorn, with blue vapor curling softly from nostrils soft as a woman's breast and dainty, pr...

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A master of war and a mistress of magic—battling for rule of ancient Ireland!AN ISLAND AT WARTrue, they are a strange couple... Cena, noble Queen of the Danans, and Sixarms, savage chieftain of the Freths. Yet a match between them would unite the two tribes and end the fighting that bloodies the island that will someday be known as Ireland.Yet there are plenty among their peoples who oppose the union—and one who would stoop to treachery to prevent it—treachery and m...

The magic of ancient Ireland—enslaved in the bloody scourge of war!STOLEN MAGICAt last, the enchanted isle of Tirtangir is at peace. Sixarms, mighty chieftain of the Freths, has offered the cauldron of plenty to Cena, Queen of the Danans, so that she may feed her people—and secure the truce. Yet the treacherous foreign ruler, Prince Nemed, knows there is no profit in such peace...His solution: to steal the precious cauldron and gather his armies around Tirtangir, th...

FELIMID MAC FAL IS BACK . . . WITH THE BEAUTIFUL PIRATE GUDRUN BLACKHAIR AT HIS SIDE!I am called Felimid mac Fal. I am a bard of the old blood, a lesser degree of Druid. Where I come from, bards have been known to sing armies to defeat or victory and kings off their thrones or on to them. Descended from the faery folk, the Tuatha de Danann, my line's been poets and harpers in Erin since the world was new, and magic's in our heart-marrow.She is called Gudrun Blackhair . . . ...

BARD VIDicuil, the fiery archdruid who was a terror to northern Erin, had perished. The bard Felimid mac Fal had undone him. Although Dicuil’s protege and pupil, Sunspear, still lived and had sworn vengeance on Felimid, the bard did not fret greatly. He expected Sunspear’s own vanity and excess of ambition to bring him down, and ignored him for three years.Family matters, and his renewed bardic training, held his attention now, but to ignore Sunspear was a mistake. His avow...

A POET AND A PIRATE, THEY WERE THE DEADLIEST TEAM ON THE NORTHERN SEASHE IS FELIMID MAC FAL, once a bard of Ireland. Now he uses his wits and his magic in the service of his lover, the most notorious pirate on the seas of ancient Britain.SHE IS GUDRUN BLACKHAIR, the lusty, legendary pirate chieftain who commands the sorcerous ship "Ormungandr" and numbers the shape-shifting Children of Lir among her crew.Together they've sailed through adventure after adventure, and...

Some say that you are Fergus mac Buthi's grandson, come back from five years' wandering. They say that you are a bard of the third rank... They say that you carry the harp of Cairbre, which is among the Three Remaining Treasures of Erin... I think it is false.'When Felimid mac Fel returns to the land of his fathers, to the glorious shores of Erin, all is not as he left it. The Company of Bards is sullied by members who take advantage of their talents and spread disenchantment among...

What If the Big Bang Is Still Here? A New Theory of Ongoing Creation by Keith Taylor invites readers into a bold and thought-provoking exploration of the universe, time, and existence itself. Challenging the traditional idea of the Big Bang as a single event in the distant past, this compelling book introduces a revolutionary perspective: creation is still happening continuously in every moment around us.Blending personal reflection with accessible scientific inqui...

This is the tale of one Felimid mac Fal: vagabond, roustabout, poet—and magician! For Felimid is a poet of the old Irish blood: a fully trained bard of Erin. And his is the sort of poetry that can sing shy dryads out of their trees and dragons into slumber and juggle the fixed round of the seasons as a jester juggles knives.A man who saw the bard's pretty face and the harp on his back might think him a simple minstrel. That mistake could cost him his life.But a woman who sa...