Wild Soul

<p class=ql-align-center><strong><em>Harnessing winter's energy I drift</em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-center><strong><em>my free wild woman's soul</em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-center><strong><em>alight with day's deep desires.</em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-center><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong>An evocative soul-stirring poetry collection for adults by history-making theatre practitioner and Amazon best‑selling author of <em>Bare Spirit</em> Susan Marshall.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>In winter in Melbourne 2024 award-winning Susan Marshall set herself a challenge. Outdoors she attuned herself to the raw living energies of the season and fostered the artistic emergence and growth of the wild soul in poetry.</p><p><br></p><p>What resulted is Susan's magnificent collection of 31 poems: <em>Wild Soul: Contemporary Classical Winter Poetry</em> which is a tribute to her refined globally renown metaphysical artistry. She unleashes the soul's wild states of existence amidst: the dark fire fog grey light rain ice snow starkness storm stillness and silence of winter.</p><p><br></p><p>Susan fuses contemporary metaphysical poetry with the conventions of classical literary styles including: Romanticism (<em>Wild Woman Soul Winter Solstice's Secret Beats of Wander Wild Love Stoic Solitude Harboured Love</em> and <em>Kiss Me with Clear Sight</em>); Dark Romanticism (<em>Silent Flight Cold Frost Quieten My Heart Your Voice Hides Free Soul Hold onto My Fire Heart </em>and <em>A Shelter for the Soul</em> ); Gothic (<em>Dark Storm Melody Stirring her Storm Love's Wild Silhouette Tiny Soulful Dancer Wild Alive</em> and <em>Spirit of the Light</em>) and Steam Punk (<em>Lost Flame of Love)</em>. Susan allures us into the wild presence awakenings emotions journeys manifestations states and transformations of the soul with evocative soul stirring personas visual imagery and journeyed verses.</p><p><br></p><p>Also included in this collection are metaphysical winter poems that Susan has written to pay tribute to the city of Florence its people and its Renaissance history. In <em>O Sweet Florence Unearth My Soul</em> she acknowledges Florence's role in helping to awaken her own wild soul and its artistry. Her poem: <em>Wild Artist's Soul</em> acknowledges the significant historical emergence and growth of the Renaissance artist. Susan celebrates the soul's healing and renewal at the end of winter in her poem: <em>Rise of the Daffodil</em>. She has also written eight winter Sonnets (using Pertrarchan conventions) which detail her stunning metaphysical inspirations in both Florence and Australia.</p>