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    Veiled Nightmares and Ethereal Dreams
    Veiled Nightmares and Ethereal Dreams
    Veiled Nightmares and Ethereal Dreams
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    Veiled Nightmares and Ethereal Dreams

    By Ian McGrath

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    This collection of poetry and prose is a unique exploration that skirts along the questions of how the spiritual and non-spiritual collide in the semi-conscious and our dreams, and how our dreams can affect us in daily life.

    Veiled Nightmares & Ethereal Dreams offers a sometimes sombre look at some of the darker emotions and the times when our dreams shape us and our nightmares threaten to overcome us.

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    “Veiled Nightmares & Ethereal Dreams is at once intense, lyrical and honest. I recommend you dive into these pages to explore its turbulent depths and experience its glimmers of light.”

    – Ali Harwood

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBeaten Track Publishing
    Release dateMay 20, 2022
    ISBN9781786455192
    Veiled Nightmares and Ethereal Dreams
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    Ian McGrath

    Ian McGrath is a long-time poet and author of Veiled Nightmares & Ethereal Dreams, which is a unique exploration of how the spiritual and non-spiritual collide in the semi-conscious and our dreams, and how our dreams can affect us in daily life. It is his first published anthology, but hopefully not his last; Ian has over a thousand ‘finished’ poems and this is hopefully but a taste of what he can do. He hopes to follow this sombre look at some of the darker range of emotions with a more mystical and love themed anthology titled Crystal Hearts & Glass Souls. With over a decade writing and performing poetry in and around Widnes and Liverpool, Ian is a hidden gem who has only recently decided to share his work with the world. Ian is also an experienced fire and circus performer, specialising in staff and double contact staff. A drummer in high school who has switched to guitar, Ian favours a melodic style of rhyming poetry.

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      Veiled Nightmares and Ethereal Dreams - Ian McGrath

      Prologue

      I have been writing poetry for over a decade now; I spend a lot of time writing it, though not as much as I’d like these days. When I think about those first poems I wrote and the work I had to put into each one to get them to say what I wanted in the right way, it puts the whole journey into perspective. I had advice from two close friends to me, two brothers who had completely opposing opinions on how to approach the task of writing a poem. One brother (the older) thought that you should agonise over every syllable and go back through it countless times until it has that flowing water kind of feel. The younger brother felt that you should not go over the poetry and edit it, as the process is a way of working through your troubles; he believed that each place where it stuck or didn’t flow right was a point where you were working through something, and the lack of flow in a poem shows the lack of harmony or unity in the emotions or problems you were working through and processing. I think that the poems where you don’t finish or quite get them down as an accurate translation of what you wanted to say are what leads the problems to clear so that the next poem you write flows and is finished easily, accurately reflecting your thoughts and needing very little in the way of editing.

      I like the metaphor of seeing it as a flowing river, and the places where it sticks are like the rocks the river must flow through or over. I often turn to poetry when I am troubled or have problems, also when I am happy, drunk, manic, depressed, tired. Sometimes I write none for a while and then write several all at once; but what does it all mean to me, and where has it got me? As I write this now, I think it has probably been one of the greatest things I have discovered on my journey, a way of externalising internal problems and turning negatives into positives. The translation along my arm through either pen or keyboard, while not exact, helps to translate my thoughts into a more usable form. I often these days, need to make only very small changes to the poems that I write, although at times when I am struggling the most, my flow can sometimes be off by the most. Then again, sometimes I do my best work and flow most easily when I have a big life problem to deal with.

      I like to see poetry as an imprint of a moment, but whereas a photograph or picture captures the look of a place that you visited or the age and smile of the person in that picture. I see poetry as an imprint or fingerprint of a moment in the mind: it is a way of storing emotion and feelings so that you can come back to it later and remember how you felt or where you were that day and where your life was. Each of these poems is important to me and each of these categories is a subject I have explored throughout my journey as a poet. I hope through sharing them that those who read them will gain something from the sharing of my experience and my journey. I have written perhaps a thousand or more finished and edited pieces throughout my time; some work, some don’t. Some I like one day and ignore the next, but I like to go back to them anyway and to think about the state of mind I was in when it was written and what it means for me in the present moment or what it tells me of my path going

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