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Title: I Threw a Stone
Subtitle: A Collection of Poems
Author: Oscar Sparrow
Narrator: Oscar Sparrow
Format: Unabridged
Length: 44 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-30-14
Publisher: Gallo-Romano Media
Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry
Publisher's Summary:
A collection of poems from the front-line of urban life, the cabs of lorries, and the bluebell woods of mortality.
Oscar Sparrow was born in 1949 as the sonic boom of jets and babies began to draw a new world map of umbilical vapour trails. He was brought up on cod liver oil and National Health orange juice. As the colour red leached its way out of the map of the British Empire, Oscar attended a die-hard Church school designed to create noble savages to serve what was left of the savage Nobles.
The Eleven Plus exam revealed that he could not even count to 11 and he became a mechanic, labourer, truck driver, boxer, and poet. He read Wordsworth and Ford Cortina manuals in a lorry cab near both Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Eventually, he found himself in London where he joined the Metropolitan Police. Car chases and riots followed but he did not take it personally. He spent his spare time touring the Art galleries, singing Piaf, and learning French and Italian. Eventually, The Authorities fell for the con and gave him a desk job in the Art department of Interpol London at Scotland Yard. Throughout all this time he was a would-be poet, short story writer and novelist.
To Oscar, poetry is the spoken word, so it was natural to produce an audiobook of these poems, read by the author.
Members Reviews:
And Exceptional Poetic Experience - the Magic of Words
Anyone reading Oscar Sparrow's poems will be moved in two ways: by how it is written and how it is told. For this book comes with the audio (author reading), a wonderful experience!
A confession is in order: though I don't think of myself as a poet, I'm basically a fiction writer (and an economist), I have always loved poetry and dabbled in it, mainly because I love words. Actually I'm sure we all do, if only we could link back again to that first moment in life, for most of us in our teens, when we suddenly discovered that words were magic: the way they sound, the meanings, both openly expressed and hidden, echoes to deeper levels of our unconscious and, ultimately, windows on beauty and harmony.
That's what Oscar Sparrow's poetry makes you re-discover. The magic of words. Yet, like all great poets, he stays close to you, he uses everyday words, everyday events. He just makes you see your daily world in a different way. He starts with a situation - an event, a landscape - you know intimately and he takes you by the hand to an upper level.
Consider this, an excerpt from a longer poem:
...The meadow-
Whose beauty is of bog mud
The oozing in boots,
Of grubby handed boyhood
sharings,
A criminality of penny bangers,
A wing swoop of owl,
In a moon frost of tiny sufferings."
It starts by being right down to earth - "bog mud", "The oozing in boots" - and anyone who's walked in a rain-drenched meadow will have experienced the feeling. Then, suddenly it soars: " a moon frost of tiny sufferings". And the rythm of the words he has chosen accompany you like music.
This is the kind of soaring that makes for exceptional poetry!
Expertly Wrought and a Joy To Read!
While reading Oscar Sparrow's book of poetry, "I Threw A Stone", I felt as if I had traveled into the inner workings of the author's mind - a vast, impatient, exquisitely inquisitive mind. Within, it seems any moment can be caught and brought to light, and by the act of being caught, turned into something palpable and permanent.