Kenneth Steven

En fantastisk historia med underbara bilder! En bok där du hittar nya saker varje gång du läser den. När jorden svämmar över bygger den gamle Noah en gigantisk ark, där han tar ombord all världens djur. Men mitt ute på havet börjar båten att läcka vatten! Vad i all världen ska Noah ta sig till? En humoristisk och engagerande tolkning av den gamla folksagan om hur hunden egentligen fick sin blöta nos. Hur hunden fick sin blöta nos fick Norska kulturrådets pris för bästa bilderbok för barn när den gavs ut i Norge.

Sixth-century Ireland... Five-year-old Fian finds solace from a difficult home life by drawing shapes and patterns in the sand. The artistry he reveals in interpreting the beauties of nature takes him to Iona, where he will be the 'fourth hand' on the Book of Kells, that great treasure of the Celts. Greeted on arrival by the imposing Colum (Columba), Fian is gradually drawn into a community of laughter and stories, prayer and scholarship. But his formative experiences have left him vulnerable. In encountering blue-eyed Mara, a girl who bears a terrible secret, he recognizes another soul who lives with both desolation and joy. And as their friendship begins to deepen, Colum's rough-and-ready kindness leads the master to make an error of judgement that will have devastating consequences... This lyrical, timeless story, which unfolds amidst the elemental beauty of one of the holiest places on earth, is an exploration of doubt, faith - and the brokenness of spirit that finally releases us into love.

Iona has been Kenneth's spiritual home since his childhood. He even learned to walk on one of the island's beaches. He sometimes fears that there may be no more hidden corners to find, but there always are. His poetry collection Iona - first published in 2000 - remains one of his best-known books, although he is also a writer of novels, short stories and children's books. www.kennethsteven.co.uk

In this exciting and beautiful spiritual evocation of Iona, we find inspiring photography, brand new poems, tales recounting legends, local stories and Celtic passages from Adamnan – but there is much more to this wonderful book than a simple description of its elements can capture. It is a work of poetic, spiritual beauty. Evoking the intricacies of the island’s spiritual web, the book finds half-explored coves and caves, explores the names of certain seldom-visited glens and headlands and tells people who thought they knew everything about Iona things of which they had no knowledge.

It was by coracle that the early Celts made journeys on the sea roads of their time. A coracle is a tiny vessel, yet it is sufficient to carry one soul on a whole voyage. This collection of poems is about voyages, both real and figurative; journeys of many kinds. It is about facing danger and doubt with faith - against all the odds.

Då vatnet flommar over landet, bygger gamle Noah ei svær ark og tar om bord småkryp, husdyr og ville dyr av alle slag. Mens dei driv ute på havet skjer det forferdelege, båten spring lekk! Kva i all verda gjer ein då? Noah veit råd. Denne bildeboka er i tekst og bilde ei livlig gjenfortelling av den gamle fabelen om korleis hunden fekk snute.

Kenneth Steven's poems are inspired first and foremost by wildscape, by the places and people of Highland Perthshire and of the Celtic west - Iona and the Hebrides. But they are inspired by faith too, by the struggle to see God in the complexities of this world's turmoil and find light in the darkness. This is a completely new collection.

The Monk and the Mermaid is a story from the island of Iona in the Scottish Hebrides. On St Columba's Bay at the south end of the island, the beach where the monks first landed in their coracles from Ireland, you can still find the most beautiful green stones, polished by the sea.

Over the past 20 years, Kenneth Steven has become one of the country’s most popular poets. Drawing on a quiet Celtic spirituality and a love of wild Scotland, his engaging poetry offers us something beautiful, evocative, moving and captivating. In Island, Kenneth Steven has chosen over 100 poems, including some of his best and most loved poems along with a selection of new work.

An author and poet, welcomed for his reflective and thought-provoking style, retells 10 stories from different cultures - from around the world and through the ages - which each highlight the importance of taking care of the world. These stories - from ancient Greece, the Far East, the Celts, Africa, Greenland, Russia, China, Japan, South America and ancient Israel - afford wonderful opportunities for Jane Ray's paradisiacal paintings of trees and flowers, animals and birds... in short, all creation.

Ein av Skottlands største samtidslyrikarar for første gong på norsk. Det er landskapet og menneska i det nordre Skottland som er inspirasjonen for store delar av Kenneth Stevens forfattarskap, og i dikta speglar skiftande årstider, landskap og einskildmenneske kvarandre. Ofte speler det religiøse ei rolle, men det er det daglegdagse som er utgangspunktet for poetens avsløring av det spesielle. For første gong blir Kenneth Steven (f. 1968) utgjeven på norsk. I dette utvalet er det dikt frå dei fire samlingane Iona, Wild Horses, Columba og Salt and Light. Steven er frå Dunkeld i Perthshire i Skottland, og kjend som ein av Skottlands største lyrikarar.

In the summer of 2008, Kenneth Steven moved house and, in doing so, left behind his beloved little patch of garden. This small square of ground behind his home has for years provided a place of solitude, contemplation, observance and simple relaxation – a place for the mind to wander as the seasons pass. Kenneth Steven’s reflections, inspired by his garden, have been compiled into a collection of short, enlightening pieces full of wonder at the variety, beauty, determination and sheer audacity of nature in a confined space. Each of these deeply spiritual writings is accompanied by a poem, each complementing the other and making the known world new in this handsome hardback volume.

It is winter and snow is falling soft as petals. Woken by their mother, two young sea mice gaze at a sky sparkling with falling stars. These stars are pieces of magic, their uncle tells them, gifts to the sea mice to keep them safe through the harsh winter. And tonight, the mouse family must set out into the dark and the storms to collect the stars.

This new collection of lyrical and witty poems shows some of the surprise and excitement to be found in the natural world - both rural and urban. Even the familiar world of animals, seasons and seascapes is full of magic and mystery. The accessible poems are varied in style - from light-hearted to reflective. Children will enjoy reading these poems to themselves, and their teachers will appreciate the use of metaphor, rhythm and sound.