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Where is the love, beauty and truth we seek
But in our mind?
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
‘Julian and Maddalo’, 1824
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With a deep affinity for the English Romantic poets and their approach to nature, music, spirituality and ‘the beyondness of thought’, Christala Rosina’s verse strives to capture some faint echo from the fleeting images of truth and beauty around us.
Her first attempts to solicit the attention of editors placed her on the ‘Honours Lists’ of two international poetry competitions, and she was subsequently awarded First Prize in Quantum Leap’s 10th Open Poetry Competition.
Since then, her work has been continually featured in poetry magazines and anthologies, as well as on BBC Southern Counties Radio for National Poetry Day. She is a regular contributor to William Morris’s Lunar Tree Diary and is
one of the poets invited to contribute to Partners’ forthcoming anthology, Love Me Knots, a four-volume ‘journey into the nature of Love’.
Christala’s first collection of poetry was published by PublishAmerica in 2006.
A qualified teacher, and after many years as a college lecturer in A-level English and Psychology, Christala now teaches privately at a consultancy level.
This has finally allowed her the time to develop her singing and other talents in the performing arts.
Her flair for words and the stage showed themselves early; Christala wrote and directed her first play when she was only 11.
She now sings and performs with the English Arts Chorale and Imperial Opera, London and has considerably developed promotion for both the Chorale and Reigate Summer Music festival as Press/Media Officer.
She introduced poetry to the festival, producing and performing in two inaugural poetry-&-music events, one of which, The Poet & the Nightingale, was a celebration of the deep soul-link and enduring mutual admiration between poetry and music.
Christala now gives her own Poetry-Concerts, performing her poetry live while accompanied by the classical and Celtic harp.
The inspiring collaboration this produces between poet and harpist forms part of Christala's vision
for an exciting marriage between two kindred spirits of the arts: presentations of her poetry, both live and recorded,
against classical music arranged or composed especially to accompany it.
She is, above all, an artist herself in the fullest sense: ‘It is an expressiveness that seeps through life and transforms it.’
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Her ‘wondrous sensitivity overcomes time and circumstance and gives a grace to soul and spirit ... (Her poetry) reveals such wonder and light ...
beyond the time and reason of our human confinement ... Such vision offers hope and healing for our condition’
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David Bowes, Envoi Magazine
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