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By: John Ennis
Publisher: Book Hub Publishing
Published: May 2026
Pages: 200
Categories: Literature, Poetry
Language: English
Available as: Paperback
On sale at: amzn.to
ISBN-13: 9781739618971

Poems for Alina has at its heart a verse sequence that speaks of one personal experience of healing while in the hands of another human being, in this case professional healer Alina Mitas, naturalised Irish citizen from Russia, who presently lives in Mullingar with her partner Maircin. The poems are integrated into the overall movement structure of composer Gustav Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony (1895), whose music interprets the legacy of Healer Yeshua, who lived two thousand years ago. Poems for Alina is a critique of Christendom, or Post-Christendom, and where it has led, and leads people collectively and individually or not at all. The structure of the book, then, comes courtesy of Mahler: Allegro Maestoso, Andante Moderato, In ruhig fliessender Bewung, “Urlicht”, Im Tempo des Scherzos, where the verse moves to the moods of Mahler. The persona is used throughout. However ironic, or self-contradictory, the personae reflect Mahler’s own notes for his Resurrection: “with wings I have won for myself”. Ennis first visited Mahler’s Resurrection in his third book A Drink of Spring (1979), one long poem there interpreting each symphonic movement. Poems for Alina re-visits that quietist experience, but moving like a vortex now as it embraces a greater swathe of human kind, not least the fields full of folk round the author’s Chaucerian homescape.

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