HUGH LUPTON

Hugh and Chris Wood’s acclaimed poetic tribute to the life of a horse-man’s daughter

TALES OF WISDOM AND WONDER

The stories from Hugh�s book of the same name, includes Monkey and Misery, The Curing Fox, Pedlar of Swaffham, The Blind man and the Hunter, Fish in the Forest, The Shepherds Dream

Ovid�s darkly humorous and moving stories of transformation, told by Hugh and Daniel Morden.

Includes Arachne, Persephone, Echo & Narcissus, Midas, Semele, Tiresias, Erisychthon, Baucis & Philemon

Hugh & Daniel Morden's acclaimed retelling of Odysseus� journey home, the first and greatest adventure yarn of them all.

Anglo Saxon epic tale� three blood curdling encounters map the life of a Viking hero, accompanied by master percussionist.

Includes Gawain and the Green Knight, The Pardoner�s Tale, Fairy Ointment, Tam Lin, The King asleep under the hill, The Loathly Lady, Llyn y Fan Fach.

Limited edition CD, reworked recording of the celebrated radio 3 broadcast and a selection of festive songs and carols.

(featuring songs co-written with Hugh: Mari Lwyd & Bleary Winter on Ghosts, One in a Million & Bleary Winter on Lark Descending, and England in Ribbons on Trespasser)

Ghosts

The Lark Descending

Trespasser

To order these go direct to Chris Wood's website

http://www.englishacousticcollective.org.uk/shop/shop_main.html

Stories, voices and music from Southern Africa, Collected and told by Hugh & TUUP.

BRANWEN, DAUGHTER OF LLYR

Hugh tells and Helen sings the third branch of the Welsh epic the Mabinogion.

BOOKS

TALES OF WISDOM AND WONDER

Includes Monkey and Misery, The Curing Fox, Pedlar of Swaffham, The Blind man and the Hunter, Fish in the Forest, The Shepherds Dream

The greatest adventure story of them all, vividly retold by Hugh and Daniel Morden, beautifully illustrated by Christina Balit.

Stories and oral poetry from around the world (suitable for 10 +)

THE STORY TREE

Tales to read aloud (suitable for 3 - 6 yr olds)
You can order this book directly through www.barefoot-books.com

A NORFOLK SONGLINE

Book……………………………………………..�10
Book and CD……………………………………�15

An exploration of the layers in the landscape in story, poetry, song and photographs.

Five storytellers: Hugh, TUUP, Duncan Williamson, Joe Baele & Nina Naesheim, take to the green lanes of Norfolk.

Includes an hour-long interview with Duncan Williamson, photo gallery and a collection of audio recordings.

MARI - LWYD.

The Hodening Hoss, the Marbury Dun,
old Bone-face the deathless am I,
heavy with foal two thousand years,
bridled with sorrow,
saddled with fear,
I canter through pastures of tremble and quake,
I gallop the track between sleep and awake
seeking the deep of welcome
and stint for my tears.

Let me in!

The Mare-headed Queen, the Mari-Lwyd,
I was mother of all the herds.
ten thousand years my shining foals,
bridled with starlight,
saddled with gold,
leapt the divide between living and dead,
quickened the year with each toss of the head,
galloped the deep of beauty
and never grew old.

Let me in!

But Mother of God, the Mary Mild,
the pregnant Maiden came,
bursting with Jehovah seed
she entered my stable
and cried out her need.
With ropes I was dragged from the birthing straw,
aching with foal I was heaved to the door,
swapping warmth for bitter weather
and birth of a rival creed.

Let me in!

And now I am nightmare, I am rattling womb,
the Uffington wraith I�ve become,
forced into darkness you�ve made me a fiend,
bridled with shadow,
saddled with scream,
from window to window traversing the night,
my face in your glass in a shudder of light,
seeking that deep of welcome
befitting a Queen.

Let me in once again,
let me in!

In parts of South Wales the Mari-Lwyd (Grey Mare) is still carried from house to house between Christmas and Twelfth Night. She is a be-ribboned mare�s skull, and will only be let into the house if the company carrying her can outwit the inmates in a riddling contest. The legend behind the custom is that Mari-Lwyd was cast out of the Bethlehem stable into the cold night to make room for another Mary to give birth to a more prestigious child, ever since she has roamed the world searching for a place to give birth to her colt.

DERWEN

This oaken vault -
with spiralling psalms
and old constellations
of murmured prayer
and all the circling stations
of the years held high
in its timbered hold -
will fall open to sky

that once was acorn
dropped and sown
seven generations grown
until split and sawn
became table, cradle,
boat, bedstead, beam�
and, lifted high,
this wooden sky

that is a door shut tight
six hundred years
on the deep night,
and will one day, far
beyond our watch,
fall open and catch
the countless stars
in its splintered height

and remember then
the felled woods
before they fell
and how they stood,
and those beneath
who, looking up, beheld
the sky and all its lights
in bough, branch, leaf.

Derwen is the Welsh word for oak, it is also the root of the word �door�.

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Please ensure you list exactly what you want, and include your own address and contact phone-number in all orders.

Please address all orders to:
Hugh Lupton,
8 Church Terrace,
Aylsham,
Norfolk,
NR11 6EU,
UK.