Hafiz of Shiraz was one of the very greatest Persian poets. The poetry of Hafiz is erotic yet spiritual, both sensual and symbolic, full of images of wine and the tavern, of the Beloved, of nightingales and roses. Bardic Press is proud to announce a new edition of Richard Le Gallienne's moving and poetic translations of Hafiz.

New Nightingale, New Rose

Literature & Fiction

Hafiz of Shiraz

Poetry

Bardic Press

Though few translations have had as much impact as Edward Fitzgerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, anyone who wishes to truly appreciate Omar Khayyám needs to read more than one translation. This volume contains Edward Fitzgerald's classic translation with all its variations, Justin McCarthy's elegant and mystical literal translation and Richard Le Gallienne's sharp and poetic version. For the first time the reader can appreciate the range of Omar Khayyám and his interpreters in a single volume.

The Quatrains of Omar Khayyam: Three translations of the Rubaiyat

Khayyām, Omar

History & Criticism

And through the days,  the night's storm still within me,  whipping up the flames of the passions which will 						not cease licking me,  the surge of my blood aflood in my veins  and my instincts at large without any reins,  I am as a bull that blinded with bleeding  hurls its confusion, its darkness, its murder  at the enclosure.    Whilst in a sea unseen the nets of angels flung  like golden flags of sunlight  waver in the wind and dredge  the night from my soul.    from the moon from her mouth the night from my soul    A.M. Ashford Brown was born in Wiltshire in 1953 and attended Marlborough College. He has won poetry competitions in England,  has appeared on  national and regional BBC radio and has recorded audiobooks. He has also written an autobiographical novel, Hedges, Ditches and Dreams.    Cover painting by Tatyana Holodnova.

Songs of Sorrow and Joy

Ashford-Brown, Alastair

Discovered in Egypt in 1945 as part of the Nag Hammadi Library, the Gospel of Thomas was long considered irrelevant to the study of Jesus' teachings. Stevan Davies' influential The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Wisdom overturned this view, and enabled the Gospel of Thomas to be taken seriously as a source for the earliest Christianity. This Bardic Press edition brings a classic work of accessible scholarshp back into print. A entirely new forty page introduction discusses recent developments in scholarship, looks at Thomas' independence from the New Testament gospels, discusses the role of Mary Magdalene in the Gospel Thomas, and offers a variety of valuable insights. A fascinating additional essay speculates that Thomas may have been used as an oracle text in a similar way to the I Ching.

The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Wisdom

Davies Ph.D., Assistant Professor Stevan L.

Religion & Spirituality

The Four Branches of the Mabinogi: Celtic Myth and Medieval Reality

Parker, Will

In 1924, at the age of eleven, Fritz Peters first met Gurdjieff, the great master who introduced the West to the teachings of the Fourth Way. This hardcover volume brings together all three of Peters' books on Gurdjieff for the first time. Boyhood with Gurdjieff covers Fritz Peters' time as a young troublemaker at Gurdjieff's Institute in Fontainbleau, France. Gurdjieff's unconventional yet strangely logical behavior made him the only adult who made sense to Fritz Peters. In a series of brilliantly told anecdotes, Peters relates Gurdjieff's impromptu and surprising responses to the day-to-day problems of the Institute. In Gurdjieff Remembered, Peters describes his adult encounters with Gurdjieff from 1932 to 1947. As an adult, Peters is more circumspect about Gurdjieff, but Gurdjieff still makes a huge impression on him as a man who lives in the present, heedless of the opinions of others. Peters' third and final book about Gurdjieff, the rare Balanced Man, which has never before been published in the USA, looks back at the previous two books, and to the future of Gurdjieff's teaching.

Boyhood With Gurdjieff; Gurdjieff Remembered; Balanced Man

Fritz Peters

New Age & Spirituality

Born in Russia in 1878, P. D. Ouspensky was one of the major esoteric thinkers of the twentieth century. Ouspensky had already travelled widely searching for esoteric knowledge, and was an expert on occult literature and the fourth dimension when he met G. I. Gurdjieff in 1915. The methods and ideas, both psychological and cosmological, that Gurdjieff gave Ouspensky exceeded anything he had previously encountered. Although he subsequently parted from Gurdjieff, Ouspensky never ceased to practise and teach the ideas of the system. Ouspensky's books In Search of the Miraculous, The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution, and The Fourth Way are still the finest introductions to the Fourth Way. Don't Forget follows Ouspensky's outer life as the revolutions and wars of the first half of the twentieth century force him from Russia to Constantinople to Paris, London and New York, in parallel with the development of his inner life and thought. Bob Hunter's biography is the fullest and most detailed available, and contains previously unpublished material on the final phase of Ouspensky's life. Bob Hunter is the author of several books on the Fourth Way teachings, including The True Myth: Beryl Pogson's Teaching on Gurdjieff's All and Everything, Rogue Elephant: Transforming negative Emotions and A Pupil's Postscript: Beryl Pogson Teaching the Fourth Way. With a foreword by Andrew Phillip Smith, author of The Gospel of Thomas: A New Version Based On the Inner Meaning, The Gospel of Philip: Annotated &amp; Explained, and The Lost Sayings of Jesus: Annotated &amp; Explained.

Don't Forget: P.D. Ouspensky's Life of Self-remembering

Hunter, Bob

Biographies & Memoirs

Jesus (Peace be upon him) and the disciples with him passed by the carcase of a dog. The disciples said, "What a stench this dog makes!" Then he (Blessing and peace be upon him!) said, "How white are its teeth!" A man said to Jesus, son of Mary (Blessing and peace be upon him!), "Give me some advice." He replied, "Consider where your bread comes from." The Messiah (God bless him and grant him peace!) said, "The world is a bridge, so pass over it and do not inhabit it. Stories and sayings of Jesus are found throughout the Muslim tradition, in the Qur'an, in the writings of the Sufis and in the works of the great Islamic philosophers. James Robson's classic collection of these shows us the Islamic version of Jesus, a humble wanderer who was willing to learn from anyone, and who passed on his understanding to his disciples using pithy aphorisms and teaching situations. James Robson was Professor of Arabic at Glasgow university. Andrew Phillip Smith (foreword) is the author of The Lost Sayings of Jesus: Annotated &amp; Explained, The Gospel of Philip: Annotated &amp; Explained, and The Gospel of Thomas: A New Version Based On the Inner Meaning.

Christ in Islam

History

Robson, Associate Professor of Chinese Religion James

World

The great fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz is noted for his mystical love poems. The poetry of Hafiz has reached new heights of popularity in the West, yet his poems have been translatred into European languages for over two hundred years. Hafiz is not a poet to be captured in a single translation. This modernised edition of McCarthy's elegant prose translation gives us a direct Hafiz, full of clear imagery and personal poetry.

The Door of the Beloved: Poems of Hafiz

Nikolai de Stjernvall was always close to his "dear father," G.I. Gurdjieff, but especially so during the few months between 1937 and 1938 when he served as his father's attendant and collected such rich experiences. As the only person who lived with Gurdjieff to ever write about him, Nikolai's account is invaluable for providing an intimate and human perspective of his subject unavailable elsewhere. Supplementing his memoirs are two texts by Elizaveta de Stjernvall, his mother, including her account of her trek with Gurdjieff 's entourage across the Caucasus evading the Russian Revolution, and Adele Kafian's account of caring for Katherine Mansfield at Gurdjieff 's Institute during her final days. Nikolai's frankness, Elizaveta's devotion, and Adele's compassion are all faithfully maintained in the translation of Paul Beekman Taylor, Nikolai's boyhood friend who also lived at the Prieuré in his youth.

My Dear Father Gurdjieff

De Stjernvall, Nikolai

Historical

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