Finally it is here. To be published on the 20th August 2025. The countdown is on.
I will have copies to sell very soon. Send your address to me via message or email. I will give you my BSB
– $ 20 plus postage and when Ring the Bells arrives I will send it immediately.
Email me taichi@bigpond.net.au
Writing this poetry over the past few years and compiling Ring the Bells has been my antidote to these times we live in
and I hope it is an antidote for you too.
Ring the Bells is a collection of new poetry
with an invitation to hear each poem
as a bell chime embracing light, dark, life and love – cyclic like the seasons.
In Ring the Bells, award-winning poet Colleen Keating
invites readers to listen closely —
to the chimes of joy,
the tolls of grief,
and the quiet notes of love
that echo through our shared human experience.
Moving through four sections —
Embracing Light,
Embracing Dark,
Embracing Life,
and Embracing Love — her poems ring with an acute awareness
of the world’s beauty and its brokenness.
From intimate moments in nature
to the great sweep of history and current events,
Keating’s lyrical voice finds hope, tenderness, and resilience
in the spaces where light filters through the cracks.
the temple bell stops –
but the sound keeps coming
out of the flowers
Basho (1644-94)
(trans by Robert Bly)
Piercingly beautiful. Each poem a chime
embracing light
embracing dark
embracing life
embracing love
from a poet with a vibrant and curious mind in love with life..
