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Jay Ramsay is a British poet and psychotherapist.

He has been on the poetry scene over the last 25 years as a voice for transformative spiritual, political and psychological awareness. He has been described as “England's foremost transformation poet” (Caduceus magazine, 2007). He believes that poetry has a unique, catalytic role in our culture.

Jay has edited poetry for Kindred Spirit (1997-2004), Caduceus (2002-), and More to Life (2006). More recently he has been poet-in-residence at St James' Church, Piccadilly in London (2005-6).

Anamnesis is now available on CD (recorded with Tibetan bowls) from www.lotusfoundation.org.uk, the website also has the texts of the 16 poems, written monthly over the period.

More recently he has completed a residency in the Sinai desert for the Makhad Trust (March 2010) with a sequence of poems and photographs (see www.makhad.org) which will be published and exhibited, and also for the church at North Stoke near Bath (July-August 2010) for Martin Palmer at ICOREC/ARC. www.arcworld.org

Jay Ramsay has written many individual collections including Kingdom of the Edge (New & Selected Poems 1980-1998; Element Books, 1999), some classic Chinese translations Tao Te Ching, I Ching, Kuan Yin; Element, 1993/HarperCollins, 1995), and two acclaimed prose books about alchemy (1997 and 2005), he has also edited four anthologies of New British Poetry: Angels of Fire - an anthology of radical poetry, commissioned by Andrew Motion (Chatto & Windus, 1986), Transformation - the poetry of spiritual consciousness (RGP, 1988), Earth Ascending - an anthology of living poetry, 55 Contemporary British Poets (Stride, 1997), and Into the Further Reaches - an anthology of Contemporary British Poetry celebrating the spiritual journey (64 poets: PS Avalon, 2007).

His latest collections are Out of Time, Poems 1998-2008 (PSAvalon), The Poet in You (O Books) and Places of Truth (Awen).

Poems by Jay Ramsay

	After Rumi
	By Loch Arrow
	I saw a great light come down over London
	In the Aber Valley
	In the End: The Beginning
	Traveller: stop a moment (from Anamnesis)
	For the Children (from In the Unknown)

Recommended Books

	Kingdom of the Edge: Poems for the Spirit, by Jay Ramsay Amazon.com
	Out of Time, by Jay Ramsay Amazon.com
	Places of Truth: Journeys into Sacred Wilderness, by Jay Ramsay Amazon.com
	The Poet in You, by Jay Ramsay Amazon.com
	Transmissions, by Jay Ramsay Amazon.com

Related Links:

	Interview with Jay Ramsay http://www.rimbaud.org.uk/interviewsramsay.html A good, thought-provoking interview with Jay Ramsay.
	Many Leaves... Jay Ramsay - poems http://many-leaves.blogspot.com/2011/03/jay-ramsay-poems.html A sampling of more poems by Jay Ramsay
	Jay Ramsay http://www.jayramsay.co.uk Jay Ramsay's official website, focusing on his poetry, psychotherapy, and healing work. Several samples of his poems. A complete list of all his published books. And more information on his workshops.

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