Artworks published on Cyclamens and Swords

	Cyclamens and Swords Publishing
	PUBLISHING FINE POETRY, PROSE AND ART

http://www.cyclamensandswords.com/allessandro_actis_dec_2013.php

Cyclamens and Swords Publishing was founded in 2008 by Johnmichael Simon and Helen Bar-Lev. The name is taken from their illustrated book of poetry published by Ibbetson Street Press in 2007 the opening stanza of which appears below: 

  

"Life should be sunflowers and poetry
symphonies and four o’clock tea
instead it’s entangled
like necklaces in a drawer
when you reach in for cyclamens
you pull out swords"