Ten Fabled Landscapes - Poetry

I'd like to begin with a definition of Landscape which I once  read in Wikipedia: Landscape is the dynamic background to people’s lives.

Landscape is a loosely used concept  in this book of poetry and  photographs, but it is the interaction between people and their backgrounds that I refer  to.

A Landscape is a dynamic background to people's lives.  Landscape is a loosely used term in this book of poetry and photographs, but the quotation expresses my attraction for setting my poems in them. The book has also proved to be a personal experiment for me. I interfaced almost every poem with a black and white image. My hope is whatever the verses and the setting, they extend each other in a complementary way.  Some of them were part of the original inspiration for the writing of the poem next to it.  Some are my photos; others are from different photographers. Using black and white was a choice I made for several reasons. Still, Jason Pederson, an American professional photographer, has said it best: In black and white photography, there are more colours than colour photography because you can use your experience, knowledge and fantasy to put colours into black and white.

Diana Bell Brooks