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    Cats, Dogs and Feathered Gods
    Cats, Dogs and Feathered Gods
    Cats, Dogs and Feathered Gods
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    Cats, Dogs and Feathered Gods

    By K.V. Martins

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    Think poetry and history are boring? Think again. A collection of 48 poems about kelpies, Egyptian intrigue, witch hunters, Roman banquets and much more.

     

    Find yourself sailing on a Portuguese galleon bound for Lisbon, watch the ancient library of Alexandria burn, and discover who could be trusted in ancient Egypt. Go on a journey through the cloth markets of Constantinople, to Helen's Troy and the steppes of Mongolia. Along the way, meet Leonardo da Vinci, Rene Descartes, Charles Darwin, Albrecht Durer, as well as the cats, dogs, and feathered gods of the ancient world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAroona Group Press
    Release dateMar 27, 2022
    ISBN9780473560140
    Cats, Dogs and Feathered Gods
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    K.V. Martins

    K.V. Martins is originally from Sydney, Australia but now lives in New Zealand. Her work has been featured in various literary journals and she has won writing and poetry competitions. She has a B.A. (Hons) in History.

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      Cats, Dogs and Feathered Gods - K.V. Martins

      CATS, DOGS AND FEATHERED GODS

      A Poetic Journey Through History

      K.V. Martins

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      Aroona Group Press

      First published 2021 by Aroona Group Press

      Copyright © K.V. Martins 2021

      The moral rights of the author have been asserted.

      ISBN 978-0-473-56014-0 (e-pub)

      ISBN 978-0-473-56013-3 (paperback)

      This book is copyright. Except for the purpose of fair review, no part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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      Aroona Group Press

      Design/layout: Rui Helder

      Cover art: Jeroen op jacht, Tinus van Doorn, 1937 (Public Domain)

      CONTENTS

      Author’s preface

      Marco Polo on the Way to Xanadu

      The Five Tyrants of Gela

      Alone in an Etruscan Tomb

      A Roman Soldier in Constantine’s City

      The Lady of the Lines

      The Gourmand and the Flamingo

      Temple of the Feathered Serpent

      Not Everyone Could Be Trusted in Ancient Egypt

      Four Tales of Dogs and Their Collars

      Ailuromancy

      Witch Hunters

      Haiku

      On a Portuguese Galleon Bound for Lisbon

      How to Become a Medieval Knight

      Troy in Three Tales

      Haiku

      A Star Path to New Zealand

      Ryujin (reimagined)

      Samhain

      Instructions from Leonardo da Vinci on How to Paint Women

      Quetzalcoatl

      Great Khan and the Antelope

      Following Darwin’s Footsteps

      A Library Burns

      Albrecht Dürer and the Hare

      The Battle of the Hydaspes

      How to Be a Byzantine Empress with Three Husbands (and one scheming adopted son)

      Special Invitation to 69, 574 Assyrians

      What I Can Tell You About Fossilized Amber

      Tyrian Purple

      A Kelpie Tale

      The Nimrud Dogs

      Somewhere in the Sahara

      Rene Descartes as Remembered by his Maid

      In the Land of No Return

      Woman with Bound Feet

      Cave of Letters

      Notes of a Plague Doctor Coming Out of Retirement

      The Nebra Sun Disc & the Seven Sisters

      One Night with Bes

      The Funeral Procession

      The Colors of the Pilgrim World

      The Elizabethan Tailor and His Daughter

      LIST OF WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES USED FOR POEMS

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      FICTION BY K.V. MARTINS

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      Author’s preface

      I was fortunate to have a wonderful History teacher in high school – Mr. Thomas – who told his students stories of humankind’s accomplishments and failures, discoveries and losses. We heard incredible tales of resilience and survival in times and conditions we can only imagine today. History was not a bunch of meaningless dates we had to learn for exams – it was living, breathing, cyclical. With this student, at least, Mr. Thomas was successful in instilling a lifelong love of history. So great was this passion, I went on to university to study history for my undergraduate degree.

      As luck would have it, Mr. Thomas was also my English teacher and taught poetry. Through his lessons, I discovered poems can encourage us to see the familiar in new and surprising ways, or sometimes, poems are so ambiguous and puzzling they challenge our habitual thoughts and belief systems.

      I wrote poetry as a teenager – secretly – in notebooks, on scraps of paper, a few words smudged in pen on my palm. No doubt they were full of overwrought emotions and cringeworthy cliches, but I have continued scribbling over the years, and my poems have been published or won poetry competitions.

      Cats, Dogs and Feathered Gods is a collection of 48 poems that bring together many of my favorite historical topics – Bucephalus (Alexander the Great’s horse), Helen of Troy, Celtic folklore, food and fashion in ancient Rome, Portuguese navigation – to name a few.

      As

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