Dr Ian Inkster
Dr Ian Inkster Poems
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
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West Virginia, Trumpland (after John Denver)
Jobs are dying, West Virginia
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Annabel Lee, VERSE BY Edgar Allen Poe [ballad]
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
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Break My Chain (Anon England,1830s)
Sweet master, break my gallingchains,
And set your prisoner free;
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There's A Good Time Coming [1846, John Mackay]
THERE 's a good time coming, boys.
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The Cat Sat on the Mat
The cat sat on the mat, he fell asleep and had a dream about some cream and that was that.
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The fairly scary monster [with screechifying mandolin]
FAIRLY SCARY MONSTER by Ian Inkster
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Glides the Garden Snake
Slowly slowly very slowly creeps the garden snail
slowly slowly very slowly creeps the garden snail
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My Country, A Poem [Dorothea Mackellar 1918]_ A Melodic Treatment
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
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If by Rudyard kipling
If you can keep yr head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
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Selection from Oscar Wilde Ballad of Reading Goal.
At six o'clock we cleaned our cells,
At seven all was still,
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White Australia by Oodgeroo Noonuccal
From her collection: The Dawn Is At Hand
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Rudyard Kipling, A Song of the White Men [1899]
NOW, this is the cup the White Men drink
When they go to right a wrong,
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John Gillespie Magee, Jr. (1922 -1941)
High Flight [see separate note]
'Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
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Maya Angelou (1928 - 2014)
The free bird leaps on the back of the wind
and floats downstream till the current ends
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Annabel Lee, Edgar Allen Poe [ballad]
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
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Sir Walter Scott, Blackford Hill [from Marmion]
EARLY they took Dun-Edin's road,
And I could trace each step they trode:
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Abandon Me [lyrics by Lucy Ruth Rich Inkster 1994, music by Ian Inkster, 2016]
You can abandon ships, you can abandon cats, But you can't abandon me.
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She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
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Isabel met an enormous bear
Isabel, Isabel didn't care.
The bear was hungry, the bear was ravenous,
The bear's big mouth was cruel and cavernous.
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Dr Ian Inkster Biography
Brought up and lived in Warrington, Edinburgh, Khartoum, Lowestoft, Harlow, Edinburgh, Sydney, Nottingham, Kaohsiung, London. Professor of economic history, history, social studies of science, international studies and global history 1973 forwards. Teaching at undergraduate, graduate and post-doc levels with special reference to methodology, Japan, China and East Asia, Economic History, International Relations and Global History. Scholarly interests also include sociology, literature, anthropology and economic development. Have been a visiting professor in following - Visiting Positions (Selected) Senior Visiting Fellow, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA 1976; Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Developing Economies, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan 1979-80; Visiting Faculty Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan 1980; Visiting Fellow, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford University and St. Antony's College, Oxford University 1983-4; Visiting Scientist, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India 1987; Visiting Professor The Achievement Project, Oxford 1993-94; Visiting Professor Institute of European Studies, Nanhua University, Taiwan,1995-2002; Visiting Professor of Global History, Department of International Cultural Studies, ; Leverhulme Visiting Fellow to Global Economic History Network, LSE, London, January-March 2006; Visiting Professor, Wenzao Ursuline University of International Studies, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, November-December 2005 and thereafter from 2009 to 2014 as Full Professor. Editor since 2001 of established leading UK journal, History of Technology. Founder and Co-Editor 1998-2002 of Asian Journal of International Studies, (UK and Taiwan) , Reviews Editor, Social Studies of Science, London (1988-1992) : Editorial Board of Social Studies of Science, (UK,1987-2003, Reviews Editor 1988-92) Annals of Science (UK 1989-1999) , History of Technology (UK since 1990 forward) , East Asia (Germany and USA 1983 forward) , Science, Technology and Society (New Delhi and Paris 1996-2002) , Prometheus, (UK 1995 forward) , Reviews in History (electronic journal, IHR London) , ICON, Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology (elected at General Assembly, Mexico City, July 2001) , Transactions of the Newcomen Society (UK, from 2001) : Languages, Literary Studies and International Studies (Taiwan) from 2006. xxxxxxxx Other interests include journalistic writing and editorials, songwriting, music generally and fitness training. My songwriting, lyrical and poetic work embraces most varieties of music from children's to blues, ballads, pop, political, world. On Youtube and elsewhere you will find me under such key words as Roald Dahl, Japan, technology etc, and my google entries are many if only because my nmae is by no means a common one!)
The Best Poem Of Dr Ian Inkster
Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there; I did not die.[2]
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