Forty-Two for the Chosen Few - E-book - ePub

A Word from the author and a few reviewsSpecifically, for those who feel they are moving through solid air, this poetry book (Galactic 42) is a collection of dreams, visions, and thoughts. Each poem has a central theme relative to present times and past experiences. The number 42 is, in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, " calculated by an enormous supercomputer named Deep Thought, over a period of 7.5 million years. Unfortunately, no one knows what the question is? The poetry is light and boundless while others reach deep into the time-belt of darkly worlds.
The words are mere reflections of unseen tremors, but each should take what he or she feels they can digest. This is the first publication of the poetry book made available for distribution to the public. Notably Paul Brett of Sage has put music to the poem 'Amsterdam' and received critical acclaim in London's Record Collector. Paul Brett then added music to Shiloh's poem, 'The Four Winds of Jehoshaphat', The Ingrid Jonker tribute, 'The Sea sets free, A Womb Decree' achieved a Paris Sorbonne award, last seen hanging on the walls of the auditorium, while copies were flying out of Shakespeare and Company, Paris.
 Sadly, Ingrid Jonkers daughter, Simone has also passed away whom I knew very well, including my good friend Tom Rapp who initially did the foreword for the poetry book and my aborted novel 'Swimming with Salamanders' which will now finally see official release in the USA. We dedicate the poetry within this book to Tom Rapp whose life as a civil rights attorney amidst his poetical music history was always honourable and often sacrificing any financial reward.
We wish his son David, who is following in the footsteps of Tom, great success. Fred Glickstein (The Flock)I first heard of Shiloh when I read his article on our band 'The Flock' in the Californian Hippyland, magazine and was amazed at his insight and poetic description. Everybody has a dream to write a poetry book, but this poetry is zany, deeply, dark, and darkly truthful. The man is firstly a beat poet and secondly a rock historian, in my mind undiscovered, but I'm glad about that because he is my friend and sharpest critic.
Jimi Hendrix and John Mayall claimed our band was one of the best in the USA, now I'm saying Shiloh's poetry is some of the best I've ever read.  Paul Brett of Sage So captivated was I of Shiloh's stream of consciousness poetry that I put his poem 'Amsterdam' to music, and it was warmly received by the British music press and freely available on U tube.  As an ex-member of The Crazy world of Arthur Brown having paid my dues in Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, Fire, Tintern Abbey, and Roy Harper, if Shiloh's poetry had been around in the late sixties, we would have eaten off it gloriously.
   Tom Rapp (Pearls Before Swine) The work of artists, poets, songwriters is to process the reality around them. The events of their lives give them the unique work they create:  a different life makes for a different poem.  Shiloh Noone has had a fascinating and courageous life and he has done the work to process what he has lived into something that can touch all of us. John Hedley (Every Which Way)Having been the guitar teacher of Gordon Matthew Sumner (Sting) in his early years, I first met Shiloh in Portobello Road where he handed me his book on the history of rock and a paperback called 'The Witches of Sark' which I'm too scared to read.
Now I find myself being challenged by a poetry book, how strange?