The Horse and the Girl

Based on her travels on horseback, Madeleine F White invites us to look beyond the road she rides on and beyond the page she writes, into the beating heart of our natural world and the relationships it contains, including that with herself. ''The Horse And The Girl'' is not about a horse and his middle-aged rider, rather it''s about discovering what lies at the heart of their blended existence.

The Horse And The Girl is a series of 30 linked narrative poems, conversations between the ''Horse And The Girl,'' looking at issues such as relationships, climate change, growing older, life, death and change in general. It offers a wry, poignant look at the world around us, with a strong environmental slant.  Something between Conversations With God and The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, And The Horse - bestsellers both - these rhyming poems detail the imagined dialogues that occur between the main protagonist and the horse she rides.There is wisdom, there is profundity, and there''s a charming style to the works which - despite embracing themes of ageing, death, and the dangers that are palpably present to our environment - are lightly penned and seem to whinny, canter, and trot this way and that, carrying the reader on a journey that''s emotional as well as heartfelt. In all, it''s a sweetly affecting book, and very accessible to any reader.  About the Crossing Places Series: Life affirming, nurturing, mothering, the series challenges women and our allies to come together to express experiences of the feminine through shared values, ideas and stories. Starting with The Horse And The Girl and continuing With Maiden Mother Crone, this extraordinary series offers a path of hope, healing and ultimately self-expression. Culminating in Maiden, Mother, Crone: The Anthology, it invites all those who find themselves responding to the poetry in the first two books work to use their own verse to open up opportunities for growth and self-discovery.