Beauty Under Dark – album 2025

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Composer and singer: Helen Chadwick
Piano: Kirsteen Davidson Kelly

Beauty Under Dark has lyrics by Rumi, Frances Bellerby, Denise Levertov, Anna Akhmatova,
Ramzy Baroud, Saadi Yousef, Wisława Szymborska, Hilda Doolittle (HD) and Helen Chadwick.

SONGS and AUTHORS  (publishing details are below)

1. Out Beyond Ideas
  Rumi tr. Coleman Barks and John Moyne

2. The First Known
   Frances Bellerby

3. The Fountain
  Denise Levertov

4. Laughter And Cooking  Helen Chadwick

5. The Door You Half Opened 
 Anna Akhmatova tr. Elaine Feinstein

6. This Is How It Feels To Be Home
  Ramzy Baround

7. Salt On Flowers
   Saadi Yousef
 tr. Khaled Mattawa

8. The End And The Beginning 
  Wisława Szymborska tr. Joanna Trzeciak

9. Hold Me
  Saadi Yousef
 tr. Khaled Mattawa

10. I Go Where I Love
  Hilda Doolittle (HD) 

11. At The Time Of Night Prayer  Rumi, tr. Robert Bly 

Recorded by Garry Boyle at Castlesound Studios and John Martindale at Blank Studios
Mixed by John Martindale at Blank Studios
Mastered by Denis Blackham at Skye Mastering
Image: Helen Chadwick
Design: Jeremy Williams

Text Credits:

1. Out Beyond Ideas
 by Rumi is translated from Persian by Coleman Barks and John Moyne, from The Essential Rumi, published by Harper Collins. Copyright © 1995 by Coleman Barks. Reprinted with the permission of Coleman Barks.

2. The First Known
 © Frances Bellerby is from The First Known  by Frances Bellerby published by Enitharmon Press 1975

3. The Fountain by Denise Levertov is from POEMS 1960-1967, copyright © 1961 by Denise Levertov. Used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

5. The Door You Half Opened
 ©  Anna Akhmatova translated by Elaine Feinstein is from Anna of All the Russias by Elaine Feinstein published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2005.

6. This Is How It Feels To Be Home © Ramzy Baroud is adapted from My Father Was A Freedom Fighter-Gaza’s Untold Story by Ramzy Baroud published by Pluto Press 2010.

8. The End And The Beginning is by Wisława Szymborska translated by Joanna Trzeciak from Miracle Fair Selected Poems of Wisława Szymborska published by Norton.

10. I Go Where I Love by Hilda Doolittle is from SELECTED POEMS, copyright © 1988 New Directions Publishing. By kind permission of Carcanet and New Directions Publishing Corp.

11. At The Time Of Night Prayer by Rumi, translated by Robert Bly, is from The Rumi Collection, An Anthology of Translations of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi. Edited by Kabir Helminski, published by Shambhala Publications.

Every effort has been made to contact the copyright holders of the works included.