Space cats, Joan Miró, poetry and mushrooms
Born in Edinburgh, Ruthven Todd spent most of his colourful life outwith Scotland: in London, the USA and Spain. He was an artist, a member of the surrealist school of art, amateur botanist and novelist, but is best known as a poet and writer of children’s books.
The Space Cats serie:
"Everyone goes to the moon in stories these days - why not a cat? So we have the ambitious young cat, Flyball, going off in a rocket and having extraordinary adventures. He is a delight in his space suit - a descendant perhaps of that famous adventurer Puss in Boots.
On the moon he becomes, of course, a super-cat, rescuing his master and finding surprising things in a cave. Children will love Flyball's story - grown-ups, reading it aloud, will see in it a slight take-off on the popular science-fiction thread."
From: https://www.goodreads.com/series/52775-space-cat
On the moon he becomes, of course, a super-cat, rescuing his master and finding surprising things in a cave. Children will love Flyball's story - grown-ups, reading it aloud, will see in it a slight take-off on the popular science-fiction thread."
From: https://www.goodreads.com/series/52775-space-cat
Ruthven Todd and Joan Miró:
Ruthven was a member of the surrealist school of art and that put him in contact with artists like Salvador Dali, Dylan Thomad and Joan Miró. With Miró, Ruthven worked on some poetry .
1) "A Poem For Joan Miro Plate III" (Cramer Books 14), 1947
2) "The glass tower for Jane Perry" (from "The Ruthven Todd Album"), 1947
3) For Joan Miro (Drawing with Ruthven Todd Poem)
2) "The glass tower for Jane Perry" (from "The Ruthven Todd Album"), 1947
3) For Joan Miro (Drawing with Ruthven Todd Poem)
More at: www.artsy.ne and www.annexgalleries.com
Taken from Ruthven Todd’s William Blake work.
The botanic:
The biography here: www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poets/ruthven-todd
