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Inspired Ventures Ltd is the proprietor of eXtraverstanza.com Our mission is to bring together poets and calligraphers to make this unique and imaginative gift idea available to you. Chambers Dictionary defines Extravaganza as "an extravagant or eccentric musical, dramatic or literary production". eXtraverstanza.com provides you with the means to make your "literary production" as "extravagant or eccentric" as you wish... with poetic flair! POETS Your POEM COMPOSED will be created by a writer from our consortium of published poets. Each poet has particular ability in a style or for a subject. This enables us to commission your poem from the writer best suited to the task. ARTISTS We have gathered together a number of formally trained, creative calligraphers, all of whom are acknowledged to be working to the highest standards. They are headed by Satwinder Sehmi, a respected author on calligraphic works, who has taught and exhibited internationally. His work may be seen on permanent display at the British Library and has been appraised as "modern calligraphy as fine art". All commissions from eXtraverstanza are created under his guidance by the team at the long-established design studio, Alphabet Soup. This ensures your poetic present is produced to the standard of excellence to which all aspire. Despite these credentials, we understand perfectly that everything may not turn out exactly as you'd hoped. If this is the case, you have only to let us know and we will do our utmost to put matters right. ******************************************************************** Acknowledgments Our thanks are due to: A.P. Watt Ltd on behalf of Michael Yeats for kind permission to reproduce "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" from "Selected Poems of W.B. Yeats" edited by A. Norman Jeffares, Macmillan, London, 1962. John Johnson Ltd on behalf of D.M. Thomas for kind permission to reproduce "I loved you, and perhaps I love you still," from "The Bronze Horseman: Selected Poems of Alexander Pushkin" translated and introduced by D.M. Thomas, Secker & Warburg, London, 1982. John Johnson Ltd on behalf of Jenny Joseph for kind permission to reproduce "Warning" and "The sun has burst the sky", both from "Selected Poems", Bloodaxe, 1992. The Society of Authors on behalf of the Estate of John Masefield for kind permission to reproduce "Sea Fever". ******************************************************************** Users must not reproduce, download, store in any medium, distribute or retransmit or manipulate any text contained in this website with the exception of material contained in the Order section of the site. Data Protection Act 1998. We do not make our lists available to any third party. Inspired Ventures Ltd is Registered in England and Wales, No. 3976103 Registered Office: Parkgate House, London NW1 0BG Copyright © Inspired Ventures Limited, 2002, 2003