Forty-Two for the Chosen Few

By Shiloh Noone

A Word from the author and a few reviews

Specifically, 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? 

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Shiloh Noone
• Release date: Apr 5, 2023
• ISBN: 9780639775142

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Forty-Two

for the

Chosen Few

SHILOH NOONE

First Edition

Text Copyright © 2023 Shiloh Noone

Typesetting: Colin Newman

All Rights Reserved

ISBN: 978-0-6397-7513-5

Foreword by Rabbi Moshe Emilmech

I have been asked to write a foreword about Shiloh Noone, which needs little introduction, if you have at least savoured some of his stories. At first, I refused, not actually knowing where to go with this. I am probably going to regret writing this foreword, but if you are looking for a puritan he is not, yet certainly has, if you are looking for an artist he is, but not quite, as for religion, definitely not, yet spiritually a strange undeniable link to some outer world and I’m not sure where.

What is a poet or for that matter a writer unless he has stories and whether they are true or false, as long as they are (tov me’od) good stories, but hold your horses on that one, we talking about a writer who lived with the late Arthur Lee in the playgrounds of Amsterdam in the early nineties, was invited to Leonard Cohen’s’ private birthday party, who single- handily wrote a comprehensive guide on seven genres of music achieving a Record Collector and Rolling Stone 4 star review. I was told this launch was to be the ‘Underground Trinity’, the poetry book being the third part to his ‘Rock book and ‘The Witches of Sark’.

There is another trinity, three sides to Shiloh, the happy go lucky hippy hopeful, secondly the fantasist, dreamer, and storyteller, the third, a gifted man from above that I have personally witnessed changing weather patterns by staying overnight in the Negev desert and shouting to the sky, praying over seized tractors that come to life and healing cancer.

They kicked him off the Kibbutz because of this but I kept contact. Five years later a gaunt 60 kg Shiloh appeared at my door having just come out of his 2-year prison ordeal in Jordan. (I locked up my daughters, and my wife nursed him back to health)

Four months later with a backpack, almost nothing in it other than a bible, he hit the road to who knows where. Since 1996 we had lost email contact, apart from my son who says he met him briefly five years ago at the ‘Shelter Hostel’ in Amsterdam, this is the best I can offer.

Just a word from Shiloh Noone

Specifically, 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.

Tom Rapp

(Front man for Pearls before Swine & Civil Rights Attorney)

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.

This is the biography that has shaped his art: Shiloh’s spotted journalistic career started back in 1977 when he composed poems with jagged innuendo against the present governing authorities.

Severely detained on several occasions by the South African Bureau of State Security, Shiloh pursued a causeway of passive poetry reaction until his escape into Lesotho on horseback, with an eventual sabbatical to Jerusalem.

A brief return to journalism by achieving second place in the Argus Poetry competition with an ode to Sperm Whales called ‘Heavens Last Beast’ brought him back into media appreciation.

During the eighties he freelanced for the ‘Jerusalem Post’ which led him through very traumatic ordeals, many described in this book.

In the mid-nineties Shiloh embarked on a massive task to write a summarized history on seven genres of music, an opus that achieved a four-star review by ‘Record Collector’ and later Rolling Stone Magazine. That book is now global and in the hands of many famed actors / musicians who have lent a word to this book)

Sadly, Shiloh’s next book, ‘The Witches of Sark’ was aborted as the timing was not right but did manage to add a few words to his forthcoming novel ‘Swimming with Salamanders’, which was also put on hold due to financial restraints.

My connection to Shiloh came when