Now Available To Order: Nadja - The Complete Poems

2020 marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of the Marchesa Nadja Malacrida – or Louisa Green as she was born – and, while she probably wouldn’t still have been around today, her life would certainly have continued to be fascinating and enjoyable for many more years had she not been killed in a tragic car accident in 1934.

What better time, therefore, to gather all her published poems together in one single volume for the first time ever? These four original collections were all written over a century ago and have been practically unobtainable for many years without laying out a small fortune to a rare book dealer.

We have put them together here with a brief biography of the author, and a few photos and other bits and pieces, that we hope you will find of interest – and that Nadja herself would also approve of.

Annotated and illustrated with new a introduction & preface, author biography, appendices and 12 new photographs.

 

Mail order sales link:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1909643424

A Halloween Poem From Nadja

The Nadja Malacrida Society is currently putting a new book together which brings all of Nadja’s published poems together in one volume.

We noticed that, in the Evergreen Poems, she had some verses that she wrote on Halloween 1910, ie 90 years ago today, when she was 15 years old  – so we thought we’d share one with you here…

 

SHADOWS.

SHADOWS softly fleeting

 O'er the garden wall,

Making the great oak-tree

Wondrous grim and tall.

Nurse says the're no ghosts now.

But I know there are ;

Skimming round the chimney,

Now near and now far.

When I'm safely tucked up,

And nurse says good-night,

I do often wonder

Where they keep the light.

Shadows seem to wander

Round my little bed.

Drifting o'er the pillow

Where I lay my head.

Good-night, you old ghosts you

I ain't 'fraid of you,

'Cos you know my Nanny

Says you isn't true!

 

Nadja, October 31st, 1910

First published in the Evergreen: Poems,  Arthur L Humphreys (London, 1911)

86th Anniversary of Nadja's Death

Today marks the 86th anniversary of Nadja Malacrida's death in a car accident on the way home to London from a stay in Henley.  

Marchesa Louisa Nadia (Nadja) Malacrida (née Green), 1895-1934

You can hear Lucy talking about Nadja and reading some of her poems on our radio show on 103.2 Preston FM back in November 2014  HERE