Marcus Cornelius
Writer / Poet (Balgowlah NSW)

Marcus M. Cornelius : writer, teacher, bookseller and one-time singer.

He graduated from Exeter University (UK), was awarded a Creative Writing Scholarship at Syracuse University (USA) and for seven years was a professor at Hokuriku University (Japan).  He has also published a fictional autobiography called Out of Nowhere - the musical life of Warne Marsh (available through i-Universe), and plans are in place to have all five parts of another of his works - “Note for Note” - published over the next two or three years. 

His other projects include writing what he calls ‘sopolyrimu’ or songs, poems and lyrics for music, with 3 Volumes completed so far.  Each Volume contains 100 ‘sopolyrimu’ and will all be published over the next two or three years. 

For more information please visit www.auroranovapublishing.net.  Marcus now divides his time between Australia, UK and USA, and writes full-time.

Artists and musicians wishing to collaborate, please contact Marcus below.

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About Sopolyrimu

Sopolyrimu are written as songs or to be accompanied by music, which gave rise to the word ‘sopolyrimu’ - an abbreviation of ‘songs, poems, lyrics for music’. They are inspired by the fragility of the human predicament, the struggle to maintain a meaningful integrity and lightness of spirit, the exquisite fineness of being alive, and the visions of the world (inner and outer) one is obliged to look at or be affected by.  Equally, the sopolyrimu arise from the search for love, the experience of love and the loss of love. They are addressed to you.

Looked at another way, they are celebrations of the joys and ugliness of the never ending stream of life in which we move, sometimes at a total loss, sometimes close to bliss, but always feeling something, if we allow ourselves to feel and ask questions of our feelings, and feel grateful.

When they are read perhaps little windows of understanding will let in some light that otherwise would not have challenged the night or enhanced the day. They are all love’s songs. The first CD - “Circles Never Closed” - contains a selection of 16 ‘sopolyrimu’ chosen from the three Volumes so far completed.

The intention is to find a composer who can create music for at least those 'sopolyrimu' that fit most happily in the song mode.  Inquiries are always welcome.