Sunday, November 20, 2022

A Man of Heart. The story of Vortigern and the end of Roman Britain.

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  Precisely between their God and the Devil, heaven and hell, white and black, the man of heart walks through. (Joseph Campbell, The Masks ...
Sunday, November 6, 2022

How to get rid of your dragon!

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No, you don't call in some sword wielding killer, or grab your weapons, call out the boys and march off hoping for glory or death....
Monday, October 17, 2022

Writing Poems. Poets and their Processes.

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The Editors at Long Poem Magazine invited me to contribute to their 'Poets and their processes' series. There's a critical myth...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

Review, The letters of Basil Bunting, OuP

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  My Review of The Letters of Basil Bunting, selected and edited by Alex Niven, is now up on the Brazen Head. You can read it by clicking on...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Publication; Chapter eight of the story of Vortigern.

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  A QUEEN IN THE WILDERNESS.  Chapter eight of my story of Vortigern, is online at the Brazen head. https://brazen-head.org/2022/09/27/a-que...
Sunday, September 25, 2022

Porius by John Cowper Powys.

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  Rereading this, I'm struck by how successful Powys was in creating a fictional world set in the past. A small corner of what is now Wa...
Monday, August 29, 2022

Robert Graves, Poetic Unreason and reading The Tempest.

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This began as a contemplation of John Kerrigan’s “Shakespeare’s Originality’ (2018) and my intention was to compare Kerrigan’s chapter on Th...