Monday, July 10, 2023

Transformation, magic, the conception of Arthur, a digression.

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  At some point, things that people accepted as real pass into their stories, and survive only as ‘something that can happen in a   story’. ...
Thursday, June 29, 2023

What's great about Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur

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My attempt to explain why I admire Malory's book, and why I've been rereading it since the late 1970s, is published on The Brazen He...
Tuesday, June 27, 2023

The Conception of King Arthur. Transformation, magic, belief. 2/3

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What  is  the audience being asked to  believe when Uther becomes Gorlois?   The first Branch of the Mabinogion illustrates two types of cha...
Wednesday, June 14, 2023

The Conception of King Arthur. Transformation, magic and belief.1/3

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      The story of Arthur’s conception may have been Geoffrey of Monmouth’s invention. (See previous posts about how was King Arthur's f...
Monday, June 12, 2023

'Layamon's Last Interview': Publication in Long Poem magazine

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  'Laȝamon's last interview', published in issue Twenty Nine of Long Poem Magazine, will be the final chapter of the last book i...
Friday, May 5, 2023

Bonfire Books' Anthology of Australian Verse. Publication.

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 I have three poems in this Anthology of Australian Poetry, published by Bonfire Books.  One of them is this one.  The book is available fro...
Saturday, April 15, 2023

The winner of this year's national poetry competition (UK 2023).

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You can read the poem here.   https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/29/poem-of-beauty-wit-and-grace-about-fathers-and-sons-wins-nationa...