Friday, December 29, 2023

Lost Realms by Thomas Williams puzzling over value: style

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  Lost Realms   by Thomas Williams (William Collins, 2022)  Warning: Opinionating in progress. Lost Realms   is a book with much to recommen...
Thursday, December 21, 2023

Review of A Man of Heart by Liam Guilar

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A Man of Heart  is reviewed in the December print edition of  Quadrant.  The text of the review is on line, you can read it by clicking on t...
Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Michael Alexander.

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  Sad News. I heard today that Michael Alexander died last month.  A translator of Old English, writer of one of the most judicious books on...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Review of Taliesin Origins by Dr. Gwilym Morris-Baird

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Wales can boast one of the finest literary traditions in the world and in the poetic tradition of Wales, Taliesin is a vital figure. There a...
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Review of David McCooey's 'The Book of Falling'

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  Three reasons why you should read David McCooey’s poetry. (This review originally appeared in The Brazen Head, September 2023) David McCoo...
Thursday, September 21, 2023

Culhwch and Olwen.

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  I have loved this story since I first read the Jones and Jones translation many decades ago. Now I'm working my way slowly through thi...
Friday, September 1, 2023

Jeremy Hooker, Diary of a stroke. Shearsman (2016)

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Jeremy Hooker, Diary of a stroke. Shearsman (2016)   Memory, narrative and identity.    Are your memories like the panel of a cartoon, that’...