Sunday, March 3, 2024

Review of Seven of the wildwood, Mary Youmans. Wiseblood books.

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This review first appeared in The Brazen Head, December 2023 Seren of the Wildwood   Marly Youmans. Wiseblood books. Illustrated. 72 pages....
Thursday, January 18, 2024

King's Champion. A Ballad of sorts.

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This Is the companion piece to 'Taking Possession'. (See previous Post) First published in The Rotary Dial. I had been reading Percy...
Sunday, January 7, 2024

Taking Possession. A story of the Norman Conquest.

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 This poem, the second experiment in telling a story in verse, aiming for a scrupulous meanness in the diction, was first published in The B...
Friday, January 5, 2024

The Buried Giant by Kazoo Ishiguro. Puzzling over value. Literary Allusions.

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The Buried Giant  Kazuo Ishiguro. Faber  2015   ‘The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declining into ruin.’ Blurb.  ...
Monday, January 1, 2024

Lost Realms by Thomas Williams. Puzzling over value Style #2

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  Part two. Lost Realms  by Thomas Williams (William Collins, 2022)    Does style matter in non-fictive texts? I think it does. I may be wro...
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...