Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Praise for The Fabled Third.

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The English poet and critic Jeremy Hooker on The Fabled Third . (Email correspondence reproduced here with his kind permission.)   ' The...
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Warriors of the Wasteland. Fake news from prehistory.

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  Warning: Opinionating in progress   I think books like this are dangerous. They are the historical version of fake news and they are preda...
Monday, January 27, 2025

Narrative Poetry and the Critic

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I tell stories. I don’t think of it as writing poetry.   Poetry is T.S.Eliot, W.B.Yeats, David Jones, Basil Bunting, Louis MacNeice, R.S.Tho...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Translating Culhwch and Olwen, final thoughts.

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And as long as he lived, she was his only wife   I love this story, I have known it for decades. I wouldn’t like to live in it.    Translati...

A Presentment of Englishry, A Man of Heart, The Fabled Third

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I started writing these ten years ago and now they are finished and I can hear the Grateful Dead singing; 'What a long strange trip it...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The Fabled Third is now published

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  The Fabled Third is now available directly from the publisher:  Click Here   and from the usual online outlets. Take advantage of a weak ...
Monday, January 6, 2025

John Masefield's versions of the story of Arthur's conception.

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(King Uther and Igraine after Gorlois's death, from  Uther and Igraine  by Warwick Deeping , illustration by  Władysław T. Benda , 1903 ...