about the author

Sailor and librarian, navigator and researcher, teacher and trainer, and—always—a traveller: Chris Armstrong has had three careers, working as a merchant seaman, a farmhand on the farm where he still lives, and as an information scientist before retiring to become a poet and writer. He has one collection of poems in print, Mostly Welsh (Y Lolfa, 2019). Although initially entirely focussed on poetry, his writing has branched into short stories and works of fiction including this volume, The Dark Trilogy. He has published elsewhere: in Storgy, Agenda and London Grip New Poetry for example. Although born in Sussex, he has lived in a cottage in the mountains of Mid Wales most of his life.

about the book

A book that follows one man’s life might be an autobiography, but what is a book that traces the lives of two men? The autobiography which makes up the longest book of the trilogy holds the two histories of one man displaced by several hundred years, histories which interweave and come together in the Welsh mountains in the present day. And a part of one of those lives is traced further in the play for voices which makes up the second volume. Book three brings our characters to a resolution of kinds. Chris Armstrong has blended fact and fiction to create a complex story with many strands... a story of the sea, a story of passionate love, a story about a writer and poet, a story about his friend and editor, and a story about the past: a past that the writer only understands completely at the very end of his anabasis – his journey away from the sea.

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Ceredigion Art & Craft Showcase, The Bandstand, Aberystwyth

Thursday 15th December – Saturday 17th December 2022, 10am – 6pm.The Ceredigion Art & Craft Trail was formed to raise the profile of artists and craftspeople in Ceredigion, which it does through their ........

MON, 2022-NOV-7 AT 3:18 PM FROM 81.168.88.7 (EXETER, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, KCOM GROUP LIMITED) LAMPETER EVENT – MEET THE AUTHOR – 18TH NOVEMBER – 7 PM

To mark the beginning of an exhibition by members of the Ceredigion Art & Craft Trail set up by the library to celebrate the appearance of the Welsh team in the World Cup football tournament, there ........

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Busy Writing

Since The Dark Trilogy was published back in September 2022, I have been busy abd I now have five titles to my name! The most recent is a collection of poems - Lost Time - which brings togeth ........

What comes next?

In The Dark Trilogy, I created a literary alter ego - Trystan Lewis - named Trystan as I had a vague idea when I began writing to link him in some way with the Tristan in The Romance of Tristan an ........

The Scholar Critic

The device that I have used in The Dark Trilogy is one also used by Vladimir Nabokov in Pale Fire - that of using an imaginary second person - a scholar - to discuss and explain a poem, thereby narrat ........

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