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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 ........
The Sea
The sea is ever present in my writing - both in my prose and in many of my poems. I spent ten years of my life at sea and, both before and after that time, the draw of swimming or surfing continued to ........
SOME WOULD ARGUE THAT NO GENRE IS MORE FICTITIOUS THAN A BIOGRAPHY
So said Carlos Ruiz Zafon – it is the lead quotation at the beginning of Book I. In an interview recently published in Poetry Wales, the poet Tim Relf says: “I don’t believe any of us are reliable n ........
SOME WOULD ARGUE THAT NO GENRE IS MORE FICTITIOUS THAN A BIOGRAPHY
So said Carlos Ruiz Zafon – it is the lead quotation at the beginning of Book I of The Dark Trilogy. In an interview recently published in Poetry Wales, the poet Tim Relf says: “I don’t believe any ........
THE DARK TRILOGY: AGON
So, a beginning. The agon, that conflict of my personae, that conflict of my characters. Today the wind has been blowing from the west and the rain, which has kept me from the little garden surround ........