Ian Gouge's Blog, page 11
June 23, 2024
June 20, 2024
Words of wisdom? You decide…
Some recent posts from my Substack site:
June 13, 2024
Booking for Market Rasen ‘WordFest’ performances now open!
Booking is now open for events at the Market Rasen ‘WordFest’ literary day on Saturday 6th July. I have two limited-seating slots: a second performance of Crash, and a more casual ‘pop-up’ hour of readings and conversation. BOOK HERE. From the reviews of the 2023 Ripon Theatre Festival Performance:
June 7, 2024
“Birnam Wood”
Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood is a strange amalgam of a book. For the first two thirds it meanders slowly along without seeming to be getting anywhere particularly significant – and then, as if it has been injected with some illicit substance, suddenly speeds up and turns into ‘a thriller’ with an ending that has more … Continue reading “Birnam Wood” →
June 6, 2024
The performance is now official!
From the reviews of the 2023 Ripon Theatre Festival Performance:
May 30, 2024
Writing – and a kind of ‘Hollywood insight’…
Links to recent posts on my Substack site. Please come and join me there!
May 15, 2024
Recent posts on “Writing until the light goes out”
Links to recent posts on my Substack site:
May 13, 2024
“Getting Through”
There is a theme of regret and missed opportunity running through John McGahern’s short story collection, Getting Through. Mainly these involve broken relationships, between man and woman, father and son: ‘Sierra Leone’, ‘Along the Edges’. As with High Ground and other stories, McGahern’s prose has a depth which belies the narrative somehow. They are incidents … Continue reading “Getting Through” →
May 11, 2024
“Eleanor Among the Saints”
This will be short. Apologies, but I found Rachel Mann’s collection Eleanor Among the Saints obtuse and impenetrable. Untouched, unmoved, disinterested, I gave up about 40% of the way through. Reading list
