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Whoops Apocalypse

This bookstore in Fowey, Cornwall may be onto something.

Gavin Scott Presents: The Man from Snowy River

One of my favourite action poems – one that makes you feel as if you’re riding hell for leather across the Australian outback. And by a poet called Banjo! What more could anyone want?

Gavin Scott Presents: Andrew Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress

Welcome to the latest edition of Gavin Scott Presents, a selection of my favourite prose and poetry. This week, “To His Coy Mistress”, by Andrew Marvell, who came from my home town of Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire. The poem is packed with phrases you’ll instantly recognise because other people have snapped them up to insert in their own works, starting with the first line “had we but world and time enough” and going on to the remark that “the grave’s a fine and private place”. The poem as a...

Happy New Year from the little people!

Picture courtesy of National Geographic; caption courtesy of me and the littlies. Let’s look after them in 2019.

Gavin Scott Presents: Two Sea Poems by John Masefield

Happy New Year! And to get 2019 off to a good start, here are two of my favourite poems about the sea from British Poet Laureate John Masefield

Gavin Scott Presents Christmas Edition

Gavin reads three poems for Christmas by Robert Bridges, Thomas Hardy and Henry Longfellow

CNN Man Five Stars The Age of Exodus

The Age of Exodus by Gavin Scott Review by CNN’s Sandro Monetti 5.0 out of 5 stars Hold on tight for this literary thrill ride November 29, 2018 Format: Kindle Edition This is like strapping yourself into a rollercoaster or time machine and taking a thrilling ride into history. Educational as well as entertaining, The Age of Exodus, a globetrotting adventure set in 1947, gives the reader a front row seat to defining events – and keeps you on the edge of it. But for all his impressive knowledge of...

Alpine Dreams

Hanging continues at Kiwis in LA. for October 13th Art Show at Santa Monica Airport Art Studios.  Today, “Alpine Dreams”, a celebration of All Things Swiss.

Kiwis in La Art Show October 13 2018

Busy delivering artwork for the Kiwis in LA Art Show this Saturday evening at 3026 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica 90405. Come along if you can – it’s enormous fun. Not just art but load of Kiwi food and wine and good company.

Gavin Scott presents Episode 3 Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias”