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Happy New Year's Day

A gaudy gif for you...




Have a wonderful next dance around the sun!

Just made a spanking new facebook page for Charis in the World of Wonders, fit for a New Year's Day. Please drop by, and check out the facebook page for the recent collection of poems, The Book of the Red King, while you're wandering my digital lands. Art on both pages by the marvelous Clive Hicks-Jenkins of Wales.



And

The Rollipoke flies again!

Sweet little birdsby Clive Hicks-Jenkins,made as extra decorationsfor French flaps



That peculiar little newsletter about my writings, The Rollipoke, went out this afternoon (no. 15: Surprises!) News about the upcoming novel, Charis in the World of Wonders (Ignatius Press), and about the new book of poems, The Book of the Red King (Phoenicia Publishing.)

Craving your very own Rollipoke? Fly

Christmas thoughts on painting and symbol...

Detail, Zanobi Strozzi, c.1433.

(Perhaps with some figure work by Fra Angelico?)

Predella to an altarpiece.

Tempera with gold on wood.

Wikipedia Creative Commons licence.

Image donated to CC by the Met.





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                                           Oh Thou, whose glorious, yet contracted light,

                                           Wrapt in night's mantle, stole into a

Updatery: Red King news

Illumination by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
for The Book of the Red King, 172 pp.
(Montreal: Phoenicia Publishing, 2019)

Wee note to encourage the Fool, the Red King, and Precious Wentletrap: Writer Jessica Hooten Wilson (winner of the very big deal, tthe Hiett Prize in the Humanities) has published a review of The Book of the Red King in Fathom. I have updated the page for The Book of the Red King,

Dream diary: "Birthday"

Last night several of my children were spending the night, and my daughter was cold in her room; I turned up the heat and about six in the morning had the most intricate writer's nightmare. I dreamed that I was young and in a class with John Gardner. (Why? The only person I know who has talked at length about what John Gardner meant to him as a teacher is Jeffrey Ford, so I don't know a lot

What writers do and do not want for Christmas etc.

Aiieee! Cowflop! This is 100-proof bogus nonsense. What writers want for Christmas or the holiday of their preference is for you to read one (or more!) of their books (preferably after buying, as numbers help them sell the next book to a publisher) and then to ramble around in their created worlds. Also, they want dratted Amazon etc. reviews because those things are helpful to the book, and

Event change

PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE                         

December 15 Sunday 3:00

Reading,  The Book of the Red King



Village of Cooperstown Library

22 Main Street

Ballroom venue (upstairs) or downstairs meeting room TBA

I'll confirm the location here when I know.



Interior decoration at right by Clive Hicks-Jenkins.

John Wilson's Year of Reading 2019

The Book of the Red King is on John Wilson's booklist at First Things. Hurrah! There's a good bit of poetry on the list, including new books by Jennifer Reeser (a poet I met long ago at the Westchester poetry conference), Aaron Belz, the late Brett Foster, Diane Glancy, Laurance Wieder, and Jane Tyson Clement, who died in 2000. And more in other genres...

The Fool frolics at E-Verse Radio

"Definition of Fool" 

from The Book of the Red King

at E-Verse Radio
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Art by
Clive Hicks-Jenkins

The Red King's Friends

Please drop by the page for The Book of the Red King, now with additional new and enticing comments from novelist Scott G. F. Bailey, poet Ray Oliver, much-laureled poet and novelist Fred Chappell, poet Sally Thomas, poet Jeffery Beam, and poet and novelist Sebastian Doubinsky. The last of these posted a review on my birthday yesterday: lovely gift!

At right: a precious wentletrap by Clive