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November 19, 2019
Lady Word of Mouth returns...
Jeffery Beam is back up at Lady Word of Mouth with Spectral Pegasus / Dark Movements! Based on art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins...
November 11, 2019
Some recent online poems
Reliquary Bust of Saint Margaret of Antioch. Attributed to Nicolaus Gerhaert van Leyden (act. in Germany, 1462 - 73), Netherlandish. 1465-70. Walnut with traces of polychromy. Art Institute of Chicago.Wikipedia Commons.
A poem up today at First Things: "An Icon of St. Margaret." And it is in good company with poems by Sally Thomas (fellow Carolina poet with a book forthcoming from Able Muse),
A poem up today at First Things: "An Icon of St. Margaret." And it is in good company with poems by Sally Thomas (fellow Carolina poet with a book forthcoming from Able Muse),
November 4, 2019
The Book of the Red King as Board Game?
Image pilfered from Paul Pastor's twitter page
@pauljpastor
A month back, writer Fred Chappell wrote me a long, curious letter about The Book of the Red King, and he suggested a way of looking at the book that I found interesting and enlightening. He talked about puns, sound play, musical language, and many other things, but it's his thoughts about board game and the book that I'm sharing
@pauljpastor
A month back, writer Fred Chappell wrote me a long, curious letter about The Book of the Red King, and he suggested a way of looking at the book that I found interesting and enlightening. He talked about puns, sound play, musical language, and many other things, but it's his thoughts about board game and the book that I'm sharing
October 27, 2019
Coming in 2020
Detail from artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins,
cover for Charis in the World of Wonders
Marly Youmans' historic novel 'Charis in the World of Wonders' chronicles the journey of its protagonist on her horseback flight from destruction to sanctuary and from sanctuary to an unexpected madness that had me gnawing my knuckles as I read.
Marly is a peerless writer and at Ignatius she has an editor and
cover for Charis in the World of Wonders
Marly Youmans' historic novel 'Charis in the World of Wonders' chronicles the journey of its protagonist on her horseback flight from destruction to sanctuary and from sanctuary to an unexpected madness that had me gnawing my knuckles as I read.
Marly is a peerless writer and at Ignatius she has an editor and
October 19, 2019
Writer-readers on The Book of the Red King
Illumination by Clive Hicks-Jenkins of WalesPhoenicia Publishing, 2019
I continue to be grateful to novelist Scott G. F. Bailey for his ongoing and perceptive treatment of my work. As a reader, he always enters into a work with a free mind and writes engagingly of what he finds. Now he has written a long blog post about The Book of the Red King; you may read the whole thing HERE, at Six
I continue to be grateful to novelist Scott G. F. Bailey for his ongoing and perceptive treatment of my work. As a reader, he always enters into a work with a free mind and writes engagingly of what he finds. Now he has written a long blog post about The Book of the Red King; you may read the whole thing HERE, at Six
October 8, 2019
Reading-peep
Photos by Laurie Kearns.
The Red King at the Green Toad.
UPCOMING: Clive Hicks-Jenkins has been showing me images for the next book, a novel, this week; he writes a bit about us, the book, and his other illumination work HERE.
The Red King at the Green Toad.
UPCOMING: Clive Hicks-Jenkins has been showing me images for the next book, a novel, this week; he writes a bit about us, the book, and his other illumination work HERE.
October 1, 2019
Next reading: Oneonta - Green Toad
October 5 Saturday 2:00 p.m.
Marly Youmans reading from The Book of the Red King
GREEN TOAD BOOKSTORE
198 Main St. Oneonta, NY 13820
(607) 433-8898
I forgot to take any pictures at my North Carolina events for The Book of the Red King. But here's an article (thank you, Megan Pociask) about my
Marly Youmans reading from The Book of the Red King
GREEN TOAD BOOKSTORE
198 Main St. Oneonta, NY 13820
(607) 433-8898
I forgot to take any pictures at my North Carolina events for The Book of the Red King. But here's an article (thank you, Megan Pociask) about my
September 27, 2019
Hands across enchanted seas
Clive Hicks-Jenkins
vignette on Tomoe River paper
for Charis in the World of Wonders
Often I am asked about what it's like to work--I always think the verb should be dance--with artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins. He has illuminated and beautified my books for a long time now. I often thought of us as metaphysical twins (I can't remember who first came up with that thought) when we first tumbled
vignette on Tomoe River paper
for Charis in the World of Wonders
Often I am asked about what it's like to work--I always think the verb should be dance--with artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins. He has illuminated and beautified my books for a long time now. I often thought of us as metaphysical twins (I can't remember who first came up with that thought) when we first tumbled
September 25, 2019
The Red King dancing with Charis
Preparatory sketch
by
Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Clive Hicks-Jenkins, from facebook: "A tiny and rough-ish drawing from my current project-book for Marly Youmans’ new novel ‘Charis in the World of Wonders’. The project-book contains several suggestions to the editorial board for the cover, one of which has now been selected and signed-off on, plus a stitchwork-inspired bestiary as a starting
by
Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Clive Hicks-Jenkins, from facebook: "A tiny and rough-ish drawing from my current project-book for Marly Youmans’ new novel ‘Charis in the World of Wonders’. The project-book contains several suggestions to the editorial board for the cover, one of which has now been selected and signed-off on, plus a stitchwork-inspired bestiary as a starting
September 21, 2019
Cabins and ladyslippers
Here's a glimpse of where I've been...
Back to blogging in about a week.
Back to blogging in about a week.
