Ewan
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Ewan Lawrie
The picture is me signing copies of my novel, Gibbous House at Unbound Books HQ in Islington by the canal.
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"Sometimes People Don’t Take Me Seriously Enough." [Mister Martínez Part Twenty Eight]
Or me... image is from wikipedia commons. Photo taken by Ben Coombs: licence CC2.0
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"I Thought I'd Do Something About the Tropes Instead" [Mr Martinez Part Twenty Seven]
Some people have no small talk... image source Pikist CC4.0 licence
Lunacy
A poem about 18 lines long. Now you know. Image source tumbler. No known copyright issues.
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"At Least I Didn't Whistle" [Mr Martinez Part Twenty Six]
Short and bitter (like me)... Image author's own terrible photography.
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"Somewhere Full of Guiris" [Mr Martínez Twenty Five]
The Wild Rover Irish Pub in Barcelona is a much better place than I've made it sound, or at least it was when I was last there around 10 years ago. Image is a detail from a blog post illustration and has no copyright issues: source is https://www.barcrawlbarcelona.com/top-10-pubs-in-barcelona/
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There will be
Posted on Mon, 10 Feb 2020
...but as you know I'm writing Moffat III at the moment (12,000 words and counting). I always have a vanity project going, whilst I'm writing a novel. It helps to dive off into something else completely unrelated. Usually, The Picture Ranch or...
Read full commentPosted in Powerhousing II
Ah well,
Posted on Wed, 18 Dec 2019
don't we know? "This is John, he...we used to know each other." Joan is about 19, John has been away for 20 years.
Read full commentYes, I know people don't like holes, but I do like clues, rather than telling everything.
Anyway, glad you liked it...
Posted in A Polka Dot Dress
One thing you will
Posted on Thu, 06 Jul 2017
find by doing this, is that your description in any prose you do write will be tighter, more compact, more effective, it's something I was told would happen if I wrote more poetry. I'm not completely sure it has for me, but it will for you....
Read full commentPosted in Tail-end
It's the mothballs
Posted on Tue, 10 Jan 2017
I remember, and the faint smell of Lion pee and Turkish Delight.... hahaha. I do not know anyone who has never explored their parents' wardrobe. When I was 8, my dad's wardrobe had hundreds of football programmes from the 40's and 50's; Rangers...
Read full commentPosted in Grimms5
This deceptively simple
Posted on Tue, 25 Aug 2020
poem is deep and moving. Not a word wasted. That's why it's today's Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day: why not share or retweet if you like it too?
Read full commentPosted in The Places
Ahh,
Posted on Tue, 25 Aug 2020
sublime. Dextrous and thrilling use of language.
Read full commentWell done.
Best
Ewan
Posted in Salamander
Yes,
Posted on Sun, 05 Jul 2020
Victorian in feel, more Tennyson, as has been said, than the romantics.
The repetition of wallet in two stanzas in a row brought me up short, but it's just a quibble. Wallet itself is a relatively new import from the US in 1913 (OED 2nd...
Read full commentPosted in The Impostor
White noise
Posted on Mon, 17 Aug 2020
is played very loud as an "interrogation" technique by most intelligence agencies. That's the point , government people know about Rueda's phone. It's easy enough to keep track of a mobile, even if it's switched off. Teniente Elizondo doesn't...
Read full commentPosted in "Señor Bean" [Mr Martínez: Eleven]
Good poem,
Posted on Mon, 17 Aug 2020
I wonder how many buildings I've lived or worked in over the years have gone. A really good poem that starts very well.
I'm just wondering about the ending. It's a bit flippant, at least for me, I'd certainly lose the exclamation mark....
Read full commentPosted in Closure By Slideshow
Your
Posted on Tue, 11 Aug 2020
beautiful and bucolic pieces are their own reward, but have the cherries anyway.
Read full commentPosted in Cows
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