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.
Both Moffat novels are available here
I do
Posted on Fri, 18 Dec 2020
remember the ghost in the armchair from others' houses, it would have been a grandparent of course. Never saw anyone violent. That must be truly awful, like living with a tyrant.
Read full commentThe washing machine that we were encouraged to use in The...
Posted in A Life Like That
No,
Posted on Mon, 07 Dec 2020
I don't feel there's too much dialogue at all. Exposition can be achieved through dialogue or narrative and you should definitely mix it up whether you're writing a short story, novella or a novel.
If I have doubts about which to use in a...
Read full commentPosted in Rude Awakenings (Part two of two)
I do
Posted on Fri, 27 Nov 2020
love a good nihilistic git as a main character! Fabulous atmosphere, I could almost smell Hot Plate Heaven.
Read full commentPosted in Pigeon Variations - Ch 4 - Hero Grill Chef
One theory
Posted on Thu, 26 Nov 2020
is that Ashurbanipal was Sardanapalus (and transliteration can do funny things, especially from cuneiform into Greek and later Latin script) BUT Ashurbanipal is everywhere else but in Cteisis's version - which itself is only known through...
Read full commentPosted in Historiography
Perhaps your
Posted on Wed, 25 Nov 2020
next collection could contain a whole aviary? Another fine poem.
Read full commentE x
Posted in Hoopoe
Hahaha
Posted on Sun, 15 Nov 2020
If only it weren't all so nearly true!
Read full commentWell done.
Posted in Invisible
Your poem
Posted on Wed, 18 Nov 2020
reminded me of a visit to the Jurong Bird Park in Singapore one day, over 40 years ago.
Monsoon season, I remember it well. Half the broadsheet back page of the Straits Times would be dedicated to forecasts attempting to predict at what...
Read full commentPosted in Monsoon
Some
Posted on Mon, 09 Nov 2020
striking imagery here.
Do you mean "algæ-d" at line 8?
Your poem finishes very strongly with these lines.
"the sun’s departure
under the horizon’s guillotine,
...
Read full commentPosted in Retirement options for tube trains, #7, Foulness Island
I think
Posted on Wed, 28 Oct 2020
this has touches of MR James about it: something off, glimpsed out of the corner of your eye. Bags of atmosphere, you have a sure touch when generating a sense of place.
Sound.
Ewan x
Read full commentPosted in Of An Outhouse In Autumn (2)
Weird
Posted on Mon, 19 Oct 2020
is good. And that's all I have to say.
E x
Read full commentPosted in The Walrus and the Pearl
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