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.
All three Moffat novels are available here
My stories
Mirrors for Princes
(Brunellus and) The Mirror of Fools is a satire written by Nigel de Longchamps sometime around the turn of the 12th Century. What is this about? Hold it up to the mirror... it won't help. More old stuff. Image is PD
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The Rag Doll's Clothes (I Am Not Invisible)
Photograph is from wiki commons - unfortunately - taken in 2006, I wonder where this woman is now? Is she even alive? A large proportion of the UK's homeless are ex-military personnel. Licence cc-by-sa-2.0.
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Son of My Father
What's this one about? Fathers and sons, old age, what awaits us all... and loads of other things, you decide. Image in PD, source Look and Learn.com, Odysseus and the sirens.
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Black Hole
Another old one. I treated it to some punctuation and one word change. So now it's a completely different poem, isn't it? Picture is from wiki commons. Used under CC 4.0 licence
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Poetry Commotion
And this is the oldest thing I could find today. It used to be on an earlier incarnation of UKA, in 2010. image made at canva.com
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Lovely poem, Richard.
Posted on Fri, 18 Nov 2022
Do you mean 'trawls' rather than 'trolls' at line 5?
Read full commentPosted in Lonely is a Vagabond
This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day 17th Nov 2022
Posted on Wed, 16 Nov 2022
This excellent slice of misspent youth is our pick of the day. Please, dear readers, share and/or retweet if you like it too.
Read full commentPosted in "Forever Autumn"
Another good chunk
Posted on Thu, 17 Nov 2022
of this skilfully written tale.
I've spotted two typos.
You have "coffee's" vice "coffees" at line 2.
You have "I look like my mother had been conversing". Do you mean "...
Read full commentPosted in Runaway Mother chapter 14
This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day 10th Nov 2022
Posted on Thu, 10 Nov 2022
Gritty, authentic and well-written, this is our Pick of the Day. PLEASE share and/or retweet if you like it too.
Read full commentPosted in Runaway Mother chapter 9
Marvellous.
Posted on Thu, 10 Nov 2022
This reminds me of the kitchen sink drama* so prevalent in British film, TV and stage drama in the 60s. The narrative voice is utterly convincing. The milieu, the circumstances of the narrator and the locale are all outwith my life experiences,...
Read full commentPosted in Runaway Mother chapter 9
This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day 3 November 2022
Posted on Thu, 03 Nov 2022
Congratulations.
Surreal, touching, funny and sad. That's why this is our Pick of the Day.
Please share and/or retweet dear members.
Read full commentPosted in Centipede Olympics
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Posted on Fri, 21 Oct 2022
Fascinating is right and that's why this slice of an interesting life is our FB and Twitter Pick of the Day. PLEASE share and/or retweet ABC-ers.
Read full commentPosted in Joining up my rainbow memory dots - 1978 I help the homeless in Belfast
Thanks all for your comments.
Posted on Mon, 19 Sep 2022
The Monarchy, as it did all those years ago, when Elizabeth ascended to the throne, stands at a crossroads of history. Just as the Empire morphed into the Commonwealth, whilst Great Britain became the UK and the country's influence diminished,...
Read full commentPosted in Sic Transit Gloriana Nostre
Bill is
Posted on Mon, 19 Sep 2022
Shakespeare. The line is a slight paraphrase of one in Richard II:
"Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs"
I came across it the other day, when I was looking for something else.
Read full commentPosted in Sic Transit Gloriana Nostre
This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day
Posted on Wed, 14 Sep 2022
This high-quality writing is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day. Please share and/or retweet, readers, if you like it too.
Read full commentPosted in Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses
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