Ewan
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34 collections on the site.
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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
Where is Everybody?
Well, where? Image created by me at canva.com
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This is Poetry?
One of the first few sonnets I ever wrote... I took a word out of it today.
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Strange Days
This is a piece that didn't make it into the very unreliable Berlin memoir 'In the Mouth of the Bear'. (Available on the 'Zon, in big writing). It's just descriptive, it's not really about anything, so I left it out.
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Invitation to a Cocktail Waitress
Another poem poked at and fiddled with. Imagine it read in TW's bar-room growl while he smokes a cigarette. Image made by me at canva.com a collage of PD images
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Totentanz
image is PD source wiki commons. Now that Netanyahu is intent on his own Crime of the Century. I thought I'd put all my Guignol, Teutonic Mediaeval, Holocaust, Apocalyptic (basically anything that mentions Totentanz) in the same collection. Don't wait up, it may take some time.
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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
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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,...
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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.
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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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