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
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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Mono Log
First of all, let's call it prosetry. Well, I've been playing with this one for well over 10 years. My normal mode of working is give the keyboard a bash and then dash. Those I do fiddle with, I rarely improve. However, I've had a go with this... Regarding the quoted/allusory material, I would say that this is the upper (or do I mean lower??) limit of acceptable, but what do I know. If anyone's worried, I'll take it down.
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Another Year
More odes from the crypt... It's about... 6 lines too long - or short, I don't know. Image is from pxhere.com
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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
Congratulations,this is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day
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.
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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
Most likely.
Posted on Fri, 09 Sep 2022
I think my imaginary Bert's attitude is acceptable. A black armband and do what you would normally do. Maybe turn on the TV for the actual funeral, if you're not emptying bins, or "a dinner lady or a steelworker". (Look that up, see why it's...
Read full commentPosted in The Day After
This is marvellous.
Posted on Thu, 25 Aug 2022
I do love this one. Lots to admire here.
"His face is the waves of shipwreck
slants and slashes,"
is absolutely terrific.
Well done.
E x
Read full commentPosted in RJC
This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day 19th August 202
Posted on Sun, 14 Aug 2022
This clever use of simple language to express complex emotion means that this poem is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day. Please, those who use social media, share and/or retweet so others can enjoy it too.
Read full commentPosted in The Gift
I have changed the font size,
Posted on Sun, 14 Aug 2022
I hope you don't mind. It really was very small and I'd hate for peope to have missed out on your excellent poem because they couldn't read it.
E x
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