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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Ticking
As it's nearly Samhain, Halloween, whatever... image licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 photographer ropphotography on instagram
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emptying the sea
And a Sisyphean task it is... image source wikipedia commons, but I fiddled with it a bit... used under CCA_SA 4.0 licence image photograph: Earlyspatz
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1966 and All That
And it wasn't all that. Image is free for non-commercial use from needpix.com
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A Kindness
This is my entry for The Walter Swan Poetry Prize 2020 run by Ilkley Literature Festival. You can catch the deserved winners on youtube.com The standard was very high, at least among those who won. I'm not displeased with this, though. Image from pixabay.com free for non-commercial use & without attribution.
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I Am Tired of Complexity
Well, I am. Image by Hans Braxmeier from Pixabay
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Hi Ed,
Posted on Tue, 04 Aug 2020
loved this. Any reason for "night-lite" vice "night-light"? You have "nite-lite" at the end. Should "swats" in "swats-for-mocks" be swots (like I was)?
Well done.
Read full commentPosted in Box Room
Thanks for sticking
Posted on Sat, 01 Aug 2020
with them Stephen, and for spotting the typo. I'm not sure where it's going yet, but it's not going anywhere before next week as I've a few things to do until Friday.
I think violence generally is sudden and shocking. The threat of...
Read full commentPosted in "Sparse and Molasses Slow" Mr Martínez Six(?)
No, I just
Posted on Tue, 07 Jul 2020
thought it was a pseudonym and he was really called J.R.Hartley. Thanks for the good wishes, I'll need them!
Read full commentPosted in Tolkien on Disco Biscuits
Have
Posted on Tue, 26 May 2020
an egg, could be a osprey's. It would go well with a couple of cherries.
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Moving
Posted on Wed, 13 May 2020
heartfelt poetry.
You have a typo in the last line. 'Liaison' looks funny, but is the correct spelling.
I enjoyed this.
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Wish
Posted on Wed, 15 Apr 2020
I'd seen this yesterday. A bit of a sideways look itself, as I'm sure you intended.
You have a typo in para 6
"Her acquaintances or “friends” tend to have somewhat needy themselves,"
I cannot tell you...
Read full commentPosted in Crab Customs
Builds well.
Posted on Tue, 14 Apr 2020
I wonder if you could have strung (ho,ho) the reader along a little longer. Not reveal that there are no strings quite yet. No matter. I'd be interested to read part II. Some might protest that your piece is a little over-written, but I think,...
Read full commentPosted in Got No Strings - Part 1
I'm supposed
Posted on Wed, 01 Apr 2020
to be working on Moffat III, but changes at Unbound mean that it probably won't be accepted for publication, so I've kind of lost enthusiasm for it. Moffat II No Good Deed is on the final straight before publishing in September, Covid-19...
Read full commentPosted in 43. Be Stiff
This is
Posted on Wed, 26 Feb 2020
particularly good.
You have a typo, doubtless caused by your "spool chukka", in para beginning 'In 1969...'
"The bus took us too and from the junior school." You need 'to' here.
An excellent exploration of what...
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Laughter
Posted on Wed, 19 Feb 2020
in the dark, I know, but it's still laughter. Thanks for making me laugh out loud.
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