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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Listen
One in ten homeless is ex-military. Lest we forget. Do something for the homeless, buy the book in the image. Link at the foot of the poem.
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Starward Flung Spears
Nothing to do with Rameses II... Picture source flicker.com, used in accordance with CC2.0 generic, photographer Charlie Phillips
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Subject to Contract
yes it's meant to offend, how else can we make you think? Image has no known copyright issues.
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English Will Broken
Yes. I am. Image was released into the public domain by Mark Hamilton via Wikimedia.org
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Thimbles
It's not really about thimbles, I have a lisp. You could use three and a pea for the shell game. Does anyone use them now? Image source pixel.com
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Really liked this.
Posted on Wed, 08 Nov 2017
However, it needs a good "going at" for punctuation. Or you could not punctuate at all and leave everything in lower case, which might well suit the content. The problem is that some punctuation is worse (in terms of meaning) than none. One thing...
Read full commentPosted in City Breath
I see
Posted on Thu, 26 Oct 2017
what Jack means.
"beyond make-do-and-mend"
or even
"beyond make-do-and-mending"
I like this.
Best
Ewan
Read full commentPosted in Broken
Truly
Posted on Wed, 18 Oct 2017
outstanding writing. As allusive (and perhaps elusive) as a long poem by Eliot. I'll be reading this over and over today picking out all the references.
You have a typo
Read full comment"When at home, I read a book every day...
Posted in The Black Book Restored: Fragments 1A to 33 (second half)
This second part
Posted on Sun, 15 Oct 2017
to a story, which stands as a fine piece of writing in and of itself, is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day. Why not share or retweet it if you like it too?
Part one can be found...
Read full commentPosted in BERNARD Part 2 (from Ribbentrop's Chair)
Splendid.
Posted on Thu, 12 Oct 2017
I think Jack's picked up on a couple of things, (I admit I didn't notice them).
It's interesting that you chose to write "risen mounds". If there is some idea of autonomy here, fair enough. I like the idea that they've risen like loaves....
Read full commentPosted in Yellow Ribbons
There are always
Posted on Sun, 17 Sep 2017
at least two poems on the page: the one the writer wrote and the one the reader understands (or not). Poetry truly is the infinite art, since its meaning is open to infinite interpretations. I know many people who do not enjoy this nebulous...
Read full commentPosted in time travelling
2nd
Posted on Sun, 17 Sep 2017
person narration is notoriously difficult to pull off, but you've managed it well. What I like so much about what you do is the vast swathes of subtext, the gaps between the lines that are so tempting to fill and that we are unlikely to get wrong...
Read full commentPosted in The Oil Refinery
You
Posted on Thu, 14 Sep 2017
missed the "Flight" from Flight Lieutenant: No Lieutenants since the RFC became the RAF in 1918,
Best, Ewan, (former Flight Sergeant, No. 51 Sqn)
Read full commentPosted in The Second World War: PART 4 - Andrew MacDonald - Sagan (1943)
This
Posted on Tue, 14 May 2013
is poetry. This is life.
This is sharp and it cuts like a knife.
Lovely, lovely poetry. Hope we hear more from Shoe sometime soon.
Read full commentPosted in Viscosity
I
Posted on Sat, 26 Aug 2017
like to think I am capable of separating the art from the artist.
Years and years ago I did A101 Arts Foundation course with the OU (it would have been about '83). At summer school in Hounslow (!) we trashed a whole afternoon with the...
Read full commentPosted in Evening Walk in a Seaside Town
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