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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
Don't Ask
So many people in the Armed Forces back in the day - before don't ask don't tell - were living a lie. I'm glad most of them are still friends.
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The Esoteric Few
Whom Byron claimed one of his poems was written for. Not this one, because it's mine, but it's still for the esoteric few. Image author's own
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No-one Found
Nowadays we need closure. In the past, it might have been a long and lingering grief, we have forgotten what it is like not to know, which must make it even harder to bear. Image is PD, YAY!
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wOr d S
what it s a ys Image created by author at canva.com
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Let's Dance
Go on, let's image source: James Vaughan, flicker.com Image Licence Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
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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.
Read full commentPosted in Pluto’s ode to Charon
The beauty of
Posted on Wed, 19 Feb 2020
a classical education, recognising the names of planets' obscure moons. That suggests Boris would be quite at home, Trump perhaps would not. Although I admit both deserve to be under the Lord of the Underworld's aegis.
Read full commentAnyway. I love this...
Posted in Pluto’s ode to Charon
Congratulations!
Posted on Tue, 04 Feb 2020
You get better and better at this kind of beautiful, bucolic poetry and that's why it is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day.
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Thank you
Posted on Wed, 15 Jan 2020
for being such a good egg, in spite of the grim business you're dealing with. My mum, who nursed my Dad through a long drawn out dementia decline, is now difficult, inclined to see slights where none are intended. My sister bears the entire...
Read full commentPosted in The Low Men
Splendid
Posted on Tue, 24 Dec 2019
stuff. How marvellous that Spartak Moscow is quite a villainous chap, as back in the bad old days their football team was full of soldiers who were quite villainous themselves.
I do like the bold type for certain things that would have...
Read full commentPosted in MovieLand! (A Christmas Story. Part 1)
I voted every
Posted on Mon, 18 Nov 2019
time whilst I lived in Spain until they said I couldn't. Why wouldn't I vote now? Despite what the poem says.
Read full commentPosted in We Fools
This gorgeous piece
Posted on Tue, 08 Oct 2019
that's about soup - and contains surprises just like the catch-all soup our (grand)parents made from leftovers and whatever they grew- is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day. Why not share AND retweet if you like it too?
Read full commentPosted in This October Brings Endings
No, I didn't either
Posted on Sat, 26 Aug 2017
because by the time I started with OU Eliot and Pound were no longer "suitable". I bought Eliot's poetry with annotations. I was lucky that I'd studied Latin and French to to A-Level along with English. No Eliot there either! I love the...
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