Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
(edit 30th August 2018 – (edit 30th August 2018 – for further extracts from Arnold Bax’s “Farewell My Youth”, see here on the forgotten and despised man of the Irish revolution,…
Walking in the Millennium Forest in Kilkenny I saw in the distance what seemed like an unbelievably considerate butterfly lying still on a tree trunk: As I approached, it was suspiciously still…
Another Ticonderoga Publications review, following the review of “Ghost Seas” by Steven Utley of the prior post, here is a review of Lewis Shiner’s Love in Vain. Lewis Shiner is an interesting writer – I…
This review, unlike that of“Old Friends”, now seems rather dated. Not because of the book (which I would like to re-read) but the tone, simultneously bombastically magisterial in the opening paragraphs…
Following reposting my review of GUD#5 here is my review of GUD#6. Following this I had interesting correspondence with Lou Antonelli and Jim Pascual Agustin Following my review of GUD Issue 5, it…
Following on my reposting of my review of Aldebo 1 Issue 39, here is the first of my two reviews of issues of Greatest Uncommon Denominator magazine. The early paragraphs include…
‘You have spoken of the will,’ I said. ‘In the tales of the Mabinogion, two kings play chess on the summit of a hill, while below them their warriors fight.…
On my recent trip to Montmorillon I picked up for six euro a paperback Le Livre d’or de la science fiction: J G Ballard: As French Wikipedia puts it “Le Livre d’or…
Séamus Sweeney 