photo credit: YoHandy The weather was my last Connection to you; Blown inside-out, I’m lost, Wet-through In the torrents Of watered-down passion Pulled to the starry heights of everything-will-be-all right clouds I gather up my thoughts, Wrapping them tight inside like an approaching storm-front Unable To subside, Unable To ride out the weather. The weather
photo credit: alex__w Today’s workshop consisted of writing a number of words (a name, a place and four descriptive ones) and then passing these to another person to use as the basis for their writing. This writing had to be produced within a time limit of ten-fifteen minutes. My words (courtesy of Ken) were: John
New Year, new deadlines! Plenty of catching up on the writing schedule! The Photograph For thirty years I’ve carried the image in a magnetically clamped locket. Originally there were two photographs, but the second of the pair had an allure that would not leave me. Her face within that brass oval was not harsh or
The ESTRONOMICON 2007 Christmas Special features my short story “Christmas Angels”. This is a fragment from a new novel regarding the adventures of members of The Cabal, a shadowy group of investigators set in a London of the near-future. The Angels in question are the infamous Enochian entites that visited John Dee in 16th Centrury
My track Of Orient Are We (Three Kings), produced as Gothick, is available on the Dark Winter Holiday Compilation – A Candle’s Golden Glow It evokes the essence of the Dark Ambient genre as typified by Lustmorde, Bunk Data and others and incorporates reworkings of the traditional We Three Kings motifs with swirling, haunting soundscapes.
The book launch of Glyn Hughes’s poetry collection takes place on 8th December 2007 at the ArtsMill, Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire UK. Glyn Hughes’s poetry has been a Poetry Book Society recommendation, and a recipient of the Welsh Arts Council Poet’s Prize. His novels have been awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize, the David Higham Prize and
Following on from last week’s warping of the Blake classic “The Tiger”, I had the opportunity to set the theme this time myself, as Jerusalem. I knew it would be troublesome for people to get to grips with. It’s very easy as a writer to only write about subjects you enjoy yourself or not know
photo credit: Copleys This week’s exercise was a little more unusual that most. The brief was to take a favourite poem and then rewrite it, replacing nouns with diffferent nouns, verbs with different verbs etc. Everyone seemed to share the consensus that it is a very difficult task which consumes time rapidly. Of course this
Inspired by the netlabel Darkwinter, Gothick has spent the last few days working on a track called Silent Knight. It started out as a variation on the well-known Silent Night but insisted on becoming something very different. Tinged with snippets of Ethiopian Christmas chants and a Templar’s snowy footsteps its quickly gaining listeners since its
