Thursday 26 November 2020
by Wulf
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Reviewing verse is harder than reviewing prose.80 poems by Lloyd Jacobs isAn honest tinfulMarking his 80th birthday with80 fragments of emotionAnd experience. Loose verse, not tied to patterns:A free approach to rhyme and meter,Not doggerel.Thoughts to make me reflect, orRecoil … Continue reading
Saturday 22 August 2020
by Wulf
Comments Off on Best of British Fantasy 2019
So far, 2020 feels like it could be the backdrop for the kind of story that makes up most of this collection of fantasy stories. Although focused on work from last year from authors working in Britain and Ireland, editor … Continue reading
Thursday 17 October 2019
by Wulf
Comments Off on Free Cornish Army by Chris Dolley
This short work is the partial autobiography of an author I have previously come across from lighthearted works like his ‘Reeves and Worcester’ steampunk detective stories. It covers a brief period of his life in the 1970s, organising japes for … Continue reading
Saturday 31 August 2019
by Wulf
Comments Off on Best of British Science Fiction 2018
I recently reviewed the equivalent anthology of British fantasy writing (in its inaugural year), so I had that volume in mind as I read through this collection. Both are large compendiums; this one, which has a long-standing pedigree, contains 26 … Continue reading
Wednesday 14 August 2019
by Wulf
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I was surprised to discover that The Best of British Fantasy 2018 (editor: Jared Shurin), which I got a review copy of from the LibraryThing Early Reviewer programme, was the first volume of this collection. There has been a long … Continue reading
Wednesday 21 November 2018
by Wulf
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I haven’t done so many book reviews recently and fewer still that have been sourced from the LibraryThing Early Reviewers programme. Why so? It does hinge on LibraryThing, which is still running the programme with a monthly release of new … Continue reading
Thursday 9 February 2017
by Wulf
Comments Off on Making a Mark by Marjorie Ann Watts
Making a Mark is a book about Western art history, from cave paintings to the present day. The introduction describes how the author wrote it in response to her grandson’s curiosity about movements cubism and impressionism. Laudable and an excellent … Continue reading