This is not really a book of poetry. It is a book about an author trying to capture that ineffable something that has forced itself from the world into his perceptions: trying to find a form to communicate it to us. This poet is the man to do it. He can handle a wide range…
Month: January 2024
REVIEW
“Awakened Horror” by Quill Holland
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Fantasies work on our willingness to suspend our disbelief of fantastic events. Right off the top, this book requires a real stretch. At the end of Book One, a rebellion was successful, but apparently the only way to maintain order was for Raith, the leader of the rebels, to have his mind transferred into the…
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“The Singing Bones” by Eric Shane Love
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This is a classic Fantasy, based on the traditional Hero’s Journey format. The heroine, Grey, goes on a physical and metaphysical journey as she matures and struggles with the fact that her future is bound up in her past. Images of metamorphosis abound as she sheds the ties that bind her. It is a story…
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“East Van Panto: the Beaty and the Beast” York Theatre
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There’s not much point in a review that is posted in the final week of the run. However, I saw the show and I loved it, and my grandkids loved it, so I give credit where credit is due. And there’s always next year. The old-fashioned English Pantomime has been showing for decades, and I’m…