The complete novel, Play With Knives: Four: George and Clare, the Baby and the Bikies by Jennifer Maiden is now available as a free download from the Books page.
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The complete Medieval French Chantefable, Aucassin et Nicolette, translated and photo-illustrated by Katharine Margot Toohey, is now available as a free download on the Books page.
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A new poetry collection by Jennifer Maiden, Appalachian Fall: Poems About Poverty in Power, in November, 2017.
Fifteen poems - 'Dulcinea and I were Enchanted', The Civil Guard, Victoria and Tony: 7:The Veil, The round, pretty eyes of the Hebrides: a duet poem, George Jeffreys: 23: George Jeffreys Woke Up on a Golf Course in New Jersey, George Jeffreys: 21 and 22 (21 included with the prose/verse Prologue to the next George Jeffreys poems), Wind-rock, Posing a political threat, The Mystery, The Thousand Yachts, Hillary and Eleanor 15: San Francisco Bay, Jimmy Carter: One: Pretty Saro , Jimmy Carter: Two: Dylan Thomas and Diary Poem: Uses of the Appalachian Fall - from the collection can be downloaded here as a preview, by clicking on the cover picture.
Audio versions of the poems 'Dulcinea and I were Enchanted', The Civil Guard, Victoria and Tony: 7: The Veil, The round, pretty eyes of the Hebrides: a duet poem, Posing a political threat and Wind-rock, read by Jennifer Maiden, are available on the News page, as is a video of her reading George Jeffreys: 22: George Jeffreys Woke Up in Thirroul Again.
Fifteen poems - 'Dulcinea and I were Enchanted', The Civil Guard, Victoria and Tony: 7:The Veil, The round, pretty eyes of the Hebrides: a duet poem, George Jeffreys: 23: George Jeffreys Woke Up on a Golf Course in New Jersey, George Jeffreys: 21 and 22 (21 included with the prose/verse Prologue to the next George Jeffreys poems), Wind-rock, Posing a political threat, The Mystery, The Thousand Yachts, Hillary and Eleanor 15: San Francisco Bay, Jimmy Carter: One: Pretty Saro , Jimmy Carter: Two: Dylan Thomas and Diary Poem: Uses of the Appalachian Fall - from the collection can be downloaded here as a preview, by clicking on the cover picture.
Audio versions of the poems 'Dulcinea and I were Enchanted', The Civil Guard, Victoria and Tony: 7: The Veil, The round, pretty eyes of the Hebrides: a duet poem, Posing a political threat and Wind-rock, read by Jennifer Maiden, are available on the News page, as is a video of her reading George Jeffreys: 22: George Jeffreys Woke Up in Thirroul Again.
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In 2018, Quemar will publish a new English translation by Katharine Margot Toohey of Bernat Metge's late fourteenth century Catalan masterpiece, Lo Sompni (known as 'Lo Somni' in modern Catalan). This story about official persecution is a precursor to works such as Orwell's 1984.
A fifth preview of the beginning of Lo Sompni (The Dream) is available by clicking on the cover picture below. Imprisoned in a dangerous setting for the murder of King John the First, Metge describes spectral conversations with the dead King so that the text will persuade the new King to release him.
A fifth preview of the beginning of Lo Sompni (The Dream) is available by clicking on the cover picture below. Imprisoned in a dangerous setting for the murder of King John the First, Metge describes spectral conversations with the dead King so that the text will persuade the new King to release him.
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In 2018, Quemar will publish Jennifer Maiden's next Play With Knives novel, Play With Knives: Five: George and Clare, the Malachite and the Diamonds.
In it, Clare and George, with their baby, Corbyn, begin a quest to rescue the young woman, Quentin, from the murderous Schmidt, and Maiden begins her first Russian/Mt Druitt novel, exploring passion and age, as well as adventure. The full first chapter, 'Well-dressed, haunted angels', can be read by clicking on the cover below.
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