Author and Renaissance wannabe
I’ve written before about the playlists I put together when writing, both for writing over all and sub-playlists for the moods in certain sections, but this time I’m going to share the music a bit more. As music plays a central role in many ofbthe …
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This is a rather strange book to add to my Influences section, as I’ve only just finished it for the first time, but I can’t believe I haven’t pick it up before (I loved Goodbye to Berlin) and I suspect if I’d read it when …
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Unusually, this post is about a specific song, and different versions of it, which for me, is always the sign of a great song. The power and message of the music speaks for itself, and I adore the original by The Boss, but my first …
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I could have picked any of his books, but Harry Harrison is, my opinion, one of the most under-rated and influential writers of the Twentieth Century. What do you mean you’ve never heard of him? Harrison wrote space-operas, parodies and wicked commentaries on society, and …
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Let me say upfront, I love this film, I love the graphic novel, and I’ll argue until the c(r)ows come home with anyone who disagrees. Right, that’s out of the way. The Crow is known for a number of things, the wonderful/terrible vision of a …
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Our Death: p13 – Untitled https://preludemag.com/posts/untitled-477/ This is a very difficult blogpost to write, as the poetry I’ve selected here as an example of the body of work isn’t one of Sean’s best known, nor is it an example of his work that I love …
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A very short ‘Influences’ piece here, as the book in question didn’t influence my writing so much as my love of reading. It was back when I was at primary school, and we’d just received it, newly published, into the School library (the memories come …
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Blimey, this takes me back. For those of a certain age in the UK, you, like me, may have had episodes played to you on a chunky cathode ray TV at primary school, and certainly on the BBC in school holidays. As I remember it, …
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Bit of a cheat this one, as in terms of influence my choice probably encompasses several bits of music together, and it could easily have been one of the others listed, but I’ll come to that in a moment. Everyone has songs that mean something …
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As I’ve previously mentioned some of the things that originally got me addicted to reading (see Rupert blogpost) there also has to be an honourable shout out for the ‘Mark Fox’ books by Michael Hardcastle. Men of a certain vintage (they were written very much …
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