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Sept '21. 'A Child of Love and War' (Cornovia Press), a verse memoir. Available from Amazon. 'This is not a record of facts but of important relationships in the emotional and sexual sphere. They are viewed from my perspective and therefore unreliably. The period covered is from 1935 to 1998, when I was 63.'
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908878231/
Feb '21. Just out, my latest verse collection, 'The Last Waltz' (Cornovia Press), available from Amazon.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908878223/
Also published, July 2020: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908878185
'Corona man', a fictional verse journal of the plague year 2020. See Amazon for details.
[b']Being incompetent at gardening, creating new recipes or assembling vast jigsaw puzzles, I wrote this fictional verse memoir.'
John Trenear, an 84 year old widower, lives alone in a bleak London tower block. He has turned away from a world he finds alien, its customs and beliefs so different from the Christian simplicities of his Cornish childhood. He tweets not, neither does he watch TV. Consequently, when the coronavirus strikes and lockdown is imposed, he has no idea what is happening; Corona to him means only the fizzy soft drink he enjoyed as a child. On VE Day there are no Corona bottles being opened with an explosion of fizz, as they had in the merry street party he remembers: indeed the streets below his flat are incomprehensibly empty. But the day brings him added confusion and distress, for it appears that something called a ‘hate crime’ has been committed. Corona Man, a study of old age, confusion and isolation, is both very poignant and very funny.
Feb 2019.
Simon & Schuster have published my translation of Pushkin's first, long masterpiece RUSLAN AND LUDMILA, in the UK and USA.
2018.
The British Library has acquired my Archive. Earlier material is at Wisconsin University.
Looking for a really handsome elegant book to give to a poetry lover? The Folio Society produced my translations of Akhmatova (Anna Akhmatova: Selected Poems) in 2016. With photographs of the great poet.
Other publications include:
HUNTERS IN THE SNOW (Cornovia Press). My fourteenth novel, and my first for fourteen years. It is set in Vienna just before the First World War.
Poetry collections: MRS ENGLISH AND OTHER WOMEN and FAMILY BIBLE, both from Francis Boutle Publishers. From the same publishers my translation of Pushkin's ONEGIN.
I can be heard reading some of my poetry on the Poetry Archive. poetryarchive.org/poet/d-m-thomas.
I SHALL BE READING WITH OTHERS AT THE TREMOUGH CAMPUS, PENRYN, 7PM, FRIDAY DEC.10.
IT IS A FRANCIS BOUTLE LAUNCH OF 'FLIGHT AND SMOKE', FOUR MODERN CORNISH PLAYS AND CORNISH SHORT STORIES. THE PLAYS INCLUDE 'HELL FIRE CORNER', NOW PUBLISHED FOR THE FIRST TIME.
I've had the interesting experience this autumn (2010) of re-reading all my novels. Interesting, simply because I never re-read my novels once they are published; so in most cases I was reading them for the first time in 20-30 years. you will find my reaction in the NOVELS section, and in the separate pieces relating to each book.
Published autumn 2010:
'FLIGHT AND SMOKE' (Francis Boutle Publishers).
'"Flight and Smoke" is a varied, funny, and moving book, never dull, occasionally shocking. Every poem offers something new.'
--Times Literary Supplement
and...
'FREUD... off the record' (Watkins/Duncan Baird Publishing). My fictional interviews of the great man.
This is part of a series designed to make the subject comprehensible to the layman, in an entertaining way. It was fun imagining I was interviewing Freud. He even interpreted my dreams. This short book has a foreward by Edward De Bono.
Vintage have brought out my selected Anna Akhmatova. This was previously published by Penguin. This edition has a foreward by Carol Ann Duffy. It actually came out in 2009, but I didn't know about it till a friend told me she was reading it... Vintage had neglected to tell me it was out or send me a complimentary copy! Has an attractive Art Nouveau-ish cover.
This edition has 20 fewer poems in that the Everyman Pocket Poets edition, but it does contain my original introduction, which the Everyman (crazily) omitted.
My latest poetry collection, 'Two Countries', and my new translation of Pushkin's verse novel 'Onegin', will be published by Francis Boutle Publishers in the spring of 2011.
The same publisher will shortly be bringing out --in 'Four Modern Cornish Plays' ed. Alan Kent-- my play 'Hell Fire Corner'.
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Luke Bedford's orchestral piece Outblaze the Sky was performed at the Proms on 28 July. According to the commentary: 'The title is inspired by the composer’s own reading - a re-working of a phrase in D.M. Thomas’ The White Hotel, which he read whilst composing this work. Bedford was particularly inspired by the ‘dreamlike and highly charged’ poem near the start of the novel, which seemed in certain ways to have parallels with the music that he was writing.'
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908878231/
Feb '21. Just out, my latest verse collection, 'The Last Waltz' (Cornovia Press), available from Amazon.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908878223/
Also published, July 2020: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908878185
'Corona man', a fictional verse journal of the plague year 2020. See Amazon for details.
[b']Being incompetent at gardening, creating new recipes or assembling vast jigsaw puzzles, I wrote this fictional verse memoir.'
John Trenear, an 84 year old widower, lives alone in a bleak London tower block. He has turned away from a world he finds alien, its customs and beliefs so different from the Christian simplicities of his Cornish childhood. He tweets not, neither does he watch TV. Consequently, when the coronavirus strikes and lockdown is imposed, he has no idea what is happening; Corona to him means only the fizzy soft drink he enjoyed as a child. On VE Day there are no Corona bottles being opened with an explosion of fizz, as they had in the merry street party he remembers: indeed the streets below his flat are incomprehensibly empty. But the day brings him added confusion and distress, for it appears that something called a ‘hate crime’ has been committed. Corona Man, a study of old age, confusion and isolation, is both very poignant and very funny.
Feb 2019.
Simon & Schuster have published my translation of Pushkin's first, long masterpiece RUSLAN AND LUDMILA, in the UK and USA.
2018.
The British Library has acquired my Archive. Earlier material is at Wisconsin University.
Looking for a really handsome elegant book to give to a poetry lover? The Folio Society produced my translations of Akhmatova (Anna Akhmatova: Selected Poems) in 2016. With photographs of the great poet.
Other publications include:
HUNTERS IN THE SNOW (Cornovia Press). My fourteenth novel, and my first for fourteen years. It is set in Vienna just before the First World War.
Poetry collections: MRS ENGLISH AND OTHER WOMEN and FAMILY BIBLE, both from Francis Boutle Publishers. From the same publishers my translation of Pushkin's ONEGIN.
I can be heard reading some of my poetry on the Poetry Archive. poetryarchive.org/poet/d-m-thomas.
I SHALL BE READING WITH OTHERS AT THE TREMOUGH CAMPUS, PENRYN, 7PM, FRIDAY DEC.10.
IT IS A FRANCIS BOUTLE LAUNCH OF 'FLIGHT AND SMOKE', FOUR MODERN CORNISH PLAYS AND CORNISH SHORT STORIES. THE PLAYS INCLUDE 'HELL FIRE CORNER', NOW PUBLISHED FOR THE FIRST TIME.
I've had the interesting experience this autumn (2010) of re-reading all my novels. Interesting, simply because I never re-read my novels once they are published; so in most cases I was reading them for the first time in 20-30 years. you will find my reaction in the NOVELS section, and in the separate pieces relating to each book.
Published autumn 2010:
'FLIGHT AND SMOKE' (Francis Boutle Publishers).
'"Flight and Smoke" is a varied, funny, and moving book, never dull, occasionally shocking. Every poem offers something new.'
--Times Literary Supplement
and...
'FREUD... off the record' (Watkins/Duncan Baird Publishing). My fictional interviews of the great man.
This is part of a series designed to make the subject comprehensible to the layman, in an entertaining way. It was fun imagining I was interviewing Freud. He even interpreted my dreams. This short book has a foreward by Edward De Bono.
Vintage have brought out my selected Anna Akhmatova. This was previously published by Penguin. This edition has a foreward by Carol Ann Duffy. It actually came out in 2009, but I didn't know about it till a friend told me she was reading it... Vintage had neglected to tell me it was out or send me a complimentary copy! Has an attractive Art Nouveau-ish cover.
This edition has 20 fewer poems in that the Everyman Pocket Poets edition, but it does contain my original introduction, which the Everyman (crazily) omitted.
My latest poetry collection, 'Two Countries', and my new translation of Pushkin's verse novel 'Onegin', will be published by Francis Boutle Publishers in the spring of 2011.
The same publisher will shortly be bringing out --in 'Four Modern Cornish Plays' ed. Alan Kent-- my play 'Hell Fire Corner'.
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Luke Bedford's orchestral piece Outblaze the Sky was performed at the Proms on 28 July. According to the commentary: 'The title is inspired by the composer’s own reading - a re-working of a phrase in D.M. Thomas’ The White Hotel, which he read whilst composing this work. Bedford was particularly inspired by the ‘dreamlike and highly charged’ poem near the start of the novel, which seemed in certain ways to have parallels with the music that he was writing.'
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