Amoeba Dick
My blogs
| Occupation | Literary fiction |
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| Location | Bristol, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | This blog is a presentational platform for my writing, which consists in high burlesque literary fiction & drama, formal verse, and analytical philosophy. More detail:- (a) Novels - My Bristolian series consists in three completed novels, viz. my Moby Dick parody Amoeba Dick, my Mayor of Casterbridge parody Pretty Poli, and my Ulysses/Odyssey parody Odour Issues. I'm presently writing Helix Folt the Conservative, which is a parody of George Elliot's Felix Holt the Radical. (b) Poetry - My verse is almost entirely in iambic pentameter. Thus my 155 sonnet collection, and the Montpeliad, my 620 line heroic couplet satire of Bristolian degeneracy. I've won a couple of prizes for sonnets, and the Montpeliad got published in Bristol 24/7 in June 2016. (c) Drama - my Jacobean revenge tragedy The Senseless Counterfeit, in iambic pentameter like my verse, is presently in pre-production. (d) Short stories - a number of examples are posted on this blog. A couple of these have been published in a couple of places. (d) My philosophy PhD thesis. |
| Interests | Classical literary fiction, history, wicket-keeping & batting, chess, running, weight-training, football, analytical philosophy, foreign languages. |
| Favorite books | Ulysses, anything by Dickens, Austen, Trollope, Scott Fitzgerald, Conrad, Greene, Proust, Flaubert, Dostoyevsky, George Elliot, Vasily Grossman, Tolstoy, St Aubyn, Anthony Powell, Thackeray, Waugh, Laurence Sterne, anyone called Bronte, etc etc. What about poets though? Shakespeare, Marlowe, Pope, Dryden, Roy Campbell, T.S.Elliot, E.Pound, Wallace Stevens, Ben Jonson, Baudelaire, Virgil, Ovid, Horace. |