Awen Publications

<p>When it comes to myths and legends of Australasia, A.W. Reed is a ubiquitous author – and equally ubiquitous as his own publisher. Myths and Legends of the Pacific extends his range across the whole of the Pacific, covering nearly &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2018/07/12/myths-and-legends-of-the-pacific/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

Jay Ramsay has made a short film about his experience of the cancer journey, including some of the poetry it has inspired. He was due to...

We walked alone together up the steep hillside, finding our own desire paths through the boggy heathland, climbing our own mental...

Chrissy Derbyshire is a master of style – lyrical and accessible, archly ironic, and yet at the same time charged with the sensual...

Jay will be reading from the book at Hawkwood College, Stroud, on 20 April as part of an event with Andrew Harvey on the theme of sacred...

by Jay Ramsay The real story, which is surely the environment now, is being masked by a puppet show diverting our attention from what...

<p>Mary Magdalene has always seemed special. It’s difficult to fit together the different resurrection appearances of Jesus into a coherent narrative, but one thing is clear in the Easter story as I received it: Mary Magdalene is the first person &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2018/04/10/mary-magdalene-the-movie/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Daniel Odier is a novelist and his spiritual memoir Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love has something of the feel of a novel. I found it much more readable than some other books in this genre, such as those &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2018/02/11/daniel-odiers-tantric-quest/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Raylene Ramsay’s monograph The Literatures of the French Pacific: Reconfiguring Hybridity has a misleading title. The book deals not with the French Pacific as a whole, but specifically with the French-speaking country of New Caledonia. I can only think this &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2018/01/30/the-literatures-of-new-caledonia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>The Spy Who Loved Me was the only one of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels that I didn’t reread the second time round, in my early thirties. The reason I didn’t was probably the same reason the critics had panned &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2018/01/17/ian-flemings-the-spy-who-loved-me/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>