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<p>I’m conscious this blog tends to wander off a bit from its declared focus on the exotic and the prehistoric. So let’s get back to basics – and a look at another prehistoric movie classic. I never saw this film &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/08/26/creatures-the-world-forgot-and-maybe-for-a-reason/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

Hermes, the messenger god, will be celebrated in a ‘power-poem’ presentation at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution...

<p>I was wrong to think that the guy and the girl always had equal billing in the title of the original comic series: Valérian et Laureline was for most of its history Valérian, agent spatio-temporel. But I still reckon the &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/08/07/valerian-and-laureline-and-the-dream-of-paradise/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Fantasy as a dedicated genre didn’t really exist in Greece till very recently. Many of the stories gathered in The Dedalus Book of Greek Fantasy, dating from the 19th century to the turn of the 21st, are by mainstream literary &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/07/31/the-dedalus-book-of-greek-fantasy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

by Kirsty Hartsiotis When I first saw the cover image for Charlotte Hussey’s Glossing the Spoils, that’s exactly what I thought we had....

<p>Northrop Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism is a landmark of literary criticism to which I found my way via its influence on the Tolkien scholarship of Tom Shippey and Margaret Anne Doody’s superb book The True Story of the Novel. Frye’s &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/07/23/myths-genres-and-forms-in-northrop-fryes-anatomy-of-criticism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

By Irina Kuzminsky June 3, Waterloo Festival, St John’s Waterloo On a spectacularly sunny English summer day some of Britain’s best poets...

<p>I was keen to read David Mitchell’s new novel because I loved Cloud Atlas. Like that masterpiece, The Bone Clocks comprises six novella-length sections each narrated by a different character in a different time period. But these narratives are closer &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/07/02/david-mitchells-the-bone-clocks/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

LIVING A WRITER’S LIFE an evening with Devon poet & author Roselle Angwin BookStop event at The Bedford Hotel, Tavistock, Devon, Friday...

<p>If, like me, you love myth and folklore, you may know Lewis Spence as the author of numerous books, in the early twentieth century, about the mythology of different parts of the world. I find his books more readable and useful &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/06/28/lewis-spence-and-the-problem-of-lemuria/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>