Tag Archives: The Runiad

The Runiad – Book 8 – The Mare with the Beautiful Eyebrows

Book 8 of the Runiad is now on the Heyzine Link here. And an extract from Book 8 is now published in The Fortnightly Review Which means I am now one third of my way to completion of all 24 … Continue reading

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The Runiad – book 7 – Agape or Eros

Book 7 of the Runiad is now available. And an extract is published in The Fortnightly Review here. As usual, the entire epic so far (now books 1 to 8) is available on this Heyzine flipbook link

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Art and Anger

We seem to have entered into a time of lean years. I feel that the horrors of our time cannot be ignored. Seeking to deal with my anxiety in art, I created several slide-show videos using drawings I made with … Continue reading

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The Runiad

Welcome to The Runiad This is the site on my journal for the epic I started writing in 2023. There will be 24 books to it, making it the length of the Odyssey. It will take me several years to … Continue reading

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DURGA

A sculpture of eight-armed ‘Durga Mahishasuramadini’, holding weapons, slaying the demon Mahisasura, emerging out of buffalo. The sculpture dates back to 10th-11th Century CE from the hills of Almora, Uttarakhand & was repatriated from USA in 2018. This is a … Continue reading

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LINKS TO NEW POEMS, ESSAYS AND REVIEWS

(This post last updated 1 January 2026) Ten Poems from Shorter Poems 1969-2022 published in The High Window. A Review of Autumn, plus an interview in CHAINLINK JOURNAL Review of Collected Longer Poems by Jennifer Johnson published in London Grip, … Continue reading

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