The Gawain Poet is chiefly known for his epic Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It's a masterpiece of courtliness and mysticism and not...

A while back I worked out a plot for a novel that I thought I might write. That story turned on the discovery of a long lost manuscript,...

'I understood that the art of memory that he had was a thing of the past, that he was amongst the last of his kind. The writing of the...

There, spread open on the table, were books, and not the tally-books father used for keeping count of the money and his stock. There was...

Speaking for myself I only know that every dream that happens is real and true for as long as it lasts, and that it lingers a little when...

Here are a few of the texts that served both inspirationally and informatively. The one at top-left was fascinating in how it tracked...

As usual, the project changed as it went along In the beginning was a guess about what a second poem by the Gawain Poet might look like. ...

The Green Knight, Directed, written, edited & produced by David Lowery. Starring Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander, Joel Edgerton, Sarita...

Two works more than any others -- apart from the medieval poetry -- provided inspiration. But not recently. I first read T. H .White's...

The first page of the manuscript of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, currently held in The British Library. There are four poems bound...

A while back I worked out a plot for a novel that I thought I might write. That story turned on the discovery of a long lost manuscript,...