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S.D. Evans
Jan 11, 20241 min read
The Gawain poet
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...
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S.D. Evans
Nov 14, 20221 min read
Sometimes a story
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,...
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S.D. Evans
Jul 19, 20221 min read
Art of memory
'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...
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S.D. Evans
Jun 17, 20221 min read
Shortened quills, a pot of ink
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...
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S.D. Evans
Jun 8, 20221 min read
Dream the myth onwards
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...
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S.D. Evans
Jun 7, 20221 min read
A Tableful of Texts
Here are a few of the texts that served both inspirationally and informatively. The one at top-left was fascinating in how it tracked...
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S.D. Evans
May 13, 20222 min read
The Green Maiden Project
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. ...
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S.D. Evans
May 13, 20227 min read
The Green Knight on Film
The Green Knight, Directed, written, edited & produced by David Lowery. Starring Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander, Joel Edgerton, Sarita...
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S.D. Evans
May 13, 20222 min read
Inspirations
Two works more than any others -- apart from the medieval poetry -- provided inspiration. But not recently. I first read T. H .White's...
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S.D. Evans
May 13, 20221 min read
The Green knight original images
The first page of the manuscript of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, currently held in The British Library. There are four poems bound...
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S.D. Evans
May 13, 20221 min read
Sometimes a story
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,...
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