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  • The Labours of Charles E.
    Ian Gouge
    Charles E. is not well. A ’man of letters’ and regarded by some as a ’National Treasure’, there are elements in his past which surely disqualify such an accolade - even if his somewhat unconventional beginning adds a little spice to his legend.Whether or not he has reached the bottom of his creative well, Charles has decided to set the record straight, to relate the narrative o...
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    13,30 €

  • The Big Frog Theory
    Ian Gouge
    What do you most need when facing the complete disintegration of the life you have been leading? Where does the loss of your job and the betrayal of your wife lead you?Well, in Neville’s case to a small tea shop at the foot of the Malvern hills. But if he has gone there for some peace, some solitude, the chance to assess his situation and get his life back in order, then he is ...
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    15,43 €

  • New Contexts
    Ian Gouge
    In this, the seventh edition of the New Contexts anthologies, the quality of the submissions, their breadth of subject matter and style, remain joyously undiminished. It is a heady mix. And whilst it would be possible to pick out certain themes - those ’big’ topics which have tormented and challenged writers for hundreds of years - to do so would perhaps be unfair. Every piece ...
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    11,49 €

  • So, you think you’re a Writer
    Ian Gouge
    So, you think you’re a writer?Well, quite possibly you are. Indeed you may be a very good one. Or you believe you are reasonably talented, but deep down you’re not too sure that you are as ’good’ as you’d like to be.Perhaps you don’t know if what you’re trying to write is the thing you should be writing; perhaps you’re feeling disheartened by years of competition and Agent reje...
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    16,02 €

  • Dust, dancing
    Ian Gouge
    In Ian Gouge’s eclectic new collection, Dust, dancing, many of the protagonists find themselves thwarted: by ambition, by love, by old age. Interlaced with occasional victories, they experience both avoidable and unavoidable setbacks: the man tattooing his life history on his back; the woman fantasising about a Hollywood star; the man fired from his job; the actress believing s...
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    13,43 €

  • The Red Tie
    Ian Gouge
    'Books talk to the inner person, the secret person; they can make direct contact with all those subterranean feelings and desires you speak of.'Vincent edits books. It is modest and quiet occupation - yet one which is about to be thrown into turmoil thanks to the arrival of woman, her gift to him, and the words of his old mentor: 'it’s not what we keep out of a book that counts...
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    10,44 €

  • New Contexts
    Ian Gouge
    Curating a collection such as New Contexts provides its editor with an interesting conundrum in that their job is not simply to trawl through all the submissions in order to find pieces they like. Of course personal preference plays a large part in the selection process, but the curator also has a responsibility to try and recognise the well-written unique and novel - and which...
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    11,44 €

  • Pebbles on the Strand
    Ian Gouge
    Pebbles on the Strand is an international collection of contemporary short stories which follows on from our 2022 volume, Making Marks in the Sand.The stories in this collection explore a vast range of human emotion and experience: humour, loss, grief, alienation, revenge, exploration, drama, and myth.No two stories are alike. A veritable Cornucopia for readers. ...
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    11,11 €

  • 17 Alma Road
    Ian Gouge
    A house filled with history and secrets is more than mere bricks and mortar; not only a mirror on the past, it can also be a window to the future.'Ian Gouge has written a delightful novel that reminded me of the writing style of Virginia Woolf and Ernest Hemingway. In my opinion this novel deserves to be up there with these literary greats.' - Laura-Louise Acock'masterful..soul...
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    12,64 €

  • New Contexts
    Ian Gouge
    Whenever I pull together an anthology such as this, I am inevitably struck by the quality and variety of both the fiction and poetry being written today. Curating an anthology such as this is therefore both a joy and a challenge; after all, it is not easy to distil a couple of hundred pieces down into a manageable number to form a collection (in the present case, seventy-four p...
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    12,40 €

  • Crash
    Ian Gouge
    What happens during the last thirty minutes of your life as you struggle to wake from sleep one final time?Does the entirety of your life indeed ’flash before your eyes’, or are there just a few random incidents and moments which insist on being replayed and resolved?And when these too eventually begin to dissolve, what then...?Attempting to explore a fresh and flexible poetic ...
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    5,67 €

  • Not the Sonnets
    Ian Gouge
    Imagine tackling the entirety of Shakespeare’s sonnet cannon with the aim of creating a contemporary and modern interpretation of the poems both in terms of subject and form.Imagine starting where most poets end - with the rhyme - and beginning each new poem by stripping out every single word from each of the Sonnets except the last one on each line.Imagine that in tackling the...
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    11,16 €

  • New Contexts
    Ian Gouge
    Welcome to the fourth edition of our New Contexts anthology. Once again we have been able to harvest an eclectic selection of contemporary poetry and short prose from around the world. Authors in this collection are geographically spread across the United Kingdom and the United States of America, as well as Western Europe and Australasia.In curating these collections I am alway...
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    10,63 €

  • Ian Gouge - Selected Poems (1976 - 2022)
    Ian Gouge
    At a recent reading event, I was asked which of my collections was my ’best book’. It was an innocent enough question, designed to aid a purchasing decision. It was also an unfair question. Any marginal preference I may have for one or the other is inevitably dwarfed by the knowledge that there are good pieces in all my volumes of poetry and that, in expressing a preference, a ...
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    10,47 €

  • Making Marks in the Sand
    Ian Gouge
    The nature of relationships dominates this international collection of contemporary short stories; not just relationships between people, but also between individuals and their pasts and, in consequence, their potential futures.The British and Continental American authors of 'Making Marks in the Sand' explore the nature of love, regret and loss, peeling back the veneer on every...
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    11,14 €

  • Shrapnel from a Writing Life
    Ian Gouge
    Above all else, this is the story of a journey.Over the last thirty-seven years or so, across a number of hand-written books, I have been keeping what might be termed a record; although on reflection, even the word ’record’ is something of a misnomer.Relating to my ambition ’to be a Writer’, the notebooks offer a compendium of thoughts, ideas, plans, ruminations, decisions (nee...
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    16,84 €

  • New Contexts
    Ian Gouge
    In many ways making the selection of pieces to include in New Contexts: 2 was a much more difficult task than it had been for the inaugural edition of New Contexts. This was largely due to three factors.The first was the breadth of submissions. For New Contexts: 2 the geographical spread of contributors was much greater with many more offerings from the United States, and other...
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    12,42 €

  • On Parliament Hill
    Ian Gouge
    Her voice is a trigger; a voice which forces Neil to relive the crises and failures of his past - one which offers him the possibility of a positive new future. But before he can decide on what he wants the life ahead of him to look like - and her role in it - he must pass judgement on himself.Ian Gouge’s novels focus on individuals who are trying to come to terms with their hi...
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    18,72 €

  • The Homelessness of a Child
    Ian Gouge
    By the time Ian Gouge went to university he had already lived in seventeen different places - houses, pre-fabs, flats, rooms of one sort or another - and all within the environs of the same two towns: Portsmouth and Gosport, on the south coast of England. No single location more than four miles from the next, between some you could have measured the distance in hundreds of yard...
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    10,21 €

  • New Contexts
    Ian Gouge
    Globally the number of people being creative with language is truly extraordinary. While each of us will have our individual reasons for writing, many of them common, where the majority truly come together is in the desire to be read.There are lots of outlets for writers, contributing to an ever-expanding and increasingly densely populated literary landscape, and people continu...
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    11,49 €

  • A Pattern of Sorts
    Ian Gouge
    We often encounter difficulty when trying to reconcile our memories of events with what actually happened. In the almost inevitable mis-match, our mind plays tricks on us, and what we have recently learned and how we have recently lived gets in the way and colours the past. Pressed to recall his own life, the challenge of juggling myth and reality is dangerously fraught for Luk...
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    11,23 €

  • Triple Measures
    Ian Gouge / K M Miller / Tom Furniss
    Once members of a writers’ group at the University of Southampton and leading lights in the founding of an Arts magazine there, K.M. Miller, Ian Gouge and Tom Furniss joined forces back then to produce ‘Play for Three Hands’, a joint collection of their poetry. Having taken divergent - but successful - paths since then, their ongoing commitment to writing poetry sees them reuni...
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    10,59 €

  • The Myths of Native Trees
    Ian Gouge
    Myths attach themselves to just about everything. This is certainly true in the case of English native trees. Pagan, mystical or religious, some of these are well-known, but others are more obscure.In “The Myths of Native Trees”, Ian Gouge uses fragments from some of these myths as the basis for a suite of poems which are in turn mystical, lyrical.We build our own myths too. My...
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    12,29 €

  • The Opposite of Remembering
    Ian Gouge
    Liam is haunted by his age and the history it forces upon him. Yet he is also plagued by the need to make more - to generate new memories to recall later, before it gets too late, especially when his wife of over thirty years turns his world upside down, as does the woman he meets in an anonymous hotel dining room.Against a background of domestic parental turmoil, his daughter ...
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    12,56 €

  • At Maunston Quay
    Ian Gouge
    Life weaves its magic of triumphs and disappointments everywhere, and often those burdened with more than their fair share of tragedy can feel lost and alone. Even in a quiet backwater like Maunston Quay people struggle to come to terms with their personal suffering and grief - yet Maunston Quay may offer the kind of second chances that gives hope to everyone. ...
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    15,57 €

  • First-time Visions of Earth from Space
    Ian Gouge
    When people escaped gravity and started to travel in space, astronauts were amazed by the view when they looked back at the Earth. There are many photographs of such individual moments of wonder - and captured alongside these images come anecdotes recording the difficulty the astronauts encountered in trying to describe what they were seeing. This fascinates me. Not just the in...
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    7,47 €

  • After the Rehearsals
    Ian Gouge
    Having received praise for his recent work ‘Human Archaeology’ - “a compelling exploration of the meaning of memory and history”, “an interesting, special form of poetic plate-spinning” - Ian Gouge’s latest book is a shift into new territory. 'After The Rehearsals' is a prose poem narrative in which the poems - although they stand on their own - are akin to chapters in a work o...
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    11,08 €

  • Degrees of Separation
    Ian Gouge
    We are all connected. There are links - like links in a chain - that join each of us, everyone to everyone else.'Degrees of Separation' is a series of short stories, each tied to the next it through one of its two characters. The book’s invisible thread weaves its way across geography and time until the circle is made complete when a character from the first story appears again...
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    13,22 €

  • An Infinity of Mirrors
    Ian Gouge
    Given his profession as a Historian, it was inevitable that Mark would find himself one day writing the biography of his late father, the acclaimed author Charles Packard. As his biographer, Mark is blessed with a wealth of material: first-hand experience, his father’s own work, the testimonies of his Aunt, and Charles’ friends, colleagues - and enemies.Yet what he uncovers is ...
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    19,01 €

  • Punctuations from History
    Ian Gouge
    “Punctuations from History” is Ian Gouge’s latest collection of poems, a volume that in various ways explores our place in, and relation to, history. Whilst there are similarities in theme to his collection “Human Archaeology” (which debuted at the 2017 Ripon Poetry Festival), the threads tying these pieces together are looser, more fluid.In an unusual departure, “Punctuations ...
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    8,62 €


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