LOST & WAITING A genre-bending Chilean adventure The discovery of a Victorian journal sets in motion a high-octane adventure fusing past, present and myth. When Evangeline comes across a Victorian plant hunter’s journal at Kew, it is the sign she’s been waiting for. Its author, Edwin ‘Chile’ Morgan, claims to have discovered a living myth: […]
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Lilith (1889) by John Collier Tomoe Gozen (1845-8) by Utagawa Hiroshige (poem by Kôkô Tennô) Annunciation (1961) by Mati Klarwein Parasites on Beech Trees, Chile (1880) by Marianne North, (c) Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (book); Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation Slab from the Amazonomachy frieze from the Mausoleum at Halikarnassos Saturn Devouring His Son (1823) Goya
Magic(al) Realism
What it is, what it’s not, its origins, characteristics and exponents Magic Realism is a mode of literature most often associated with Latin American authors, in particular, Isabel Allende and Gabriel García Márquez, and is taken to mean the incorporation of mythical and/or fantastical elements in an otherwise realistic narrative. But this definition doesn’t tell […]
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My writing is influenced by mythology; the tales we tell ourselves, why we create myths, how we respond to the myths we hear. Interests Trees, plant diversity, human-plant interaction, climate change, the environment, mythology, linguistics, writer-reader interaction. I love to read Fiction (short and long): magic realism, myth, folklore, weird fiction, metafiction, off-kilter realities, genre-bending, […]
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