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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 Luke - especially given the story of his remarkable emotional high, an...

The hill country of West Somerset is famous for its association with the Romantic poets, Coleridge and Wordsworth, whose Lyrical Ballads (1798) emerged out of their experience of the area and revolutionised English poetry. It was 130 years later that a young teacher, Berta Lawrence, came to live in the same part of the county. Over the next seventy years, inspired by its landscape and legends, she wrote a succession of books and novels. She al...

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 reunite forty years later to produce their second joint collection, 'Tri...

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 fights her own demons to try and make sense of her place in a disin...

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. Myths about our past - or our imagined past - and about our relations...

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 unexpected, revealing elements of his father's life that resonate w...

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.

Collected together for the first time, Ian Gouge's three novellas: Losing Moby Dick, Writing to Gisella, and Riding the Escalators.LOSING MOBY DICKBooks are, for many people, precious things. They become host not only to the words within them, but to individual history and memory, thoughts and feelings. So when Jack finds he has lost his old copy of "Moby Dick" he is suddenly knocked off-balance. He knows that it should not really matter that ...

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 of fiction. Reading them sequentially draws the reader into the live...

Secrets & Wisdom' started life in 2016 as a project with a specific design. The idea was to write a series of short stories, each based on one of the traditional Olympian Gods and on one or more of their individual characteristics. In addition, each story would contain within it either a 'secret' held close by the protagonist, or the demonstration - or otherwise! - of 'wisdom' / self-knowledge in some form or other.Over time, as the original p...