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In the Dirt of the Post-Lyric: A Collaborative Cycle by Robert Blake, Connie Beauchamp, Gerri Dixon, Simon Gregory, Mark Hall, Erwin Hass, Tina Hyett, Emma Liukunas, Mikaela Moriarty, Peter Philpott, Bradley Tabor & Spencer Termott. new listing

This is a sequence of poems written from the Winter Solstice 2006 through to Twelfth Night 2008, and by a variety of persons. The complete text is hosted on Calaméo. The Great Works page provides some explanation and the links to the various contributions to the text.

Issue 16

Paul Holman, THE MEMORY OF THE DRIFT: Book Six: A NEW WALKING AGE

Paul Holman's most recent book is The Memory of the Drift – Books I-IV (Shearsman, 2007), which combines a revised text of The Memory of the Drift (Invisible Books, 2001), with three sequences all on Great Works: In the Common Era, Dog Mercury and Vicinal. To these can be added two other sequences available only on Great Works: Book Five: Tara Morgana (now with a revised text) and Book Six: A New Walking Age (newly published here in a provisional text).

Paul is also the author of The Fabulist: selected poems 1984-1991 (Leaves/Scales, 1991) and was co-editor of Invisible Books in the 1990s (now engaged in mainly online bookselling). He has poems in the recently published anthology Datura: An anthology of esoteric poetry, ed Ruby Sara (Scarlet Imprint Books, 2010). He also has a sequence Magnetic Sword published on the ezine Silver Star: a Journal of New Magick, and an uncollected sequence on Great Works. There is a response to his writing by Peter Philpott on Geometer.

Ralph Hawkins, The Poems of Abakan Tartar

Ralph Hawkins has been writing poetry since the late 1970s when he was one of a number of radical poets gathered at the University of Essex. He now lives on the Essex coast at Brightlingsea. Of many publications the more substantial are Tell Me No More and Tell Me (Grosseteste, 1981), At Last Away (Galloping Dog Press, 1988), The Coiling Dragon / The Scarlet Bird / The White Tiger / A Blue & Misted Shroud (Equipage, 2000), The MOON, The Chief Hairdresser (highlights) (Shearsman, 2004) and Gone to Marzipan (Shearsman, 2009).

Maximilian Hildebrand, Kylix Poems + four poems

Maximilian Hildebrand has completed an MA in creative writing at Royal Holloway, with Andrew Motion and Jo Shapcott, with a selection of poems printed in their anthology, Bedford Sq: v. 4 (John Murray, 2010), and a poem printed in the Guardian, Lekythos. He will also be published in the anthology Day of Roses, coming from the Day of Roses readings in Shoreditch. He has also published an early collection, What happened to my socks?

Daniele Pantano, Translation from the German of Seventy Eight Early Notes for a Biography of an Unknown Swiss Poet

Daniele Pantano is a Swiss poet, translator, critic, and editor born of Sicilian and German parentage in Langenthal (Canton of Berne). His individual poems, essays, and reviews, as well as his translations from the German by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Georg Trakl and Robert Walser, have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous magazines, journals, and anthologies, including Absinthe: New European Writing, The Baltimore Review, The Cortland Review, Gradiva: International Journal of Italian Poetry, Guernica Magazine, Italian Americana, Jacket, The Mailer Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, Versal, POETENLADEN – neue Literatur im Netz, Poet's Corner – Fieralingue, The Other Voices International Project, Arch Literary Journal, White Whale Review and 32 Poems Magazine. Pantano's most recent works include In an Abandoned Room: Selected Poems by Georg Trakl (Erbacce Press, 2008), The Possible Is Monstrous: Selected Poems by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, and The Oldest Hands in the World (both from Black Lawrence Press/Dzanc Books, 2010). His forthcoming books include Oppressive Light: Selected Poems by Robert Walser and The Collected Works of Georg Trakl, both from Black Lawrence Press/Dzanc Books, as well as Mass Graves (XIX–XXII) (The Knives Forks & Spoons Press). Pantano has taught at the University of South Florida and served as the Visiting Poet-in-Residence at Florida Southern College. He divides his time between Switzerland, the United States, and England, where he's Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for Creative Writing at Edge Hill University. His website is daniele pantano.ch

Julie Sampson, four poems

Julie Sampson has been published in Shearsman, Equinox, The Journal and on the Agenda website. She is a member of the Fire River Poets. In addition, she edited Mary, Lady Chudleigh: Selected Poems last year, for Shearsman; has just had a paper on Anne Dowriche in The Devonshire Association's Report and Transactions and keeps an occasional blog, Scrapblog: A Writer from the South-West.

David Bircumshaw, eight poems

David Bircumshaw is resident of Leicester, poet, web publisher and organiser of occasional poetic events in King Lear's multiethnic city (often within Leicester Poetry Society). His website Spectare's Web hosts issues of his occasional online magazine A Chide's Alphabet, and major online collection or single works: A Stapled Napkin, Painting Without Numbers, Parousia, The Cabinet of Dr Spectare and The Ghost Machine. His most recent book is The Animal Subsides (Arrowhead Press, 2004), his blog is Groggydays (also contributing to poneme), and he tweets at http://twitter.com/bucketshave. He is a national treasure!

Rupert Loydell, four poems

Rupert Loydell is Senior Lecturer in English with Creative Writing at University College Falmouth, and the editor of Stride and With magazines. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including the recent Boombox from Shearsman (2009) and The Fantasy Kid from Salt (2010). A collaboration with Peter Gillies, A Music Box of Snakes, is out and about from Knives, Forks & Spoons Press, 2010. He edited From Hepworth's Garden Out: poems about painters and St. Ives for Shearsman (2010), and Troubles Swapped for Something Fresh, an anthology of manifestos and unmanifestos, for Salt (2009). He lives in a creekside village with his family and far too many CDs and books. In his spare time he is hyperactive. But to very good effect!

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Adam Fieled, from Equations

Adam Fieled is a poet based in Philadelphia. He has released four print books: Opera Bufa (Otoliths, 2007), When You Bit... (Otoliths, 2008), Chimes (Blazevox, 2009), and Apparition Poems (Blazevox, 2010) as well as numerous chaps, e-chaps, and e-books, including Posit (Dusie Press, 2007), Beams (Blazevox, 2007), and The White Album (ungovernable press, 2009). He has work in journals like Tears in the Fence, Great Works, The Argotist Online, Upstairs at Duroc, Jacket, on PennSound, in the &Now Awards Anthology from Lake Forest College Press, and an essay forthcoming in Poetry Salzburg Review from University of Salzburg Press. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he also holds an MFA from New England College and an MA from Temple University, where he is completing his PhD. His poetry blog is Stoning the Devil: "Because culture is a conversation", Adam Fieled: Poetry is largely interviews with poets, he contributes to As/Is blog, runs a major blogzine, P.F.S. Post: Maximum Post-Avant, and also a collaborative blog with Andrew Lundwall, funtime.

Miffy Ryan, Dwelling + Death Rattles

Miffy Ryan's homepage is Miffy Ryan – recent film, performance and prose work 2005–2012. She works at the School of Arts, University of Loughborough.

Jennifer Cooke, five poems

Jennifer Cooke works in the Department of English and Drama, Loughborough University, and has published Legacies of Plague in Literature, Theory and Film (Palgrave, 2009). Recent poetry has been published in Onedit, Quid, Intercapillary Space and Succour, and also has an essay on Keston Sutherland's Hot White Andy in Complicities: British Poetry 1945–2007, eds. Robin Purves and Sam Ladkin (Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2007). She is taking part in Dusie Kollectiv 5.

Catherine Daly, Surplice

Catherine Daly was valedictorian of her class at St. Teresa of Avila High School in a small blue collar city in the American Midwest. An Illinois Scholar at Trinity College and Merit Fellow at Columbia University, Daly has worked as a technical architect, officer in a Wall Street investment bank, engineer supporting the space shuttle orbiter, software developer for motion picture studios, and teacher. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband. She is the author of many extremely innovative collections of poetry (print &/or ebooks): DaDaDa (Salt, 2003), Locket (Tupelo Press, 2005), To Delite and Instruct (blue lion books, 2006), Paper Craft (Moria, 2006), Secret Kitty (Ahadada, 2006), Chanteuse / Cantatrice (factory school, 2007), Kittenhood (Ahadada Books, 2007), Vauxhall (Shearsman Books, 2008). She also runs i.e. Press, and blogs as Dreamer in the Wake, and on the collective blogs Art - Movement - Writing, Re/Search, Translation, Work and As/Is. Her previous work on Great Works is Six in a Mix (Odds).

Stephanie Jane Robinson, Ballad of the Reading Jail

Stephanie Robinson is a poet from Wigan, currently studying for an M.A in creative writing. She lives with her mum, dad, brother and dog Smokey. She had her first poem published at the age of 8 in a small local anthology, since then she has been part of the writing team for Incorporating Writing online magazine, and her contributions included a review of the H.G Wells novella The Time Machine and an interview with journalist and writer Erwin James. She has her own webzine, which is in early stages of publication, for which she is creator and chief editor: The Gothic Pages. She recently won The Lancashire Writing Hub's People's Writing competition for her poem 'Older'.

Mark Smith, five poems

"Mark Smith is an undergraduate student at Edge Hill University studying Creative Writing. He is the 2010 joint-winner of the Edge Hill Rhiannon Evans Poetry Competition for his collection of poems, Pilgrim. Mark currently works as one of the co-editors for online journal The Black Market Review. His power is maximum."

sean burn, from honeysuckled

sean burn is a writer, performer and outsider artist with a growing international reputation. his twenty five poetry films have received many screenings worldwide. the third of his spoken word cd's is speaksong with musician gareth mitchell. skrev press recently published a third full-length collection of his – wings are giving out – (isbn 978-1-904646-56-3). Other texts by him on Great Works are outstaring and trans literations

Angela Gardner, five poems

Angela Gardner was born in Wales and now lives in Australia. She is the winner of the Bauhinia/Idiom 23 Prize for Poetry (2004) and the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Prize for Unpublished Poetry (2006). Her first book, Parts of Speech, was published by University of Queensland Press in 2007. Her latest book, Views of the Hudson, has just been published by Shearsman Press (2009). In 2007, she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship, and in 2008, an Australia Council for the Arts Literature residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Co. Monaghan in Ireland and an Arts Queensland Visual Arts & Crafts Strategy grant. She is a practicing visual artist with works in national and international public collections. Light-trap Press is the website of the artist's book publisher she is involved with, and with lots of material relevant to her also, including her homepage and the full text of Paradise and Inferno, a sequence on American invasion of Iraq, partially published in Parts of Speech. Foam:e is an excellent poetry ezine largely edited by Gardner, and published by Light-trap Press (every St David's Day!)

Susan Adams, five poems

Susan Adams is a Sydney poet who has been published in anthologies, e-zines, and hard copy journals both in Australia and internationally. She has been read on ABC Radio National Poetica. She is also a Research Scientist at the University of Sydney. She has work online on A Guide to Sydney Beaches (Meuse Press, 2009), Eclecticism Ezine and Cyclamens and Swords Publishing.

Mark Dickinson, from Shadows of the Sea

A chapbook entitled Littoral has been published by Prest Roots Press 2007 (reviewed in Intercapillary Space, and poetry has previously appeared in Intercapillary space, Shearsman, the Gig anthology Onsets and the Peek Review. Work is forthcoming in ed Harriet Tarlo, The Ground Aslant: Radical Landscape Poetry (Shearsman 2011). Mark lives and struggles to work in Scarborough, N. Yorkshire, where he was born and educated. He has read, as a "surf poet" at Scarborough's Electric Angel Gallery. His recently completed meditation on and encounter with landscape Trods which Follow is online at Cordite Poetry Review, and is highly recommended.

Matt Bryden, four poems

Born and raised in Beckenham, Matt Bryden is an EFL teacher whose work has taken him to Tuscany, the Czech Republic and Poland. His poems have appeared in Shadowtrain, Peony Moon, Seam, Stand, Poetry Wales and The Warwick Review among others. His pamphlet Night Porter (Templar Poetry, 2010) was one of the winners of the Templar Pamphlet and Collection Prize 2010, and Boxing the Compass, his first full collection, follows in 2011, also with Templar. His blog is Boxing the Compass: Poetry, Matt Bryden.

Sam Howell, five poems

Sam Howell is a Creative Writing and English student at London South Bank University (LSBU) in London and so lives in London currently. He grew up in Stroud, Gloucestershire, and looks forward to moving back there when the opportunity arises. He has had previous publications in South Bank Poetry and Reflections. He is currently working on a collection of sonnets entitled Finding Home.

Chris Hardy, Short of Luck on Short Street

Chris Hardy's poems have been published in numerous magazines and websites – The Rialto, Poetry Review, The North, Tears in the Fence, Acumen, poetrypf.co.uk etc. Some have won prizes eg in the National Poetry Society's Competition. A poem is in the 2009 Forward Prize Anthology. His collection A Moment Of Attention was published in 2008 by Original Plus. He is also a musician: the CD Health To Your Hands is available from www.cdbaby.com. He plays in the trio LiTTLe MACHiNe performing our settings of well known poems, audible at myspace.com/littlemachineuk. He has had many poems previously published on Great Works.

James Price, four poems and a drawing

"In the 1990s I was sitting with a person whose opinion I valued. I showed her some poetry and she said it reminded her of Mervyn Peake. I felt discombobulated and thought of the comment. I continued to work on the structure, deciding to have lessons. The present structure is the result of six months of lessons with poet Laurence Scott and I still felt an outsider at his 'round table'. However I am on my third local anthology apart from this site. My work is Imagist and follows a modernist line with a soupçon of the isolated." There are other poems and drawings by James Price on Great Works.

Martin Stannard, five poems

Martin Stannard is a poet and critic. His books of poetry include A Hundred of Happiness (1995), Difficulties & Exultations (Smith/Doorstop, 2001) and Writing Down the Days: New & Selected Poems (Stride Books, 2001), Coral (Leafe press, 2004) and most recently Faith (Shadowtrain Books, 2009). Conversations With Myself (Stride, 1999) is a collection of reviews and essays published between 1984 and 1998. He was founding editor of the great poetry zine Joe Soap's Canoe, and has various websites extant: Exultations & Difficulties, a blogzine (with older material on a different URL), and Martin Stannard's Home from Home: Infoweb Poet-Heaven. Martin has read his poems at venues throughout the UK and America, such as the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival and St Mark's in New York City. He has taught poetry and creative writing in schools, colleges, and a variety of community-based environments for over twenty years. He has held numerous residencies, ranging from conventional work in schools to a joint project with a ceramics artist in a Lincolnshire village. From 2005 until the summer of 2007, Martin was in China teaching spoken English to university students. In 2007 he returned to the UK to be the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at Nottingham Trent University. Then, in 2008, he again returned to China (hence problems with blogging!). Litter has a special feature on the poetry of Martin Stannard.

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Gareth Farmer, Rise to Order

Gareth Farmer is a DPhil student at the University of Sussex on the poetry and critical writing of Veronica Forrest-Thomson and lives in Hove, East Sussex. He also works in the university library. His publications as a poet are Apply Brakes (pp, 2006), Dawn's Resolve and Dusk Falls (The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2010) and Mock into the Brazen Day (yt communication, 2010). He has also had poems in Axolotl, Quid, Crater and Shearsman Magazine.

Bobby Larsson, Limerick Swing —

Bobby Larsson was born in Skåne, Sweden, in 1980. He studied creative writing at Skurup. His poetry, in English and Swedish, has been published in or is forthcoming from Orbis, Ordkonst, Aireings Poetry Magazine, The Argotist Online, Weirdyear, The Journal, Angelic Dynamo: Poetry and Democracy, D.A.S., Eleutheria – The Scottish Poetry Review, The Glasgow Review, Osprey Journal, Poetry Monthly, Sugar Mule, Zendo and elsewhere. He has recently translated a cycle of poems by the award-winning Swedish poet Ann Jäderlund. He currently lives in Helsingborg, and is working on a novel for children. Bobby Larsson blogs as bobby – this blog is dedicated to the Human Spirit and all Mammals.

S J Fowler, nine poems

S J Fowler (born 1983) has had poetry featured in over 70 publications and his first collections are to be published in early 2011. He is a member of the Writers Forum poetry group and an employee of the British Museum. He edits the Maintenant interview series for 3:am Magazine showcasing contemporary experimental European poets and the Reilluminations series for nthposition online magazine focused on overlooked European poets of the 20th century (both accompanied by translations, many by him). His recent publications are Saint Augustine of Hippo (with the artist David Kelly) (Kitts Press, 2010), Animal Husbandry (with the artist Sian Williams) (Kitts Press, 2010), Fights I: Arthur Abraham (The Knives Forks & Spoons Press, 2010), Klitschko (Zimzalla art object No.6, 2010), Fights III: Antonio Margarito (Arthur Shilling Press, 2010), Poggel Intricate (Writers Forum, 2010) and Fights II: Yuriorkis Gamboa (The Red Ceilings ebook, 2010). Forthcoming are Fights: Cycle I-XX (Veer Books, 2011) and a collection from The Knives Forks & Spoons Press. Innumerable magazine and internet publications, listed and/or linked on his website, sjfowlerpoetry.

Gerard Greenway, three poems

Gerard Greenway was born in 1965. He lives in Oxford with his wife and son. He studied philosophy and literature at the Universities of Warwick and Southampton. He founded with his wife, in 1992, the scholarly journal Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities (Routledge) and in 1996 started an associated book series: Angelaki Humanities (Manchester University Press). He worked since university in academic publishing, but leaving this in 2006 he is now a tutor in philosophy and literature for various programmes at Oxford University. His poems have appeared in Tears in the Fence, Poetry Salzburg Review, Dream Catcher, Angelaki and Salt Magazine.

Austin McCarron, seven poems

Austin McCarron is from New Zealand and has lived in London for many years. His work has appeared in numerous magazines in the UK, eg The Ugly Tree, Fire, Lamport Court, Curlew and Awen, and the anthology Van Gogh's Ear 7: The Supernatural Edition (French Connection Press, 2010).

Sophie Mayer, three poems

Sophie Mayer is the author of Her Various Scalpels (Shearsman, 2009), The Private Parts of Girls (Salt, 2011) and The Cinema of Sally Potter: A Politics of Light (Wallflower, 2009). She currently teaches creative writing at King's College, London, writes about film for Sight & Sound, and is involved with the literary magazines Hand+Star and Chroma: A Queer Literary Journal. Her website is Sophie Mayer, and she blogs to review Delirium's Library. She was interviewed recently on For Books' Sake: Literature by and for independent women.

Stephen Emmerson, Power Pollution + THUD

Stephen Emmerson lives in the North of England and his work has appeared in Jacket, Great Works, Cake, Poetry Salzburg Review, nthposition, FREAKLUNG, SPINE, Half Circle, and The Red Ceilings. He is the author of X (The Arthur Shilling Press, 2009), Chimera (Erbacce, 2010), Attack of the gas powered Angels (The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2010) and Poems found at the scene of a murder (ZimZalla, 2010). No Ideas but in Things by Chris Stephenson and Stephen Emmerson is coming soon from The Arthur Shilling Press. He also edits the ezone blart.

Anthony Mellors, from Bent our of Shape

Anthony Mellors is the editor of fragmente: a magazine of contemporary poetics. His Late Modernist Poetics from Pound to Prynne (Manchester University Press) has just come out in a new paperback edition. Readings this year include Xing the Line and the Hay Jamboree. He has been described by Andrew Duncan as 'an awkward person'.

Sarah Ahmad, seven poems

Sarah Ahmad was born in India and now lives somewhere, somehow and broke, last seen around mountains in Canada. She has been lucky enough to have work published in some amazing places online as well as in print. Also her visual poetry work is part of Avant Writing Collection at the Ohio State University Rare Books & MSS Library. She desperately wants you to check out her blog Sarah Ahmad [alternative words]. Recent ebooks are closing eyes blazing life (ronin press, 2010), confined (space). (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2010), Inception, (Gold Wake Press, 2010), Closing Eyes Blazing Life (Argotist Books), & (Fanciful) Tales (andrewtopel, 2010), this is visual poetry, (this is visual poetry, 2010), was born, forced to see. Not dead yet. (cc&d/Scars Publications, 2010), My Bipolar head is epic fail (The Red Ceilings, 2010), Chaotic Disillusion (Calliope Nerve publications, 2010) and Unfulfilled Doubts (Artistically Declined Press, 2010).

Reeti Roy, five poems

Reeti Roy is an independent journalist and writer originally from Calcutta, India. She graduated with a BA (first class honours) in English literature from Jadavpur University Calcutta. Her work has been published in Indian newspapers and nagazines such as the Statesman, The Telegraph, The Times of India and Femina and her travel writing has been published by Matador Network. Her grants include The Choice Fellowship from The Seagull Foundation For The Arts, The Matador Network Fellowship from Matador Network, the largest Independent online travel magazine and The Charles Wallace India Trust Fund to pursue the Scottish Universities' International Summer School in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. She is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Robert Atherton, six poems

Robert Atherton is a senior poetry editor for the Black Market Review.

Glenn R Frantz, Bridge / Lawn / Solarium

Glenn R. Frantz is a native of southeastern Pennsylvania, USA. His poems have appeared in publications such as Arsenic Lobster, ditch, Cricket, Sawbuck, and Blackbox Manifold. His e-chapbook We Are You is available from Beard of Bees. And his homepage lists his poetry and music online.

Arthur Coleman, five poems

Arthur Leo Coleman IV hails originally from the suburbs of New York City. He attended Hunter College in Manhattan, where he pursued an independent study in Linguistics in affiliation with the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He spent some years living in Mexico City and Buenos Aires, working as an Editorial Correspondent for a financial news wire. Currently he resides in Los Angeles where he is at work on his first novel. The poet is 27 years old. His website Atavism: The writings of Arturo Leo Coleman IV has many of his poems posted on it.

Nicholas R Scott, The Prison Series + the Pie Series

Nicholas R Scott is a recent graduate of the BA Creative Writing course at the University of Bedfordshire, and something of a large bearded geek. His fiction revolves around Science Fiction and the Fantastical, and his poetry is an exploration into mathematical methodology and innovative uses of syntax. He is currently working on his first novel. Waffle, blogs, and general musings can be found at www.nicholasrscott.co.uk

Harry Godwin, poem for P. Philpott, read at Xmasing the Line, 3/12/09

Harry Godwin is a Devon-based poet, who also runs The Arthur Shilling Press, Cleaves Journal and The Small Press Catalogue. He has published The Benholm Potato Growers (The Arthur Shilling Press, 2009), with other work available online at onedit, streetcakemagazine.com, The Red Ceilings, "Intercapillary", Readings and Spine.

R G Gregory, Proverbs of Hell

poet playwright theatre-in-the-round director and actor
innovative english and drama teacher
inventor of instant theatre and the english block
founder of the language-arts company word and action (dorset)
and member of it for thirty years
writer of fiction and non-fiction
maker of poem-collages and poem-graphics
and a deep believer in the ordinary human spirit (OHS)

Greg's own website is the carefully erected cathedral of the ordinary human spirit. There are more poems by R G Gregory on Great Works.

Peter Hughes & Simon Marsh, Pistol Tree Poems

Pistol Tree Poems is an epistolary sequence between Peter Hughes and Simon Marsh, from various locations, mainly in the UK and Italy (Simon Marsh lives in Northern Italy). Bar Magenta (The Many Press, 1988) contains poems by both of them. There are some formal constraints you will be able to observe in Pistol Tree Poems. The most recent poems start here. There is more work by Peter Hughes on this site.

Mike Ruddick, BOUNDARIES

Mike Ruddick lives in Ledbury. He plays with the band Treefrogs.His poems can also be found on his blog. He has recently re-found an interest in eric mottram and the grizzly fault-line mottram-bunting-pound also the flowers along the way of turnbull nuttal and caddell intrigue.

Paul Holman, THE MEMORY OF THE DRIFT: Book Five: Tara Morgana from the archive

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