{"id":348,"date":"2022-11-18T10:55:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T10:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/?p=348"},"modified":"2022-11-18T11:29:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T11:29:54","slug":"future-publications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/2022\/11\/18\/future-publications\/","title":{"rendered":"What Comes Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In The Dark Trilogy,<\/em> I created a literary alter ego – Trystan Lewis – named Trystan as I had a vague idea when I began writing – all those years ago – to link him in some way with the Tristan in The Romance of Tristan and Iseult.<\/em> I never found a way to make that work but kept the name! Lewis, the surname, after the old nickname I had been given when I first went to sea, Louis (as in Louis Armstrong or Satchmo). A few months ago I was reading an article about James Joyce which reminded me that Stephen Dedalus was Joyce’s literary alter ego and, in turn, that reminded me of my original plan… and I began plotting… planning… and a new book was born!\u00a0While I have made no attempt to write a modern version of The Romance of Tristan and Iseult<\/em>, all of the main chapters are named for the chapters in the Romance<\/em> and each chapter has thematic links and some reference point to the original. Character names are all drawn from the original: for example, Trystan’s good friend George Knight is named for Gorvenal (the word means knight). The story follows Trystan and George through a twenty-four hour period and deals with fate and the downwards spiral of events caused by drink, much in the way of Charles Jackson’s The Lost Weekend. <\/em>Although the story is centred in a small Welsh town,\u00a0as with much of my writing the sea is central to, and surrounds, the story and among many, often hidden, literary allusions, Moby Dick<\/em> is referenced at both the beginning (Trystan “sailed about a little [on] the watery part of the world”) and the end (“the great shroud of the sea rolled on”) of the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So Trystan lives on! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do like the idea of extending story lines so, as well as Trystan, several other characters from The Dark Trilogy<\/em> <\/a>also appear in, and indeed are the subject of, some of my short stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a publishing programme planned and expect to publish a poetry chapbook very soon, before – early next year – the short story collection. Trystan <\/em>and a further collection of poems should follow soon after that. [Order of publication may be subject to change!]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch this space!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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