― fletrejet, Thursday, 6 March 2003 17:44 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 March 2003 18:10 (twenty-three years ago)
started a compilation tonight, hadn't read before now. it's good, as long as you bear in mind that everyone copied him and not the other way round.
― flags post o fu (darraghmac), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 23:47 (fourteen years ago)
Hahah too true. Never did finish that anthology! I need to get back to it, and I stand by my take on The King of Elfland's Daughter. Now why did mark s never post to this thread...
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 23:49 (fourteen years ago)
yeah i'll be getting that, definitely. brandon sanderson can wait
― flags post o fu (darraghmac), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 23:50 (fourteen years ago)
The Curse of the Wise Woman is a pretty good fairy tale about demon-haunted Ireland — English peat-harvesting company threatens to destroy a beloved bog, crazy bog witch spends her free time cursing peat thieves and babbling about Irish independence, witch's son imperils his soul with his yearnings for Tír na nÓg, baron's son flees from mysterious cadre of assassins. but mostly it's Dunsany ruminating about his childhood — there are lots of oddly moving descriptions of hunting geese and snipe on the bog and enjoying the freedom of being a (absurdly wealthy) 16-year-old. apparently Dunsany wrote this book after Yeats complained that he had never written about Ireland.
― dichtgekitte discman (unregistered), Monday, 2 March 2015 01:58 (eleven years ago)
a lot of Dunsany's novels are long out of print — The Curse of the Wise Woman was reprinted just last year, and his weird '50s sci-fi novel The Last Revolution was reprinted last month (but I haven't read it yet).
― dichtgekitte discman (unregistered), Monday, 2 March 2015 02:08 (eleven years ago)
otoh I read a collection of his short stories (Wonder Tales: The Book of Wonder and Tales of Wonder) and didn't enjoy it at all. too whimsical for my taste, I guess.
― dichtgekitte discman (unregistered), Monday, 2 March 2015 02:16 (eleven years ago)
I still haven't read anything more than bits of his poems (despite wanting to for a long time and owning several books of his) but he is known to have a few different stylistic phases.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 2 March 2015 03:03 (eleven years ago)
I haven't read any of his poems (except for ones that are embedded in his stories) so I have no idea how he rates as a poet. it's too bad there don't seem to be any poetry collections available.
― dichtgekitte discman (unregistered), Monday, 2 March 2015 03:55 (eleven years ago)
The Penguin/Joshi Dunsany collection (which has a variety of his different works) has several prose poems. More of his books will be coming out, including more plays. There was a bunch of newly discovered work recently.
There's this toohttps://vimeo.com/ondemand/dunsany/88775322
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 2 March 2015 13:35 (eleven years ago)