poetry

A New York advertising executive leaves his job in the city to write poetry in a hut by the sea. Once there he finds himself caught in the coils of his attraction to two women – a situation that so unsettles his wits that he falls prey to a heavily symbolic dream obsession. The story centers on a love triangle that develops between Landor, the niece of the man he’s staying with, Scarlet and the wife...

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare was written by G.K. Chesterton and published in 1908. Ostensibly about a secret policeman investigating anarchists, it becomes a surreal and philosophical novel. It is a metaphysical thriller, and a detective story filled with poetry and politics. Gabriel Syme is a poet and a police detective. Lucian Gregory is a poet and a bomb-throwing anarchist. Syme infiltrates...

The protagonist in Rob Roy is Francis Osbaldistone not the title character! Francis a spoiled son of a rich London businessman,who would rather write poetry than work for his father. Sent to his uncle’s estate as punishment in northern England, bordering simmering Scotland. He soon becomes involved in a feud with his cousin Rashleigh (youngest and smartest of six brothers!). A woman Diana is the main...

Autorka Małgorzata Chaładus mieszka w Szwecji od prawie trzydziestu lat. Tutaj zaczęła pisać, nie licząc młodzieńczych prób, których nikomu nie odważyła się pokazać. Odniosła już pewne sukcesy literackie. Agencja teatralna ADiT, z którą podpisała kontrakt, lansuje jej sztuki. Wiersze zdobyły wiele nagród w konkursach poetyckich i drukowane były w almanachach. Między innymi w 2008 roku wiersz Na strychu...