Music

This morning's writing soundtrack (with relevance to the plot!) is:

#NewportNoir #PIWall #PIWall3 #WalkingTheEdge 

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'Walking The Edge' update

#‎PIWall3‬ ‪#‎WalkingTheEdge‬ continues apace and is now at the 50,000 words mark. ‪#‎NewportNoir‬

Mithras

If you've read Watching for the Dawn you'll know that its main theme is Mithraism and the 'Cult of Mithras' in the modern day.

BBC Radio 4's 'Today' programme had a piece this morning on the Mithras temple discovered in London during exacvations in 1954.

There is also an article on the BBC website today: 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-29309824

Walking The Edge - P.I. Wall 3

Having solved my job-work issues (I've gone back to P/T) I have begun writing the third P.I.Wall novel Walking The Edge where I left off some months ago.

It's going well but it's quite different to the first two; somewhat more complicated to knit together. You'll learn a lot more about Ed Wall for sure.

Watch this space for more news over the coming months!

#PIWall3

After a 6 month hiatus in writing (due to job-work commitments) I have returned to Walking the Edge, the 3rd P.I. Wall novel.

It's still early days, only a third or so of the novel written, but hopefully I can commit to it more through the winter and make up much lost ground.

Here's a short paragraph from the newest part of it:

"The rain continued to fall, heavier now, and she realised she’d been in the office for almost an hour without taking her coat off. Her hair was wet and a faint taste of her tears lingered alongside the memory of Wall’s goodbye kiss, which hung around for hours invading every sense of her. Tickling the atoms and brushed by other things pertinent to those particles." ‪

#‎NewportNoir‬

'The Great Outdoors'

The South Wales Argus yesterday had a full colour, double centre pages article and interview with me.

It was ostensibly about my photography, but talks a bit about my writing too. Check it out online here:

http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/leisure/its_the_weekend/11292915.IT_S_THE_WEEKEND__The_Great_Outdoors___Newport_poet_s_camera_lens_captures_beauty_on_his_doorstep/

'Walking The Edge', #PIWall3

Walking The Edge, the 3rd P.I. Wall novel continues apace. 

Part One of the novel, probably of Three, first draft written. 

Late Spring 2014 publicity photo

In my garden, June 8th 2014

I did a poetry reading yesterday in the 'Cwtsh' tent at the Maindee Festival here in Newport. Some older poems got dusted off to be read, some of them never read in public before including one from my first book 'Inishfree, Co. Donegal'.

Here's a very poor quality thumbnail photo of me on stage:

Spring 2014 portrait

#PIWall3 - Walking The Edge - proceeds slowly thanks to paid employment interfering in the creative process somewhat. 

Watch this space!

Walking The Edge

#PIWall3

Author portrait

St. Valentine's Day 2014

The Murenger pub, Newport

Ye Olde Murenger House pub, Newport

© John Gimblett, 2014

Today's writing music is..

Harmonia - Live 1974

Public Service Broadcasting - The War Room

Broncho - It's On


It's beginning to look like a character you've met in both of the #PIWall novels will die in this third one, Walking The Edge..

Reading from WGDSR

Photo © John Briggs, 2014 

Reading from We Go Down Slowly Rising and A Golden Age, at Ye Olde Murenger Inn, Newport. 15th January 2014.

Primal Scream

Primal Scream, We Go Down Slowly Rising from the album Sonic Flower Groove

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu4MNM_qQDw

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Public Reading

I will be reading from We Go Down Slowly Rising and A Golden Age tomorrow:

Wed 15 Jan 14

Open Mic Poetry Extravaganza 3 at Ye Olde Murrenger House, Newport on Wednesday, January 15th, 2014, 7.30 to 9.00 p.m.  Featuring John Gimblett, Julie McGowan, Bernard Pearson, Alan Roderick and special guests. £5-00 admission on the door (£3-00 concessions). Fundraiser by  the Handpost Community Library Association to help re-open the former Stow Hill Library.