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‘The Modern Type’ is short listed for Historical Novel Society Prize

Publication updates for The Typewriterists by David N. Martin

‘The Typewriterists’ wins the Norman King Award for Fiction, 2025

Publication updates for The Typewriterists by David N. Martin

‘The Typewriterists’ is now available as a Paperback

Publication updates for The Typewriterists by David N. Martin

More About My Struggle With Poetry

So, on Thursday night, I was listening to someone read a poem about a rocket disaster (don’t ask me the reason, it’s too complex). The poem began with some beautiful imagery about the preparations for launch, then switched, two-thirds of the way through, to some very factual sentences reporting the disintegrating situation that led to allContinue reading “More About My Struggle With Poetry”

What Decides Genre – Part Two

So, following on from my previous post of a week or so back ( https://forgedtruth.wordpress.com/2013/10/16/what-decides-literary-genre/), last night I heard someone reading a piece of prose that sounded to me exactly like poetry. In my defence, the reader hadn’t tried to label the piece herself, so I felt free to rush in and make a judgement (itContinue reading “What Decides Genre – Part Two”