‘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”

What Decides Literary Genre?

This week, I heard someone reading a poem that sounded to me exactly like prose.  Now, I’ve always been bad at understanding or passing any meaningful comment on poetry (it’s my blind spot) but the more I listened the more I realised I was responding to the poem exactly as if it were a shortContinue reading “What Decides Literary Genre?”