May 19
En Route to Burgos © 2013 Sean M. Madden
An abridged version of this essay appeared on Henry Makow’s website on 24 February. Below is the original, exactly as it was written.
Tell someone you’re living in Spain and a whole world is conjured.
Mention to them that you arrived here after having spent the whole of the summer in France — traveling like treacle from Lille to Paris to Fontainebleau, and then spending two months in a quiet Read more
If you’ve always liked the idea of dropping into the conversation that you’ve got a couple of writers-in-residence staying with you for a short time, then why not take a look at this possibility?
Alternatively, if you’d like to bring a Write from the Heart writing workshop to your town, then do get in touch — we’d love to hear from you!
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Staying On
by Paul Scott
University of Chicago Press
215 pages
List Price: $17.00
Amazon: $11.84
It’s been nearly a decade since I read Paul Scott’s The Raj Quartet. I read the first two novels in Beate Ruhm von Oppen’s preceptorial at St. John’s College, Annapolis during the final semester of my first M.A. program. Before finishing the program in December 2003, I also bought the remaining two novels as well as Scott’s Booker Prize-winning coda to The Raj Quartet, Staying On.
I took these books with me when I moved that Christmas to England. With the momentum of The Jewel in the Crown and The Day of the Scorpion under my belt, and under my skin, I right away read The Towers of Silence and, then, the final novel of the series, A Division of the Spoils.
But despite my tutor-friend Beate’s having told me back then that she’d read Read more
My new book — An Essay concerning Human Enquiry — was published on Smashwords, my ebook distributor, this past Monday, 1 April. A couple of days later it went live on Amazon.com as well as on all other Amazon marketplaces, worldwide.
To preview the book via Amazon.com, click on the cover image to the left.
You can buy it via the following online outlets: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Smashwords. Over the next couple weeks, Human Enquiry will likewise become available via other major book retailers, including Barnes & Noble, Apple’s iTunes Store, etc.
Also, here’s my new Amazon author page.
Now a bit about the book itself … Read more
“Took part in another writing workshop with @SeanMMadden yesterday.
He rocks! So gentle, so encouraging, so real. Inspiring!”
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From 20 April through August 2013, I’ll be leading creative writing workshops throughout the British Isles — in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
This was announced via my Mindful Living Guide newsletter this past Monday, 18 March. Therein, we asked folk to email us if they were interested in helping us organize a workshop in their neck o’ the woods, and this request remains open for anyone who’d like to do so. As the local helper assisting us with distributing our flyers, and generally helping us find ten workshop participants, you’ll have a FREE place in the workshop yourself. And you’ll be a tremendous help to us in bringing the workshop to your hometown, and, thereby, well beyond this spring and summer.
The brilliant news is that by day’s end, we already had two locations identified — one in Eymet (Dordogne), France and one in Hastings, East Sussex. These workshops are now confirmed and open for bookings. Click on the relevant link, above, for details as well as to book your place. The former (Eymet) is a two-day writing workshop on Saturday & Sunday, 13 & 14 April; the latter (Hastings) is a one-day workshop on Saturday, 20 April. While Eymet is outside of the British Isles, it’s on our way home from Burgos, Spain, where we’ve been living since last September, and it’s a lovely area to spend a few days!
You can learn more via the Spring/Summer 2013 British Isles Writing Workshop Tour page on Mindful Living Guide.
Also, if you’d like to help us bring the British Isles Writing Workshop Tour to a place near you, please do get in touch. While we remain wholly open to considering all sorts of possibilities throughout England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, we’re presently honing in on the following:
(England) Eastbourne, Lewes, Brighton & Hove, London, Cambridge, Oxford, Chichester, Guildford, Salisbury, Glastonbury, Exeter, Totnes, St Austell, St Ives, Torridge, Bath, Bristol, Stroud, Gloucester, Birmingham, Manchester, towns/villages in the Lake District; (Wales) Cardiff, Hay-on-Wye; (Scotland) Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling, Wigtown, West Kilbride, St Andrews; (N. Ireland) Portstewart, Portrush, Belfast; (Republic of Ireland) Dublin, Newbridge, Kinsale, Killarney, Limerick, Galway.
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Mar 15
Human Enquiry © 2013 Sean M. Madden
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Mar 8
Slaked Thirst © 2013 Sean M. Madden
I stare into your depths
unable to tell if I
dive headlong
or am right-side-up
A fish, I
swim in your remedy
replete
Feel my own weather-worn wooden heart
and see how fresh is yours —
pomegranate-ripe, spring-flowing
Like Rumi’s well-wined Sufi soul
into
ever-widening
rings of being
This past weekend I finished reading the first half of Don Quixote, the entirety, that is, of Cervantes’ 1605 novel. As noted in Part One of “My Adventures with Don Quixote”, the second half of what now constitutes the whole of the extended novel was published as a sequel in 1615.
When I set out to write Part One I’d only read the first twelve chapters, but having known beforehand the gist of the knight errant’s story, hooks upon which Read more
An aged man, a veteran of one of an incessant stream of foreign wars, sits in his summerhouse in a compact flint-walled garden. A small patch of sweet peas grows nearby, as does a solitary cherry tree which for lack of bees this year Read more
If you’ve stumbled upon this essay without having read last week’s introduction to “My Adventures with Don Quixote”, you can read it now by clicking the above link. Otherwise onward ho …
I’m presently on Chapter 12 of Don Quixote, halfway through Part Two of the Read more
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