Under Heavenby Guy Gavriel Kay ( Read more... )

Anyone know where I can find or purchase a copy of Paul Frehner's Sarantine Polyphony, recently premiered by the McGill Chamber Orchestra? As an MP3 or video recording, since I don't have an orchestra handy to perform sheet music.

Tigana
by Guy Gavriel Kay
676 pages (trade paperback)
Genre: Fiction/Fantasy/Historical

This is my third pass of Tigana and my second front-to-back read (the other time being a skim-through of Dianora's sections). I still love Kay's prose, overwrought as it sometimes is; the ending still killed me, though no tears. I love Dianora as usual; more ( Read more... )

Beyond This Dark House
by Guy Gavriel Kay
106 pages (hardcover)
Genre: Poetry/Literary/Fantasy

I ordered this book from indigo.ca (paying twice the discounted cover price for international shipping, too) in September, and posted my first poem excerpt in November. It's now March, but I've finally gotten around to posting everything I wanted to excerpt ( Read more... )

The last excerpt I'll be posting from Beyond This Dark House, review soon forthcoming. [p.p.102-103]

( The Guardians )

The title poem of the collection, excerpted from Beyond This Dark House by Guy Gavriel Kay [p.p.91-94]:

( Beyond This Dark House )

Excerpted from Beyond This Dark House by Guy Gavriel Kay [p.85]:

And Diving

Late night
in a cold bed,
far away.

Yesterday I dreamed
that you had died,

arcing from a bridge
to black water.

I arrived too late
and diving,

could only bring
your body back to be
whitened by moonlight.

I was crying, holding
your still hands.

Late night,
cold bed, telling myself
I do not ( Read more... )

Excerpted from Beyond This Dark House by Guy Gavriel Kay [p.76]:

Shalott

. . . and so forgetting
what I came to say,
I sense a shadowed loom
in the room behind you.
There will be no windows
save one and, of course,
one river only.
Then the mirror,
lacking, suddenly, you.
What you are
forces the tapestry: your hands
shaping fables, my steps
on the twisted stair.
I ( Read more... )

Excerpted from: Beyond This Dark House by Guy Gavriel Kay [p.62]

At the Death of Pan

Where the god fell--
mark the place with flowers,

red for blood
and the white . . .

there are no rules for this,
you know. Precedents

are somewhat limited.
Do something with the white.

Clear a space as well
for the hangers-on.

I have no idea
how many will be here

or how they'll ( Read more... )

"Guinevere at Almesbury"
by Guy Gavriel Kay
excerpted from Beyond This Dark House [p.43-45]

( Guinevere at Almesbury )