R J Dent’s in depth feature article about the renowned fantasy and science fiction artist and illustrator, Rodney Matthews, appeared in Issue 41 of FEAR Magazine. The article, which includes a wide-ranging interview with Matthews, is entitled, Rodney Matthews: Another … Continue reading →
How incarceration as a child affected JG Ballard’s fiction.
It wasn’t until the publication of his novel, Empire of the Sun – and its subsequent adaptation to film by Stephen Spielberg – that the literary world started to take notice of J.G. Ballard.
Continue reading →One of the frustrations, the challenges, the problems; probably the joys, of translating is choosing the correct idiom to translate into. Taking the words, sentences, phrases, lines, from the language of one country and translating them into the corresponding or equivalent language of another country is the type of work that can be done by almost anyone.
Continue reading →A study of Richard Bachman, Stephen King’s dead alter-ego.
It is now fairly common knowledge that best-selling horror novelist Stephen King sometimes uses the pseudonym Richard Bachman for publishing his novels. So far, the novels Rage, Roadwork, The Long
Continue reading →Even the most cursory glance will reveal some fundamental differences between the above two versions of the same poem. Robert Graves’ rewrite came about due to a number of flaws he felt existed in William Blake’s poem. He writes of these in ‘Tyger, Tyger’, an essay collected in The Crane Bag and Other Disputed Subjects. In the essay, Graves is particularly scathing of Blake’s tendency to mix his
Continue reading →An article on plagiarism by R J Dent – based on a real incident.
Plagiarism may be a dirty word, but there’s always someone ready to steal it…
Continue reading →Many of the biographical details of Roy Campbell’s life have contributed to his exquisitely beautiful poetry being willfully ignored by most of the publishing world.
In her introduction to Campbell’s translations of the poems of St John of the Cross, Campbell’s wife,
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