Newfoundland Books

In managing the riches of these works there is little temptation of profit beyond their dissemination as widely as possible. This affects the editing and layout to reduce space, not increase it, to lower costs while at the same time making each production, starting with the cover, a work of art itself and beautiful in saying that which has not been said. We publish on Amazon today a Memoir of Angels of 104 pages and a price of $3.50.

Our second publication on Kindle and in paperback, with a hardback to ensue, is a series of the Later Poems of the Llyfr Taliesin, that is, but is not a translation. This was reviewed by the esteemed Ruth P. M. Lehmann, long time writer, linguist and translator of the family of languages of Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Cornish and Breton, author of An Introduction to Old Irish, Early Irish Verse, a translation of Beowulf and Arthurian works. She writes “Thank you for letting me see your Taliesin. You have a real feel for the music of words, great variety of mood, voice, and form. Your use of some of the intricate Provençal schemes shows your daring in your skill. You ring many bells, waken many thoughts. This is truly excellent work."

A Bloody Theory of Divine Light was reviewed recently on Amazon as four stars, an interesting review that is an essay itself, calling Bloody Theory a "magical, completely mad, jousting with society, but somehow untouchable, pristine and pure of heart." Considered as a species of Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory, "analogous to second order observation as Luhmann might point out. Modernity is ultimately a question of contingency, yes, but technology and divination remain distinct in this (mostly) disenchanted and differentiated...holy shrine’ of modern society. So where does this ‘holy shrine’ as described herein leave us? It leaves us squarely at the doorstep of modern society, alongside the reinsurance company agents and the undead salesmen, observing patiently the unfolding of this paradox (as folklore) in the form of science fiction, fantasy, advertising, Hollywood, and Burger King, which the intellectuals and the scholars abhor... It is not so much that I dislike any particular thing in this collection, only that it feels unrealized, a masterpiece only half finished, a work that speaks to my own sense of failed genius — neither entirely a poem, nor an online rant, nor academic criticism, yet simultaneously all three."