Shorter Works

Essays, poetry, stories, polemics, extracts from novels, etc etc, which can be read on line or printed out. If you have work you would like to be considered for inclusion, please contact Sebastian Hayes.

The Search for the Golden Bird  •  The Unitary Vision of Sylvia Oldroyd  •  Another Mouth has Passed  •  The Byzant, the Town Hall, the Pocket Borough, and the Grosvenors  •  The Shaftesbury Chronicles  •  Rimbaud Revisited  •  Poems

The Search for the Golden Bird by Sebastian Hayes

An extract chapter from The Foundling… read extract

The Unitary Vision of Sylvia Oldroyd by Sebastian Hayes

Refelctions on the Brimstone title A Mouthful of Stars (2008) by Sylvia Oldroyd… read extract

Another Mouth has Passed by JC Sledge

An extract from a novel being written… read extract

The Byzant, the Town Hall, the Pocket Borough, and the Grosvenors by Keith Walton

How the building of Shaftesbury's town hall put the town to sleep, and how we can awaken it… Read extract

The Shaftesbury Chronicles by Keith Walton

Extract from an unpublished novel that gives an alternative history of Shaftesbury from 1989 to 2015… Read extract

Poems by Keith Walton

A selection of recent poems, including those written for Double Vision.… Read extract