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 Keith Walton.

The Search for the Golden Bird  •  The Unitary Vision of Sylvia Oldroyd  •  Ron Hansford: Countryman Poet  •  The Deathday Stone  •  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 Text

The Unitary Vision of Sylvia Oldroyd by Sebastian Hayes

Reflections on the Brimstone title A Mouthful of Stars (2008) by Sylvia Oldroyd… Read Text

Ron Hansford: Countryman Poet by Sebastian Hayes

Reflections on the Brimstone title Flying into the Blizzard (2009) by Ron Hansford… Read Text

The Deathday Stone by JC Sledge

This story appears in the novel Another Mouth Has Passed, published in 2009… Read Text

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 Text

The Shaftesbury Chronicles by Keith Walton

Extract from an unpublished novel that gives an alternative history of Shaftesbury from 1989 to 2015… Read Text

Poems by Keith Walton

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