“True beauty results from that repose which the mind feels when the eye, the intellect, and the affections, are satisfied from the absence of any want.”
– Owen Jones, Grammar of Ornament (1856)
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Category Archives: Wordsmith
The Execution of Leon d’Oro- Grippo- Jonathan O’Farrell
Storytelling takes new form in the powerful words of Jonathan O’Farrell:
https://suddendenouement.com/2018/09/14/the-execution-of-leon-doro-grippo-jonathan-ofarrell/
“Somehow, knowingly, he had saved
the last little remnant.
Somewhat dried six and a half month old toothpaste,
for the morning.
In waiting, the end of the tube,
or the end of his world,
he could not have, foretold…”
Half the world
“I mark’d a throne
Of half the world as all my own…”
– Edgar Allan Poe, from “Tamerlane”,1827
Art by Eva Kosmos.
Now Available for Kindle: A Sparrow Stirs its Wings, Composition of a Woman, and Anthology Version I: Writings from the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective
Sudden Denouement Publishing is thrilled to announce that three of our recent releases are now available for Kindle:
https://suddendenouement.com/2018/10/04/now-available-for-kindle-a-sparrow-stirs-its-wings-composition-of-a-woman-and-anthology-version-i-writings-from-the-sudden-denouement-literary-collective/
Anthology Volume I: Writings from the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective
Anthology Volume I: Writings from the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective is a thoughtfully curated compendium of the best writing published online by the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective from its launch in August of 2016 through April 2018. It includes 138 pieces of cutting-edge poetry, prose and short fiction written by 29 diverse writers from England, Romania, Japan, India, Finland, the United States and Canada. Thirty-one of the 138 pieces were written exclusively for the Anthology. This volume captures the astonishing raw power of these individual and united poetic voices.
A Sparrow Stirs its Wings by Rachel Finch
“Every now and then, when the world seems to be rocked in chaos and people are screaming without listening – vile words and cries for help climbing on top of and over each other – a single voice stands out, and that voice is pure in its truth and stunning in its wisdom.
Rachel Finch, and her debut book, A Sparrow Stirs its Wings, is that voice right now. Turning her heartbreaking abuse into heart wrenching prose, Finch writes her truth and gives her strength to every unnamed victim turned survivor.”
Nicole Lyons, I Am A World Of Uncertainties Disguised As A Girl
Composition of a Woman by Christine E. Ray
Christine Ray’s debut poetry collection ‘Composition of a Woman’ is an extraordinary glimpse into the essence of what it takes to make, and sometimes simultaneously break, a woman as strikingly powerful as she is beautiful. Split into five sections (Nerve, Brain, Breast, Rib, and Blood), Ray writes about chronic illness, depression, love, loss, and identity.
“Poet Christine Ray’s first printed collection of poetry, Composition of a Woman (Sudden Denouement Press, 2018) is a striking, fearless foray into the psyche of womanhood, both highly relatable and intensely personal for female readers and achingly candid and fascinating for male.”
Candice Louisa Daquin, Pinch the Lock
Water
“Unless you really understand the water, and understand the reason for being on it, and understand the love of sailing and the feeling of quietness and solitude, you don’t really belong on a boat anyway. I think Hemingway said one time that the sea is the last free place on earth.”
– Humphrey Bogart
Art by Frederick Judd Waugh.
Across The Bow – Matthew D. Eayre
Across The Bow – Matthew D. Eayre
Breathless and formidable as always:
“Far from my mind is the thought
of what I may possess
or what others have not
A place between understanding,
perhaps
education is not the measure
of a man’s knowledge
and experience is only one of many
I cannot find the sound of reverence
echoing down hallowed halls;
as though none had been before
today sounded the first call…”
Read this stunning story on Sudden Denouement Literary Collective:
suddendenouement.com/2018/09/28/across-the-bow-matthew-d-eayre
Poetry of Monsters is also his doing!
Autumn
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” – Albert Camus
Art by Victor Prouvé.
Two Ten Second Plays – David Lohrey
Two Ten Second Plays – Bladed words that pierce deeper and reach further by David Lohrey
Feel the cuts and stings on Sudden Denouement Literary Collective: suddendenouement.com/2018/09/26/two-ten-second-plays-david-lohrey
David Lohrey was born on the Hudson River but grew up on the Mississippi in Memphis. He currently teaches in Tokyo. He has reviewed books for The Los Angeles Times and The Orange County Register, has been a member of the Dramatists Guild in New York, and he is currently writing a memoir of his years living on the Persian Gulf. His latest book, The Other Is Oneself: Postcolonial Identity in a Century of War: 20th Century African and American Writers Respond to Survival and Genocide, is available on Amazon.com. He is also the author of Machiavelli’s Backyard from Sudden Denouement Publishing.
Words
“Words are more dangerous than swords and guns. They reach further and hurt deeper.”
― Luis Marques
Art by Charles Vess – illustration for Stardust by Neil Gaiman.
Businesses must be built like cities
Businesses must be built like cities, as places for pleasure, trade, wealth and work.
A successful business epitomizes the work that shines like gold. The work that breathes the perpetual air of jazziest Spring.
Innovation and hard work
Your deeds and hard work are evidence of your small empire erected on a foundation of stardusted ideas protected by the wing of spring. Rains might soak your efforts and bring in the smell of dust, but you must toil and think creatively until the sun comes down again.
Whoever comes for pleasure should see the hard work behind every shiny slate in the pavement.
Leave trails of hard work to lead your customers to your city of trade, wealth and treasures. Be a lucky snail that leaves a gold trail of slog.
Trade means to develop friendliness and communication. The city of business is not a place for arguments but for agreements and networking. And for instructive courses, information, physical and spiritual wealth and language. The language that creates truthful connections between the people who are willing to build something wonderful together, a business, a new product, a story that stealthily steals your time while giving away pleasure.
Extraordinary evidence
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” – Carl Sagan
Show hard evidence of your timeless toil everywhere, on your site, blog and social media pages. On your white papers, newsletters, emails, your sketches of new projects.
“The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well.” ― John D. Rockefeller
Let us draw an idea with some words! As we cannot paint like this:
© Iulia Halatz
Art by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky.
I am delighted that five of my poems were included in the Sudden Denouement Anthology Volume I. The anthology is now available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.