Marly Youmans's Blog, page 9

Once again, I'm guilty of being lively on twitter and facebook but ignoring the blog! Hope all you passers-by have remained healthy and sane in the midst of topping chaos. A few new notables are below:





I've updated the Charis in the World of Wonders page with some new comments and review clips. A review from novelist H. S. Cross is forthcoming, and another from Robbi Nester, as well as an

If you were cast into woe by missing the Greer - Thomas - Youmans reading, here it is. I couldn't get youtube to accept an image of all three of us; we are too complex for youtube, it seems! So apologies that it's just my cover as thumbnail.


Jane Greer - Love like a Conflagration 

Sally Thomas - Motherland 

Marly Youmans - Charis in the World of Wonders



12 June 2020
via Zoom

A new poem just out at North American Anglican







Godric of Finchale as a Thorn Tree

Homage to Frederick Buechner



Fly HERE to read the poem.

Snitching a twitter-comment from poet Lisa McCabe @LAHMCCABE:
Replying to @NorthAmAnglican and @marlyyoumans - thank you for writing this beautiful poem. The dedication is perfect.



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A new review of Glimmerglass at Brandywine Books

Sigrid Undset's "The Wife" (1921) and @marlyyoumans's "Charis in the World of Wonders" (2020), novels with surprising similarities, combined into one blog post.https://t.co/9rTmaJzWIH

"His breath ruttled as he blew outward and sent the plants to trembling."
— Amateur Reader (Tom) (@AmateurReader) June 16, 2020

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I am so pleased that two of my books have been discussed at the stellar

Illumination by Clive Hicks-JenkinsPb available via indies, Amazon etc.Hc & pb available via  Phoenicia Publishing


I have read The Book of the Red King. It is an extraordinary work. It put me in mind of how much I enjoyed Yeats’s early fairyland poems. The poems remain steadfastly otherworldly. They transport the reader to an existence apart. I’m reminded of James’s definition of a romance

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Hurrah for reviews!

At The Wine-Dark Sea, Melanie Bettinelli has published a long, thoughtful review of Charis in the World of Wonders that dives into wonders, grace, character oppositions (sometimes as structure), transcendentals, freedom, language, narrative mode, variation in "Puritan" thought among late seventeenth-century characters, the wilderness, and beauty. I'm glad that she

Art by Clive Hicks-JenkinsSee Clive's posts on Thaliad hereBook design by Elizabeth AdamsAvailablein pb via indies, Bookshop, Amazon, etc.,and in both hc/pb from Phoenicia Publishing


Clive, this morning in Wales: 'Ark', a chapter heading from Marly Youman's poem/novel, 'Thaliad'. I set out on my 'Thaliad' adventure with some trepidation, wary of its author's description in several e-mails of

You are invited

to a

Pandemic Book Party



Jane Greer, Sally Thomas, Marly Youmans

reading from their new books:

two poetry collections and a novel.



Live

on

Friday, June 12

North America: 

3:00 Eastern, 

2:00 Central, 

1:00 Mountain, 

noon Pacific.

World time zone converter HERE.



Register in advance 

HERE. 







Jane Greer,

Love Like a Conflagration

Jane Greer

One of the demands of writing a novel set in the past is that a writer not put people and thoughts of his or her own day into fancy dress. Not give us woke people in linsey-woolsey. Not present people with our own concerns about climate (well, maybe if it's a Ruskin--so prescient!) or our own beliefs about how a woman may be heroic or our own attitudes toward childbirth or child-rearing or

Charis in the World of Wonders reviews



Greg Langley, The Baton Rouge Advocate: 

Young heroine in 'Charis' will captivate readers

23 May 2020



Ben Steelman, The Wilmington StarNews:  

In NC writer’s new novel, the woods are dark, deep and dangerous

16 May 2020



Here's a blog review by Cat Hodge

at Darwin Catholic



And I'm pleased to see Amazon reviews 
by writers and others...