Uncategorized – Mike Wilson https://mikewilsonwriter.com Writing in the post-truth world Tue, 30 Apr 2024 16:53:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 177517995 Pneumonia, a poem…. https://mikewilsonwriter.com/2024/05/10/pneumonia-a-poem/ https://mikewilsonwriter.com/2024/05/10/pneumonia-a-poem/#respond Fri, 10 May 2024 22:51:00 +0000 https://mikewilsonwriter.com/?p=3010

Poem by Mike Wilson, photo by Zac Nielson

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Words by Mike Wilson, photo by Jen Theodore

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Prophet Song, by Paul Lynch, narrates the breakdown of society under the rise of fascism from the point of view of a family resisting it. Set in a version of Ireland, the tale is told through the eyes of Eilish, a mother trying to save her husband and children and some sort of domestic normality as the unraveling and oppression accelerates all around them. The prose is first person, very immediate (even thoughts are portrayed like fleeting sense impressions) and intimate. Those of us in America might look at it as a preview of what life could become if Donald Trump exercises control over the Department of Justice and, unlike characters in Prophet Song, there’s no place for us to escape. Lengthy, run-on, stream-of consciousness prose may wear out some readers. This book won the 2023 Booker Prize. Reviews mostly are over-the-top raves. Here’s more restrained applause from NPR:

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/11/1218053727/book-review-paul-lynch-booker-prize-winning-prophet-song

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Two Poems By Mike Wilson
]]> https://mikewilsonwriter.com/2024/05/03/sonnets/feed/ 0 3002 The Heart Intervenes, a poem… https://mikewilsonwriter.com/2024/05/01/the-heart-intervenes-a-poem/ https://mikewilsonwriter.com/2024/05/01/the-heart-intervenes-a-poem/#respond Wed, 01 May 2024 12:47:44 +0000 https://mikewilsonwriter.com/?p=3000 The Heart Intervenes, Ink Sweat & Tears   March 26, 2024

https://inksweatandtears.co.uk/poetry/    

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Poem Mike Wilson, photo-Elise Wilcox

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Poem-Mike Wilson, appeared in Songs of Erertz Poetry Review

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 Ma”  appear  in the climate-themed issue of Still: The Journal, Winter 2023

https://www.stilljournal.net/mike-wilson-fiction2023.php

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Poem-Mike Wilson, photo-Andy Holmes, appeared in Willawaw Journal

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The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store is the title of National Book Award winner James McBride’s newest novel and the center of the fictional universe he creates in 1920s Pottsville, Pennsylvania, where Blacks and Jews live side by side. Interconnected plots peopled with memorable characters illustrate cultures specific to race and ethnicity and community that transcends both in a world where people can be selfish or generous, evil or heroic. Here’s what Kirkus Reviews says:

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/james-mcbride/the-heaven-earth-grocery-store/

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