Blood of Kings
1st Edition
Published on 27. November 2012
86 pages
978-1-908487-23-0 (ISBN)
Description
A reflection on life, The Blood of Kings describes in raw emotion and evocative language all aspects of what it is to be a man, a poet, a soldier, a friend. This poetry, with a dark edge, covers the loss of love, death, religion, friendship, war and a philosophical outlook on what they all really mean. Not always easy reading, but with depth and passion, JB Brown describes a passage of rights where the juxtaposition of life, its highs and its accompanying pain are only too real.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Front matter
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Quotations
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- The Blood of Kings
- i. Beginning the Reign
- Lost In Bohemia
- Opposites Attract
- A Small Untruth
- My Beautiful Son
- A Sage Jigsaw
- Black Hope
- The Meadow of Atë
- Alcoholic
- Pas de Deux
- Replenish My Atmosphere
- Snapshot
- ii. Depth
- Maybe Just An Irish Song
- More
- Talk or Listen
- The Photographic Room
- You Women Who Have Lived In Me
- The One-Eyed Queen
- Apart
- Haunt Me
- Examine
- Cannon
- Halve My Life, Quarter My Thought
- iii. War
- Roman Catholic
- Judgement Has Found You Worthy
- Stealing Stars
- On Investigating Dreams
- God Allows An Angel To Die
- The Great Debate
- A Reckoning
- The Promise Of Things To Come
- Do Not Hesitate
- Of The Oleander
- The Boneyard
- The Baghdad Cigar Aficionado Club
- Option Was Zero
- The Battle List & The Way Ahead
- The Conservation of Angular Momentum
- iv. Regicide
- Enemy
- Murder
- Silver Traitor
- Oracle
- That Killing Feeling
- Remorse (Hoc Majorum Virtus)
- As the Empire Falls
- v. The Keening
- The Availability of the Dead
- Quick Blood Fasting
- Stone-God Heart
- The Cross Of Hope Is Broken
- To Lament The Dead
- Where Your Ashes Kiss The Earth
- Breathless Delight
- Epilogue
- A Million To One
- Back matter
- Appendix: Notes
- Prologue
- i. Beginning the Reign
- ii. Depth
- iii. War
- iv. Regicide
- v. The Keening
- Epilogue
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