Black Hamlet aka Roy Stanton is the author of 31 books, including Loser! One Hand, and Who is Black Hamlet?. Black Hamlet lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, after a long stint in Los Angeles and an even longer stint in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia.
After 30 books, Black Hamlet is one of the most prolific and innovative poets of the 21st century, with his unique applications of form poetry, free verse, some slam and rap for good measure, and his signature forays into the hard and soft sciences.
As well as his poetry, Black Hamlet has just finished his first novel: LOSER!
Topical, confronting, sometimes abrasive, Black Hamlet plans to keep evolving and producing until he has nothing left to say. A day he struggles to foresee.
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Black Hamlet aka Roy Stanton is the author of 31 books, including Loser! One Hand, and Who is Black Hamlet?. Black Hamlet lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, after a long stint in Los Angeles and an even longer stint in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia.
After 30 books, Black Hamlet is one of the most prolific and innovative poets of the 21st century, with his unique applications of form poetry, free verse, some slam and rap for good measure, and...
The author takes you on a uniquely personal, yet achingly familiar journey across four continents and fifty years, journeying down dark rabbit holes and exploring the depths of our flawed humanity, before revealing the light of redemption.
This is not a tale of religious awakening or a lecture on...
The premise for Octaves is at once simple, and complex – typical for me! I have highlighted 8 different forms and produced 8 poems for each form, each form covering a self-imposed theme or idea. For example, PART TWO, featuring Petrarchan Sonnets, has “eight-legged entities” as its theme. These cover arachnids, Gods, and whatever else took my...
It's a question as old as the movies - which is better, the book or the film?
With some genres, most notably Science Fiction and Fantasy. there is no comparison - the book outshines the movie adaption in almost every respect. With other genres the distinction is not so clear. This is perhaps most with the horror genre.
Three of my all-time favorite horror books are The Exorcist, The Omen and Clive Barker's Books of Blood. The movie adaptions of The Exorcist and The Omen were both excellent in...
Among the many poetic and literary examples of stream-of-consciousness writing, perhaps the most famous are Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, a novel that follows Clarissa Dalloway throughout a single day in London, using stream of consciousness to reveal her thoughts, memories, and perceptions as she prepares for a party, and James Joyce's Ulysses, considered a landmark work of modernist literature. Ulysses employs stream of consciousness to explore the inner lives of Leopold Bloom, Stephen...
They say a picture paints a thousand words but a well-placed word or sentence can paint a complex picture as well.
I remember reading Kevin J Anderson's "Saga of the Seven Suns" series where a Klikiss Robot is explaining things to a human. The human is confused by the explanation and the heart of his confusion is his belief that robots cannot lie. To conclude its explanation the Kilikiss robot says, "I lied."
Two words. Simple, yet powerful when placed in context. The much overused "Jesus wept"...
