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...
A lot of people will tell you they've read a book, when they haven't. This is particularly true for so-called Classic Literature. Maybe people feel guilty because they feel they were supposed to read those books? Or maybe they're just bored with your conversation?
Here's why I think reading the Classics is important: I learned all about the contrasts between good and evil from reading The Brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen. They also taught me about moral ambiguity. This knowledge...
For me, it's simple ... art, music, literature, nature, people.
This is Pieter Bruegel The Elder's "The Triumph of Death" painted in 1562. Yes, even a depiction of the "end of all life on earth" can be inspirational. Sometimes, it's a butterfly.
POET, the first book of my Indrajala Trilogy, is done! Copies are going out to readers and editors then, if I'm lucky, I'll score a good Literary Agent to promote and sell my book :)
