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Volume 14, Issue 1-2
  • ISSN: 2042-8022
  • E-ISSN: 2042-8030

Abstract

The following article is reprinted from Kevin’s (Propolis Books, 2023) which is a collection of essays, articles, lectures and reviews. The collection focuses on the various facets of story and storytelling which have been at the heart of all Kevin’s literary achievements: his poetry; his many translations from Old English; his retellings of British folk tales, Anglo-Saxon riddles and Norse myths; and his fiction – in particular his Arthur novels, and his prize-winning novella This article, however, is Kevin’s recollections of his many collaborators with composers and musicians and his long and distinguished career as a lyricist and librettist, beginning with the setting of some of his translations of Anglo-Saxon riddles by Sir Arthur Bliss when Kevin had just graduated from university and concluding with his most recent collaboration with Cecilia McDowall.

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