Bøger af Daniel Casey

The poetry of Daniel Casey's Casual Myth is embedded in all too quickly forgotten moments or fleeting encounters. Nuanced banality, ordinary confusion, and dry humor permeate this chapbook as the poems play with the idea of shared experience and subjective lyricism.

In this third installment of the Ascendant Realms series, our scattered heroes come together as the plots, schemes, and stratagems that had divided and threatened them are made clear. In the Cathedral city of Sulecin, Wynne Landis is sequestered as the religion of the world debates to elect a new Patriarch. Also in the city, the priestess Kira, the disgraced paladin Goshen, Wynne's daughter Fery, and the mercenary Declan are desperately trying to stay one-step ahead of those hunting them while searching for a way to reach Wynne. With the arrival of the free ranger Jena, the group finally reunites before shattering apart again due to intrigue within the Cathedral. A rival nation's army is still on the doorstep of the city as news has finally arrived of a gigantic armada from far southern city of Lappala its intention entirely unclear. Pinned between two looming threats, the newly elected Patriarch will set into action a series of events that will upend the world of Syr Nebra. Still caught in the machinations of the powerful, but now determined to do all they can to oppose the dark dealings, Kira, Goshen, Wynne, Fery, Declan, and Jena fight to stay together. All the while in the far north, Roth has been given a key by his mysterious order, which could roll back hostilities. He leaves his sanctuary searching for his compatriots.

Winterfinding, book two of the Ascendant Realms series, picks up after where Adversaries Together left off. After defeating the pirate mercenary Asa Salda, Avery Roth leaves his new allies and goes north to deliver to his elders-the mysterious Caretakers-the orphaned child Colm. Meanwhile, Jena Char erases any traces of the group to prevent or stall any further bounty hunters. Wynne Landis has gone to the seat of the world's dominate religion, The Cathedral in the city of Sulecin, in the hopes of negotiating an end the siege of his home city of Rikonen. His daughter Fery stays by the side of the fallen paladin Goshen Staad, the mercenary Declan Rainway, and the priestess Kira Ambrose as they discover more about who is pursuing them and why. All the while, the Seven Spires has amassed an army set to conquer Rikonen with The Cathedral's blessing. But before it can set out on its war path, intrigue unsettles The Cathedral as word arrives of an armada from the far southern nation of Lappala-Do they want war? Trade? Or something else?

These short stories invite the reader to see Ireland afresh. Included are works by well-known authors such as Mary Lavin, Edna O'Brien, and Julia O'Faolain; the collection also showcases new writers such as Clare Boylan, Rita Kelly, and Una Woods. Repeatedly, the stories bring us up against the inherent contradiction of provincial Ireland and Ireland as a modern European state, and the complexities of women's lives in both. Helen Lucy>Ita Daly movingly portrays the problems of an educated, sensitive schoolteacher, resigned to her life in a country town. Anne Devlin handles yet another familiar theme: the Irelander in England, an England edgy about IRA bombings. A few stories deal with the "troubles" in Northern Ireland, while others address the troubles of the country as a whole: too many children, too much hypocrisy, too little communication, especially between women and men. The editors have provided an introduction that examines the role of women writers in Irish literature. T-hey have also supplied detailed biographical notes for each contributing author.