Bøger af Jonathan Finch

"The Light Of Day (I)" is the first in a series which collects poems which the published poet Jonathan Finch never submitted to editors. The poems remained in drawers and files but have now seen the light of day. Blank verse, rhymed verse, experimental poems but all with poignant themes see the light of day. An alcoholic lady, a jubilant criminal, a devious politician, the poet talking to his father about cancer and death, travel in Italy and France, love lost to the American dream...there is something here for many readers but especially for those who love poetry.

Essays, stories and articles about Thailand and in particular about Pattaya. The writer takes a critical look at Fun City, Pattaya, at its drug-like pull, and warns readers and punters alike of the alluring dangers of the city. Some articles contrast Thailand with Britain, establishing why living in Thailand is preferable to living in the highly repressive regime of the UK. However, common sense and moderation are extremely important if catastrophes are to be avoided in Pattaya, catastrophes that include accidents, financial ruin, long-term illness, and worse. The collection includes voices and vices, not just the author's voice and vice but multitudinous characters' voices and vices. Pattaya, alcohol, heat, sex, endless partying, and ambiguity can indeed drive punters mad. The collection of voices, essays, blogs, discourses, articles and observations may enable the discerning to avoid some of the most common mistakes people make in an extreme city like Pattaya. Even if given a mere, general read, the collection should act as a brake (and break) to and from the merry-go-round of endless sensation with little or no commitment. Although not overtly moralistic, the book is seriously comic and comically serious. Flippant cannot describe the tone of voice of "Mixed Massages (I)." Messages and massages abound and astound.

"Great Tits I've Known (And Other Species)" is the new edition of "Collected Selected Words" and is a combination of travel, memoir, autobiography and fiction, taking in three countries on its travels. It is also a book for ornithologists. Its humour and satire travel the world even ending up on the island of Cuba. Cambodia makes an appearance, too, and its hornbills get noisy. Overshadowing the book are the grim islands of Great Britain and the long Italian peninsular, but undaunted Jonathan Finch sings a song few birds can sing which embraces Thailand and especially Pattaya and its sensational nightlife. The birds described are not just great tits but hookers, ladyboys, masseuses and more. Reviewers have claimed that Finch sings with "apparent lightness and liquidity, gifting his readers with a very well-written memoir / travel book." He has received praise for being "a true navigator." His book is nothing if not honest.Jonathan Finch is a prize-winning poet, and has published several novels. He also edited the prize-winning novel "One-Two" by Igor Eliseev. He received his B.A.(Hons) at Bristol University and went on to spend many years as a lector at "La Sapienza," Italy's largest university. For the last ten years he has lived in Thailand.

Sexy Thai Bar Girls / Sex Adventures / Hookers / Ladyboys / Bars / A Go Gos / Pattaya Freelancers / Walking Street / L. K. Metro / Massage Parlours / Discos / And More (From An Author Who Has Been Living In Pattaya For Ten Years And Still Thinks He

""Love" Poems For Kathy: Green. Laced. Leaves." is a series of interrelated "love" poems that tell the story of troubled and obsessional love. For all poetry lovers and all those who have loved and lost, this collection will be of interest and value. Over a mere, few months, the poet Jonathan Finch wrote more than one hundred love poems for and to his femme fatale. ""Love" Poems For Kathy" is a sequence of interrelating love poems that tell the story of the poet's love and then hate for the woman who infatuated him. The poems trace the poet's early intense feelings for Katharine, but they quickly descend into a maelstrom of contradictory passions which leave the poet exhausted but creatively embroiled. The reader is free to trace the violent emotions that were born out of this love, the jealousy the poet feels for his woman's past, the negative tirades which plumb misogynistic depths, the pathetic realisation he has lost her, his plans to murder, his hallucinations, and his heartbreak. Throughout the trauma, love resurfaces weeping and is then buried once again under an avalanche of emotions that will leave the sensitive reader upset and anxious. "La belle dame sans merci" distances herself and the poet sees a man walking down a street "Where no street was, where no man was".In the 1970's and 80's, Jonathan Finch was singled out by editors and poets who published a great number of his poems in small magazines, pamphlets, and anthologies. He won prizes in British poetry competitions. When he was 33 he left the UK and has never been resident since. Reviewers have praised his previous two collections "Poems People Liked (1)" and "Poems People Liked (2)", expressing admiration for his poetic skills: "powerfully hewn poems" / "genuine, gripping, and beautiful" / "You can tell he's no amateur to poetry - every word is deliberate and meaningful".

"The Light Of Day (II)" is the second in a series. Prize-winning poet and published short-story writer and translator Jonathan Finch has collected these poems he put away over the years. His published work can be seen in "Poems People Liked (1)" and "Poems People Liked (2)." More of his previously unpublished poems are here, in "The Light Of Day (II)." Because of Kindle Direct Publishing and Createspace these poems have been able to see the light of day. Poetry was Finch's passion, and over the decades he wrote hundreds of poems. Many were published in literary magazines and anthologies by editors who admired his muse but even more remained unpublished. (Finch used to write one or two poems a day.) The internet revolution has enabled him to publish these poems which languished in darkness and longed for sunshine and for their light of day. Consistently given four and five stars by reviewers, Finch's style has been compared to Dickens', and recently David Wright wrote: "In a hundred years, scholars won't be studying bestselling thrillers to measure the pulse of our generation. But they might be studying Finch."The verse in this collection varies from metrical with rhyme to free verse, some of the latter experimental. The subjects are love, nature, guilt, suicide, death, the after-life, dysfunctional families, and more, but beyond the obvious, Finch strives to create beauty and order chaos.

"Mixed Massages (II)" is the second volume in a collection of short stories, essays and articles about Pattaya, Thailand and expat life. The author Jonathan Finch sets out to depict a Pattaya very different from the one advertised or vilified. His Pattaya is inspirational and sends out messages night and day but those messages are very mixed. Pattaya is alluring and may massage you into a false sense of security but in Pattaya's underbelly are the seeds of bedlam. The fun in Fun City comes at a cost, and fuelled by enormous amounts of drunkenness and desire, the enticing party going on in Thailand's extreme city, the lusts, the ladies, the gays, the cross-dressers, the nightlife and its glittering lures, are sucking away at the revellers, many of whom are unable to make rational choices. Self-awareness, moderation and thought are essential if balance is to be maintained. This second volume of Pattaya voices and vices includes an unlikely philosopher in Pattaya, comic ways of increasing Thai debt in the Isaan, observations on Pattaya's road-accidents, a dad dying of an overdose of Viagra, Einstein correlated with a tube, a discourse on leaving the toilet seat up, and more. Consistently given four and five stars by reviewers, Finch's style has been compared to Dickens', and recently David Wright wrote: "In a hundred years, scholars won't be studying bestselling thrillers to measure the pulse of our generation. But they might be studying Finch."Join in Finch's literary fun and appreciate just how dangerously inspirational his Pattaya can be!

A novel about adolescent love and trauma set in London and Scotland. Jim, the protagonist, tries to escape his past but finds it catches up with him. Love, sex, virginity, adolescent and adult understanding are explored against a background of stunning scenery and formidable weather.

People, that is editors, liked these poems enough to publish them in small-magazine format, or in books. Some come from a selection of poems published by Howard Sergeant of Outposts Publications. Some of the poems were highly commended or won prizes. The poems are lyrical, they sometimes rhyme, and some are in free verse. They try to compress words and they try to choose right words in right places. Their subject-matter is varied, ranging from imprisonment, nature, mortality, emotion, creativity, deviance, device, dysfunctional relationships and suicide. The first part of "Poems People Liked (2)" concentrates on "The Poison That Leads To Suicide" and singles out guilt as the predominant emotion leading to a wish to die. The second part, "Living," deals with just that, living, but concentrates on those experiences and those thoughts that a poet can elaborate on.

These love poems interlink and tell the troubled story of obsessional love. Lyrical and elegiac, they will please poetry lovers and will also interest people who wish to plumb the psychological depths of obsessional passion. Over a mere, few months, the poet Jonathan Finch wrote more than one hundred love poems for and to his femme fatale. "

This study of pre-1850 church monuments from Norfolk, aims to marry together the understanding of material artefacts developed in archaeology, with the detailed topographical, social and economic knowledge of a particular region, built up through landscape studies and local history, in a study of church monuments. As such, it stands out from the vast bulk of work on the subject, which is carried out within the discipline of art history.

Some Thoughts on Thinking is a work dealing with the issues one faces when one attempts to construct non-arbitrary beliefs about ourselves and our surroundings. The text opens up with a discussion of the similarities and differences between science, theology, philosophy and tradition. This initial discussion provides the foundation for a deeper push into what is, and what is not, a recommendable and non-arbitrary belief. No previous exposure to philosophy is assumed and the language of the work is free of complex philosophical terms.

This book presents a self-corrective and contemporary system of philosophy and attempts to explain how we might go about forming our thoughts and beliefs about ourselves, our world and how we should properly conduct ourselves in a justifiable and non-arbitrary fashion.