John Kefala-Kerr » Writing http://johnkefalakerr.com Wed, 31 Dec 2025 05:44:31 +0000 en hourly 1 2 Poems http://johnkefalakerr.com/httpsporridgemagazine-com20230307two-poems-john-kefala-kerr http://johnkefalakerr.com/httpsporridgemagazine-com20230307two-poems-john-kefala-kerr#comments Fri, 09 Jun 2023 04:31:55 +0000 JKK http://johnkefalakerr.com/?p=3621

Mohair Silk Iona Wool and Handwoven Handmade Button published in Porridge Magazine

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Poem longlisted for the Live Canon International poetry prize.

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Poem published in Arachne Press’s anthology What Meets the Eye.

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“A marvellous, epic, symphony of a novel” Richard Francis

Fish  is an idealistic young musician whose life is in meltdown. Gabrielle is  an archaeologist who has uncovered something frightening and needs to  get away. The couple escape to economically decimated Greece where they  take up residence at the abandoned house of Fish’s late father, Thimio.

The arrival of a rebellious lifeguard, a love-struck schoolteacher and an Albanian puppeteer, prompts Fish to follow his utopian dream of  creating a new society. But as the heat of the Greek summer rises and  tensions in the fledgling ‘republic’ increase, the unspoilt Aegean  shoreline plays host to a series of unexplained events that threatens  the future of the community.

With the sounds of Fish’s imaginary orchestra playing throughout,  Thimio’s House builds towards an emotional crescendo and a shocking  revelation.

Lyrical and satirical, funny and sad, sensuous and intellectual, gentle  and traumatic, John Kefala Kerr’s remarkable debut novel is about the  raw unhappiness of modern society and an ancient vision of utopia.

]]> http://johnkefalakerr.com/thimio/feed 0 Time and the Ragworm http://johnkefalakerr.com/time-and-the-ragworm http://johnkefalakerr.com/time-and-the-ragworm#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:48:37 +0000 JKK http://johnkefalakerr.com/?p=1580

Manchester’s Faculty of Life Sciences podcast about the Moon features my poem Time and the Ragworm and an extract from Eight Bells: Elegy for Violin and Soundtrack.

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Title

WKD2 (2010)

Description

Flash Fiction (600 words)

An advertising executive falls into a reverie while listening to Rachmaninov’s Vocalise on his car radio.

Published

In issue 1 of Friction Magazine & Journal

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Title
An Election Blog.

Description
A fixed-term blog for BBC Radio 4 Today programme covering the 2004 UK General Election.

Tues 5th April 2004

Woke up.

Became election blogger for Radio 4 Today programme.

Had muesli.

Switched on radio to listen to Today programme.

Rang Dad (83) to tell him about me being a BBC blogger. Dad said he was excited about getting his two hundred quid from the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Composed celebratory piano sonata comprising two hundred notes—one for each rebated to pensioners in budget.

Read the blog

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