12 August: release & live reading of books VI to VIII
Books VI, VII, and VIII of Cosmic Warlord Kin-Bright come out on Saturday 12 August!
On that day I will read these three books aloud live on Twitch starting at 20:30 GMT / UTC / Zulu. Once the live reading's done, I'll add the books to the file on itch (along with some minor tweaks and corrections to typos in earlier books).
If you haven't caught up, you can find the PDF of the poem so far for free (for free!), and you can listen to the previous books read aloud here:
These recordings, like the coming reading, are rough-and-ready material, with mistakes, pauses, and the occasional off-hand remark left in; they're not an audiobook, or a statement of the 'right' way to read the poem! (Really it should be read by someone with a better voice than me…)
What comes next? Well, the next narrative unit is the descent into the underworld, the κατάβασις, and also the key part of the romance (not a spoiler! the proem and the opening lines of Book I say this is going to happen). I'm slightly tweaking the poem's form for this part (only), in ways I'll discuss in future devlogs, and that means more time investment. I'm also considering going back and tidying up some formal details in Book I, which I wrote when I was less metrically proficient.
Image: Jehan de Grise, finished by 1344, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264, folio 58r, detail, made available under a CC-BY-NC 4.0 license.
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