Clarendon House Publications

14/08/2025

NEW RELEASE FROM CLARENDON HOUSE PUBLICATIONS!
POETICA # 25: AN INNER CIRCLE WRITERS' GROUP POETRY ANTHOLOGY
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There is a common assumption among poets and readers generally that ‘There is no market for poetry.’ I hear this regularly.
This idea arises because, in the big world of publishing, poetry is seen to be a private, highly subjective affair which correspondingly does not sell well. Personal tastes, obscurity of form, and lack of poetic craft all add up to poetry being ‘shoved into the corner’ and usually only self-published or produced as a vanity piece.
This is a shame. There are a great many good poets out there: thousands of voices whose passionate visions of reality are not finding a proper outlet. Without channels to transmit these visions to readers, they can eventually fall silent.
The effort of this series of Poetica anthologies is to contribute to the creation of a market for poetry throughout the calendar year. The idea is that, by providing a regular, published venue for poetry from all over the world, poems as media for the communication of important and heartfelt ideas and reflections will gain in respect and become more widely acknowledged. Voices will be heard; channels will be opened.
Poetica # 25 features the work of Peter Kenny, Marlene Fabian Stiles, Craig Richard Tickner, Afshan Aqil, Sultana Raza, Jacek Wilkos, Heather Brown, Tony Fyler, Trish Parkinson, RLM Cooper, Gabriella Balcom, Fhen M., Linda Sparks, Justin Wiggins, Diane Bright, the Birch Twins, Irma Kurti, Jim Bates, Mike Turner, Amrita Skye Blaine, David Painter, DJ Elton, Mary Grace Hidalgo Abogado, Michal Reiben, Allan Tierney, Kerri Jesmer, Jan McCulloch, Anhait Arustamyan, Catherine A. MacKenzie, Maria J. Estrada, Kelli J Gavin and Thomas R. Bates.
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14/08/2025

In the early 1990s I was making a living as a business consultant in London. I worked with several small businesses, mainly in North London, the West End and the City, ranging from a camera shop through to a tele-sales operation. Most of them were large enough to have about a dozen or so employees, but small enough so that the business’s owner or founder still had to be involved on a daily basis…

In the early 1990s I was making a living as a business consultant in London. I worked with several small businesses, mainly in North London, the West End and the City, ranging from a camera shop through to a tele-sales operation. Most of them were large enough to have about a dozen or so employees,....

13/08/2025

I had had some experience of marketing before I was making a living as a business consultant in London, but it was in London that the practicalities of marketing first struck me.

Amongst other things, I am a consultant in business and personal effectiveness with about 30 years’ experience in human resource and organisational management within small and medium-sized enterprises in the UK, Australia and the U.S.A. specialising in organisation design, staff development, training and counselling…

I had had some experience of marketing before I was making a living as a business consultant in London, but it was in London that the practicalities of marketing first struck me. Amongst other things, I am a consultant in business and personal effectiveness with about 30 years’ experience in human...

12/08/2025

As we have seen in earlier articles, That Hideous Strength, the third novel in Lewis's so-called 'Space' trilogy, is actually a well-constructed thriller. Lewis has two protagonists. Mark and Jane Studdock, following parallel lines as one becomes embroiled with the evil agency N.I.C.E, while the other becomes acquainted, at the same time, with the company at St. Anne's. Later we discover that the company is benign, but, in true political thriller style, we are left guessing until Lewis is ready…

As we have seen in earlier articles, That Hideous Strength, the third novel in Lewis's so-called 'Space' trilogy, is actually a well-constructed thriller. Lewis has two protagonists. Mark and Jane Studdock, following parallel lines as one becomes embroiled with the evil agency N.I.C.E, while the oth...

11/08/2025

IT'S HERE!
ISSUE # 79 OF THE INNER CIRCLE WRITERS' MAGAZINE!
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They’re here! The final three entries for the Great Clarendon House Writing Challenge 2025! Go to page 12 and read all three - then VOTE for who you think should win the Challenge this year!
And there’s lots more in this issue including the short story ‘Les Letters De Citron’ by Alexander Marshall, and the next chapter in Kenneth Grahame’s classic The Wind in the Willows, plus Master Author Showcase featuring Part One of D. H. Lawrence’s short story ‘The Prussian Officer’.
Your Author Prospectus introduces you to the vital concept of positioning in relation to marketing your work.
Your Biggest Challenge As A Writer gives you a ‘No Time to Write’ First Aid Programme.
And there’s more of course!
Enjoy!
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11/08/2025

Out of the Silent Planet, Voyage to Venus and That Hideous Strength are in fact three different attempts to accomplish the same transformative shift for readers from slightly different angles…

Out of the Silent Planet, Voyage to Venus and That Hideous Strength are in fact three different attempts to accomplish the same transformative shift for readers from slightly different angles. In the first, Lewis employs the medium of ‘pure science fiction’, drawing on its Wellsian imagery, fami...

09/08/2025

‘Sizeism’ is a coined term to describe the prejudice which seems in-built in a modern conception of the universe and its nature. As we continue to explore space through increasingly sensitive technologically capable devices, we commonly come across the viewpoint C. S. Lewis describes in his book Miracles about the immensity of the cosmos…

‘Sizeism’ is a coined term to describe the prejudice which seems in-built in a modern conception of the universe and its nature. As we continue to explore space through increasingly sensitive technologically capable devices, we commonly come across the viewpoint C. S. Lewis describes in his book...

08/08/2025

Your weekly newsletter is here!
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08/08/2025

Writing and selling books is a business, whether you like it or not. The writing is where the product is created; the selling is a commercial activity, a trade considered in terms of its volume or profitability.

In order to market your business - and indeed, in order to more fully understand and enjoy what it is that you do yourself - it is wise to develop what is called a ‘business narrative’. This is a back story for your business, and it really is a story, with characters, a plot and an overall ‘feel’ which will be incredibly useful to you in marketing yourself and what you do.

Here are some questions that will help to get you started on putting a business narrative together…

Writing and selling books is a business, whether you like it or not. The writing is where the product is created; the selling is a commercial activity, a trade considered in terms of its volume or profitability.In order to market your business - and indeed, in order to more fully understand and enjo...

07/08/2025

There are three basic types of businesses: those which are driven by products, those which are driven by markets, and those which are driven by media…

There are three basic types of businesses: those which are driven by products, those which are driven by markets, and those which are driven by media. 1. Product-driven. These are the businesses or organisations which survive and expand simply because they produce something which a large body of peo...

06/08/2025

Out of the Silent Planet was Lewis’s first attempt to use the tool of a novel to try to convey to an audience something of his ‘almost-felt, wholly imagined’ transition from the ordinary world to one centred upon the divine. By using the contemporary device of a space journey, in the popularly accepted sub-genre of science fiction, Lewis thought he could pretend to take readers outside the orbit of the Moon and show them, ‘first-hand’, what it might be like. By making this use of a science fiction novel an explicit piece of apparatus in the story itself, ‘concocted’ by a ‘real’ Ransom and Lewis the author as a means of warning readers about the ‘truth’, we see how this was positioned for Lewis himself: it was a serious matter. He would try any literary mechanism to try to bring about some kind of realisation in an audience that what he was talking about was ‘true’ in an objective sense. Soon, he would use children’s literature to attempt the same thing, but for now, he had two sequels to write.

Before we can appreciate the second in the trilogy, though, it would help to clarify exactly what Lewis felt he was moving from, and towards. What exactly was happening culturally around Lewis that urged him to make his Dantean argument so passionately?

Out of the Silent Planet was Lewis’s first attempt to use the tool of a novel to try to convey to an audience something of his ‘almost-felt, wholly imagined’ transition from the ordinary world to one centred upon the divine. By using the contemporary device of a space journey, in the popularly...

05/08/2025

Out of the Silent Planet, published in 1938, was Lewis’s first novel and our first glimpse of how he would use fiction to express what he found so difficult to describe in letters, namely the precise effect that Dante had had upon him. It’s not only the plot that is interesting; the techniques Lewis uses to engage us so that he can convey his deeper notions are also fascinating…

Out of the Silent Planet, published in 1938, was Lewis’s first novel and our first glimpse of how he would use fiction to express what he found so difficult to describe in letters, namely the precise effect that Dante had had upon him. It’s not only the plot that is interesting; the techniques L...