Tag Archives: Jim Webster

Too nice? Another tale from Tallis Steelyard

Posted on February 10, 2017 by Sue Vincent

Talopian Hearsan was one of those people I just somehow never took too. I’m not sure why to be honest; he was always polite and respectful to a poet of my status. The problem was perhaps that he was too … Continue reading →

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Technical matters are best left to skilled tradesmen from Tallis Steelyard

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Sue Vincent

I confess I rarely have many dealings with erotic novelists. This isn’t snobbery on my part, it’s just they tend to be so much more generously remunerated than a mere poet. Still I do have a friend who is renown … Continue reading →

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Port Naain by starlight – from Tallis Steelyard

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Sue Vincent

Madam Alena was, at the time, my oldest patron. A petite slender lady with short cropped white hair; she would from time to time summon me to her home to entertain a group of her acquaintances These were never events … Continue reading →

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The Port Naain Philosophical and Debating Society for Ladies of wit and discernment – Tallis Steelyard

Posted on December 23, 2016 by Sue Vincent

As a less poetically inclined gentleman once commented, ‘My memoirs are not my confessions.’ These are sentiments I feel a certain kinship with, the duty of a poet is to draw attention towards that which is worthwhile, not to rub … Continue reading →

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Porphyrogenitus – another tale from Tallis Steelyard

Posted on December 3, 2016 by Sue Vincent

I don’t often deal with the new aristocracy. It’s strange really but with the old aristocracy who where here before the city was founded, I have no problems. But the new aristocracy, largely those who have been ennobled in the … Continue reading →

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A load of Bull from Tallis Steelyard

Posted on November 29, 2016 by Sue Vincent

People don’t realise what gifts they have, or what skills they possess. Sometimes they have the ability to do all sorts of things yet they never do them. Obviously I am a person with many capabilities, able to turn my … Continue reading →

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Knight Arrant? from Tallis Steelyard

Posted on November 25, 2016 by Sue Vincent

Have you noticed how some people might in themselves pose a problem, but are inadvertently the answer to a far larger problem? So you’re faced with the troubling realisation that you must somehow find a way to live with the … Continue reading →

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The advantages of a good education from Tallis Steelyard

Posted on November 24, 2016 by Sue Vincent

I have always been of the opinion that we should leave matters of state to the wise, as opposed to the merely strident or muscular. Indeed as I fail to fall into any of these three categories I feel that … Continue reading →

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A dish served cold from Tallis Steelyard

Posted on November 11, 2016 by Sue Vincent

As you all know I’m a man who makes a point of being smartly turned out. If you’re blessed with an elegant figure and can turn a fine leg, it seems silly not to allow the eye to dwell on … Continue reading →

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Nobody does it like that any more from Tallis Steelyard

Posted on October 30, 2016 by Sue Vincent

How does one promote a book? This question continued to nag at me as I went about my business in Port Naain. How on earth was I going to live up to my promise to ensure ‘A Bad Penny’ gained … Continue reading →

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