The Ram in the Thicket
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Subtitle Who Help Thamselves
By Adrian Brown
Published by
Hearing Eye
ISBN 978-1-905082-35-3
Summer 2010
Synopsis
An inspiring story, using both exciting narrative as well as humour, and exploiting the full riches of the English language, to retell the biblical myth of Abraham and Isaac. The calm strong leadership of the patriarch takes a giant step forward for humanity, by abandoning the bizarre horrors of pagan rituals, including child-sacrifice, into more rational but no less transcendent beliefs. The perils of Isaac and the anguish of his mother Sarah are vividly portrayed in sensuous mesmeric verse.
Author's Biography
ADRIAN BROWN has had a long career of directing for television and the theatre, winning an EMMY for “THE BELLE OF AMHERST”, and a BAFTA Nomination for “THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE”. THE SCHOOL FOR WIVES won ‘Best Production’ in the London Fringe Awards. He has also had two volumes of verse published, winning several prizes, including the Strokestown Festival. Brown was dubbed “Grand Master of the Knights of Verse” by the Eccentric Club of Great Britain.
Reviews
‘…..a book-length epic, in beautiful blank-verse, in places like a fantastic pastiche of Milton, where the story of Abraham and Isaac is told as a fertility myth,…..an analogue for our own time, an age where the young are still sacrificed by their elders, as in Wilfred Owen's The Parable of the Old Men and the Young…’ Andy Croft, Morning Star
‘Producing a blank verse narrative poem these days is unusual and ambitious enough to deserve commendation…’ Philip Pullman
‘…thank you for the opportunity to experience your acute insights…your book will be archived in my personal library…’ Professor Richard Dawkins
‘I don't see why you shouldn't become poet laureate.’ Claire Bloom
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