World Book Day 2021


 It's World Book Day so I have plucked some books off the shelves to share a few stories and a poem with you. In order of appearance they are:

"King of Lies" from an anthology called Children of the Salmon, by Eileen O'Faolain (a collection of Irish legends and folk tales.

"River God", a poem by Stevie Smith in the Penguin Poetry collection.

"The Widow's Son" from an anthology called Twenty Folk and Fairy Tales from East to West, collated by Charles Folkard (this one would give a Jungian a field day in analysing its symbolism, and probably give a feminist apoplexy). The story is originally Greek, though the setting  does not make this obvious.

"The Tale of the Parasite", from The Book of the Thousand Nights and One - the stories of Shahrazad. This version is translated by Powys Mathers from an earlier version by J C Mardrus.




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