Pass the Poison Separately by Oswell Blakeston

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Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. Many of Blakeston's books are dedicated to his longtime partner, the artist Max Chapman, who also provided illustrations to a number of the volumes. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. However, the Henry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin is home to an archive of Blakeston materials available to researchers (see external link below). He also authored a number of travel books.īlakeston's work was produced for small press and specialty publishers and is no longer in print. The novels are wide-ranging, and include a number of works that mix gay themes with suspense and detective plots.īlakeston was a contributor to John Gawsworth's anthologies, and a collaborator of M. From 1929 he was also publishing under the Blakeston name novels and stories, producing about 15 books of fiction, as well as ten collections of poetry. He then edited the little magazine Seed with Herbert Jones, and wrote detective fiction with Roger Burford, under a pseudonym Simon. In 1930 he made with Francis Bruguière the short abstract film Light Rhythms, which is extant.

He then edited Close Up magazine from 1927 to 1933, founded by Pool Group members, Bryher and Kenneth Macpherson, with H. Any Old IronAnthony Burgess, FingersOswell Blakeston. He started work in films at Gaumont Studios, as a colleague of David Lean. The Consolidated Statutes Of The Dominion Of New Zealand: Passed In The Eighth Year Of The Reign.

Pass the Poison Separately by Oswell Blakeston