March 1st: The Feast of St. David of Wales
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
AT A MAN’S TABLE: Gastronomical Adventures with Arthur Machen
Darkly Bright Press is pleased to announce the publication of a new collection of periodical work by Arthur Machen. This new volume includes the complete culinary column Machen wrote for The Sunday Express in the late 1920s and additional fugitive pieces.
The collection will be available for preorder on Monday, March 3rd, and is limited to 40 copies.
NEW POETRY
Meditation After School by Joshua Alan Sturgill
A Nation in Exile: We pity, I think, not those who are most pitiable, but those who are most helpless. The Russian Church is now offering prayers not only for the soldiers of Russia but for the innocent beasts whose blood is being spilt during the war, they having done no harm. So one pities these poor children, who perhaps understand very little and suffer nothing much more than weariness and confusion; and yet one’s heart goes out more to the little boy of three or four, who clings to his mother’s skirt …