Books by Gavin Bantock
Bagatelles • White • Sonnets to Ganymede • The Old Woman of the Sea • Third Form at St. Claire’s
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Bagatelles
by Gavin Bantock
A light-hearted collection of concrete poems based on music, mathematics & the alphabet. The majority of these were written on a single Christmas Eve during the mid 1970s using a simple typewriter on which all the complex line-spacings had to be calculated manually, the rest some forty years later on an Apple computer… Read more
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White
by Gavin Bantock
A collection of new poems based on the common theme of white, with occasional couplings to red and black… Read more
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Sonnets to Ganymede
by Gavin Bantock
A cycle of fourteen poems using the traditional sonnet form and slant rhyme (assonance), in which the author intertwines fiction, reality and intense emotion in an attempt to describe his feelings for the series of ‘Ganymedes‘ encountered or imagined over a period of some sixty years… Read more
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The Old Woman of the Sea
by Gavin Bantock
Bruce Dinwiddy, twenty-three, an aspiring poet but innocent of the world, has been given permission by his father to stay at the family holiday house at the very edge of the sea. He has invited there his young friend Stephen Pewit, who at nineteen is already a failed child-prodigy, a drop-out and an incorrigible rebel… Read more
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Third Form at St. Claire’s
by Gavin Bantock, writing as Enid Bantock
A wacky Enid Blyton Spoof. A girls’ boarding school with a big, big difference. By far the funniest book of the series… Read more
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