Author Archives: Bob
Greetings from NYC!
From the Chelsea Market in Manhattan’s lower west side, to be more specific. About to begin the long wing home, which should have me back in good shape to get stuck into The Canterbury Tales, the Middle English Mystery Plays, a … Continue reading
The Glad Day Draweth Near
A Far Light now listed on the website of Cambridge Scholars Publishing As of this writing (from a brownstone Air BnB on the Lower East Side of Manhattan) I’m still proofing and indexing, but CSP has announced the forthcoming publication of A … Continue reading
Direct fee-transfer details
In case you might prefer to pay course fees by electronic transfer, here are my account details: account name: Robert DiNapoli BSB: 083-004 Acct No: 98-921-0332 Please be sure to let me know by email, including the name of the … Continue reading
Proof the Proofs
Galley proofs of A Far Light turned up this morning. That sorts my play-time for a bit. In final print-dress, baby’s weighing in at 450+ pages. Guess I wrote a book.
New MLS Courses for August
I’ll be taking a small holiday in July, but the MLS will be back in force with courses for the latter half of 2016 beginning from August. Here are the offering so far booked in: The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer’s … Continue reading
A Dust Jacket. A Palpable Dust Jacket.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing has just sent me a proof of my Beowulf-book’s dust jacket design. A long way to go yet: galley-proofs and indexing still to get through, but for now I can, briefly, put my feet up and feel accomplished.
The MLS Refectory Sesssions Continue
I’ve just got confirmation of room bookings for the next run of MLS Refectory sessions that will take us to mid-year. Same deal: Wednesdays 1-2, you bring $10, I bring some samples of a poet’s work, and we read and … Continue reading
A Short Break
As I enter the home stretch of preparing the final drafts of my Beowulf-book for publication, I will need to take a short break from regular teaching to give the job my full attention. That means, once my current run of courses … Continue reading
The Post-Modern Plight of the Modern University
I wrote this a while ago, and Arena Magazine published it last year, while I was in hospital recovering from my surgery. A pointless squawk, on the one hand, given how things continue to deteriorate in the corporatised university, but … Continue reading
Two New Courses Starting
Next week will see the start of two six-week courses: The Visionary Imagination Think of all the ways we extend our sense of sight along many different dimensions of experience and consciousness. ‘Oh, I see!’ we might laugh on getting … Continue reading