Contents:
Phony Express * Like a Rhino Cowboy * Short Western Poems * Fables from Farout Stables * Honky Tonk Squonk * The Gunfighters * The Narrow Path to the Far West * Tom Cabin's Uncle * For a Few Hollers More
Contents:
The Forest Chapel Bell * In the Margins * Three Friends * The Duvet Thief * Trombonhomie * The Urban Freckle * The Purloined Liver * Madonna Park * Journey Through a Wall * Bridge Over Troubled Blood * A Girl like a Doric Column * Telegram Ma'am * The Tell-Tale Nose * The Banker of Ingolstadt * The Spanish Cyclops * The Macroscopic Teapot * Climbing the Tallest Tree in the World * Two Fat Men in a Very Thin Country * Finding the Book of Sand * Niddala * The Minotaur in Pamplona * The Candid Slyness of Scurrility Forepaws * Sending Freedom Far Away * Anton Arctic and the Conquest of the Scottish Pole * The Six Sentinels * Degrees of Separation * The Mirror in the Looking Glass * The Strings of Segovia * Loneliness * Rediffusion * The Gunfight * The Grave Demeanour * The Yeasty Rise and Half-Baked Fall of Lyndon Williams * How to Lose Friends and Alienate People * The Blue Jewel Fruit * The Pastel Whimsy * The Soft Landing * The Taste of Turtle Tears * The Prodigal Beard * The Unkissed Artist Formerly Known as Frog * No Fury * The Belly Orchard * Chopsticks * Silky Salathiel * All Your Belongings * The Partial Rapture * The Chimera at Home * Dogears
"Rhys Hughes seems almost the sum of our planet's literature... As well as being drunk on language and wild imagery, he is also sober on the essentials of thought. He has something of Mervyn Peake's glorious invention, something of John Cowper Powys's contemplative, almost disdainful existentialism, a sensuality, a relish, an addiction to the delicious." — Michael Moorcock
“It’s a crime that Rhys Hughes is not as widely known as Italo Calvino and other writers of that stature. Brilliantly written and conceived, Hughes’ fiction has few parallels anywhere in the world. In some alternate universe with a better sense of justice, his work triumphantly parades across all bestseller lists.” — Jeff VanderMeer
“If I said he was a Welsh writer who writes as though he has gone to school with the best writing from all over the world, I wonder if my compliment would just sound provincial. Hughes’ style, with all that means, is among the most beautiful I’ve encountered in several years.” — Samuel R Delany
A book of verses written for monstrous doodles drawn during the summer of the pandemic year 2020.
Samples of pages and an interview about the project can be found at Borderless Journal.