The following is a video recording of the panel discussion called Heartwood: Robert Holdstock and Telling the Matter of Britain, which happened on the 2nd of September, 2011 in the British Library in London.

The panel is introduced by Sarah Biggs, the partner of Robert Holdstock. The panel consists of Lisa Tuttle, Stephen Baxter, Donald E. Morse, and Paul Kincaid, and is chaired by Graham Sleight.

Greg Humphries handled the camera, and the video is edited by Felix Jude West.

The cover art shown is courtesy of Alan Lee, John Howe, and Geoff Taylor, and the photographs are supplied by Sarah Biggs.

Tags: British Library, critique, Donald E. Morse, Gragham Sleight, Heartwood, Lisa Tuttle, Paul Kincaid, review, Sarah Biggs, Stephen Baxter, video
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Over the past year digital editions from Rob’s catalogue of works have been made available for the Kindle.

Here is the current update of what’s available, with new titles forthcoming. A link to where you can buy the e-book is also on the individual book page on this site:

The Mythago Cycle

• Mythago Wood E-book from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
• Lavondyss E-book from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
• The Bone Forest E-book from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
• Avilion E-book from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk

The Merlin Codex

• Codex Merlin – Intégrale New French Edition from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr

The Night Hunter series

• The Shrine – Night Hunter 4 E-book from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
• The Hexing – Night Hunter 5 E-book from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk

Other Fiction

• Ancient Echoes E-book from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
• The Emerald Forest E-book from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
• Eye Among the Blind E-book from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
• The Fetch E-book from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
• Where Time Winds Blow E-book from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk

Tags: Amazon, Codex Merlin - Intégrale, e-books, kindle, Merlin Codex, Mythago Wood, Night Hunter, other fiction
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During summer 2013 a new collection of poetry by Rob and his friend Garry Kilworth, will be published by PS Publishing. It will not be available for pre-order until May 2013.

It’s called Poems, Peoms and Other Atrocities. Rob thoroughly enjoyed writing these poems – and ‘peoms’ (poems which, in his view, didn’t quite make it and were just a bit of fun) – in the last two years of his life. We hope you will derive as much enjoyment from them as he did! Rob hugely admired Garry Kilworth’s poems, and he would have been thrilled to have them alongside his in this volume.

As a taster, here is his poem, ‘The Passing of the Alpha‘, which is part of the anthology:

In memory of David Biggs 1926-2009

I was not there
when he walked over the hill
and the light of dusk took his shadow.

He paused for a moment
at the top of the road

thinking of his girls

the tall, broad man, the rock
of his family,
moving quietly through
the stillness;
walking down
to a place we can only imagine.

Imagination, image, magic,
root memory,
that is the old boy now.

His shade,
is one more shadow
in a woodland glade
the dreaming place:
his voice, calm memory,
the alpha purr,
a whisper of love,
and when needed,
a sharp note of direction.

At the break and set
when the light is perfect
we will see the tall man on the hill
crossing the border —

and though he faces away from us
as he must
his breath is the wind of life, and still

and still,
and still.

Old wolf.

RH, July 2009

Tags: anthology, Garry Kilworth, Peoms and Other Atrocities, Poems, PS Publishing
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The British Fantasy Society announced the recipient of the first The Robert Holdstock Award (for Best Fantasy Novel):

• Among Others by Jo Walton (Tor Books)

A full list of all the winners of the 2012 BFAs is available on its web site.

This year’s BFAward Judges were: James Barclay, Hal Duncan, Maura McHugh, Esther Sherman, and Damien G. Walter.

Tags: Among Others, BFS, British Fantasy Awards, Jo Walton, The Robert Holdstock Award
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