The Shakespeare Code

Yes, Brothers and Sisters of the Code, The Agents are delighted to report that on….

11th January, 2012…

The Shakespeare Code received its….

17,000th View!!!

To add to our joy, Fellow of The Shakespeare Code, Eddie Linden…..

National Portrait Gallery.

 …….has been garnering rave reviews for his dazzling new collection of poems….

……FROM THE EMERALD ISLE!!!

The celebrated Irish biographer (and Co. Clare book-seller) Gerry Harrison, wrote,  in the highly prestigious  Irish Times, on Christmas Eve….

The thrust of personal experience propels this collection. Linden’s public readings or recitals can be theatre….

 

……but his integrity shines through….

After a bravura on-stage peformance, the poems can be appreciated further by a later, quieter look at the text, such as in The Miner, in tender memory of his father:

Your face has never

moved, it still contains

the marks of toil, deep

In blue. These slag heaps

now in green have

flowers instead of dust

and many men are buried here

whose shadows linger on.

Linden insists that….

…. ‘there is nothing intellectual in my poems; I never write unless I have something to say’.

When he says it, he says it directly – but he chooses his words with care, never suffocating his emotional conviction for his subject.

This impressive collection is timely, and brings together a body of work that helps to define this idiosyncratic but sensitive man…..

Even better is the piece by the distinguished Belfast novelist, Glenn Patterson….

In the New Year edition of the Belfast Telegraph he nominated A Thorn in the Flesh as….

THE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR!!

But don’t forget, Brothers and Sisters, that the FIRST review of this brilliant book was penned by our own…..

TRIXIE THE CAT….

WAY BACK IN SEPTEMBER 2011!!!

THREE MONTHS AGO!!!

 You can read her INTERNATIONALLY INFLUENTIAL review by clicking: HERE.

And her CLASSIC, NO PAWS BARRED interview with Eddie Linden, F. S. C., by clicking: HERE.

You can purchase Eddie’s beautiful book (£7.50) from his charming publishers, Hearing Eye, by clicking : books@hearingeye.org

(Tell them Trixie sent you…..)

The Shakespeare Code abhors all forms of boastfulness and self-aggrandisment….

But must, in fairness, observe that….

WHERE TRIXIE THE CAT LEADS…..

….. THE WHOLE WORLD FOLLOWS….

The Agents of The Shakespeare Code would also like to welcome…..

URUGUAY

NORTH MARIANAS ISLANDS

AMERICAN SAMOA

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

KENYA

GEORGIA

RWANDA

…..to its ranks, bringing the total number of participating countries to a magnificent…..

EIGHTY-FOUR!!! 

See: The Shakespeare Code Salutes the Nations!

Data rushed to The Code’s Head Office reveal that in 2011 most Brothers and Sisters of The Code lived in…..

 THE UNITED KINGDOM

But….

AMERICA

and CANADA

ARE FOLLOWING CLOSE BEHIND…..

If you haven’t yet visited the acclaimed….

SHAKESPEARE: THE MOVIE I

Then click: HERE.

To read SIMON CALLOW’S stunning review….

See DIRECTLY BELOW….