Geoff Ward
Geoff Ward is a British journalist, author, media consultant and musician who lives in the south-west of Ireland, and he has a Masters degree and a BA (Hons) degree in English literature. A former newspaper editor, he has been writing for UK newspapers and magazines for four decades. Since 2004, he has managed the website which he created as an appreciation of the best-selling British author Colin Wilson (www.colinwilsonworld.co.uk) and, in 2009, Geoff launched his own world mysteries website (www.mysteriousplanet.net). Geoff is the author of Spirals: the Pattern of Existence, an exploration of the prevalence and significance of the spiral form and pattern in nature and human culture, published by Green Magic in 2006 and which has an introduction written by Colin Wilson. In addition to English literature, Geoff’s key interests are philosophy, psychology, holistic science, cosmology, cinema, the songs of Bob Dylan, visiting heritage sites, playing the guitar and writing short stories. He is also a lecturer/tutor in literature and creative writing (fiction and non-fiction). Email Geoff at gjohnward@btopenworld.com
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New Editions of Franz Kafka from Oxford World's Classics
Two new translations of Kafka deepen our insight into one of the most influential but also one of the most enigmatic writers of the 20th century
Apr 23, 2012
- Geoff Ward
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Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding: Reform Through the Reader
How should we understand the relationship between the reader and the narrators of Samuel Richardson's Pamela and Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews?
Apr 16, 2012
- Geoff Ward
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Book Review: The Hidden Geometry of Life
Science and spirituality are bridged in an investigation of the secret geometry behind everything in the universe and how hidden harmonies underlie creation
Apr 3, 2012
- Geoff Ward
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Book Review: Hidden Stonehenge by Gordon R Freeman
The remarkable story of the discovery that two ancient monuments more than 4,000 miles apart were built similarly as calendars more accurate than ours today
Mar 23, 2012
- Geoff Ward
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Book Review: The Druid's Primer by Luke Eastwood
The immense wealth of Druidic knowledge and wisdom found in authentic ancient sources and Celtic mythology is distilled into one user-friendly volume
Mar 16, 2012
- Geoff Ward
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Towards a New Philosophy of Literature in the 21st Century
Poet, philosopher and cultural historian Nicholas Hagger on the universalist literary tradition, from ancients to moderns, and its vision of the infinite
Mar 7, 2012
- Geoff Ward
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Altered Estates: Mansfield Park and Castle Rackrent
How Jane Austen's and Maria Edgeworth's fictional mansions act as metonyms for cultural traditions under siege
Feb 5, 2012
- Geoff Ward
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Book Review: Demystifying Shamans and Their World
Two psychologists set the scene for a deeper understanding of shamanism and shamanic states of consciousness in which there is growing interest today
Jan 27, 2012
- Geoff Ward
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What's the Meaning of Moll? On Trading Terms with Daniel Defoe
Linguistic paradoxes extend even to Moll Flanders' true identity which, significantly, is kept from the reader in the eponymous eighteenth-century novel
Jan 24, 2012
- Geoff Ward
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Book Review: Turning the Wheel - Seasonal Britain on Two Wheels
'Bard on a bike' Kevan Manwaring takes a motorcycle tour around festal Britain to see how people mark the changing seasons with customs ancient and modern
Jan 17, 2012
- Geoff Ward
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