A Canadian-American occupied with the trade of writing for over 40 years, I started out as an advertising copywriter. I left that to study theater, then abandoned theatre for the introspective vocation of a life in words. I’ve performed in numerous solo and group readings, been published in half a dozen print and online journals, and self-published three books. All that by way of brief introduction. The blog’s the thing, and it’s a place to share some of my work.
(Please note: the three books listed below have the authorʻs name as “Max Randolph.” Future books will be listed as authored by Randolph Maxted.)
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Books by Randolph Maxted
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A Horse on the Moon is no longer available. It has been greatly revised and will be reissued shortly under the title “Lyricism of Desire.” It is a book of prose poems, fantasy flash fiction and mini-essays. Blending poetic narrative with a prose style I call dreamprose, many of these pieces are by turns hallucinatory, subversive, whimsical. I try to let words fly free to dance, using images to enlighten and entertain, and a fresh boldness of utterance to liberate the imagination.
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Autopsy on a Ghost combines speculative metafiction with neosurrealist dreamprose . . . weaving memoir, madness, fantasy, absurd realities in a haunting interplay of subversion and shadowed love.
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The Armor is the Garden takes me back to my poetic roots. Written over a period of 30 years, the poems here come from my earliest writings in British Columbia, my years in southern California, a six-month stint on a secluded beach in Hawaii in the late eighties, and from Tucson, Arizona, where I live.
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