Published 2023. Paperback, 198pp, 9 x 6ins, £14.95 / $23
ISBN 9781848618602 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]

Precisely between their God and the Devil, heaven and hell, white and black, the man of heart walks through.

“In the fifth century, Britain has been abandoned by the Roman empire. Threat-ened by raiders along its coasts, an army massing in the north, increasing numbers of migrants, self-interest and civil war, Britannia is disintegrating. Vortigern is given the task of saving the province. A Man of Heart is the second part of A Presentment of Englishry ; it continues to follow the narrative trajectory of La ȝ amon’s Brut , a late 12th century version of The Legendary History, the foundation myth of Britain.” —Liam Guilar

“The deconstructionist view of there being no single attainable truth about the past is worth bearing in mind as we become immersed in Liam Guilar’s moving reconstruction of the land called Britain in the long-gone world of the 11th and 12th centuries: there are merely the histories which people tell to empower themselves in the present. This is of course applicable both to history and to memory since everything we see is filtered through our present-day mental lenses and we interpret the past in the light of what we have now become.

[…] Liam Guilar’s reconstruction of the foundations of our past is a con-vincing sift of details that offers the reader a ‘morning familiar as cold stone’ with ‘Rain drifting through the smoke hole in the roof’.” —Ian Brinton, Long Poem Magazine

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