The Reading Life Review - October, 2017 .

I found an unexpected balance when I did my collage of authors for October, nine women, nine men, nine living, nine dead.  I posted upon works by one Russian, two Irish writers, four Americans and four Canadians, six from England and one Hungarian.  Five are among the great poets of the world, all my poets for October are dead.  

Column One, far left

1. Micha Berdyczewski - from Russia.  Yiddish Short Stories 
2. Billy O’Callaghan - Irish, The House of Dead
3. W. B. Yeats - Irish
4. Robert Browning - English

Column Two

1. Zoe Greenberg- Canadian
2. Allan Ginsberg- USA, Howl and other Poems
3. Paiya Satia - USA, historian specialising in the industrial revolution 

Column Three

1. George Saunders -  USA, Lincoln in the Bardo, 2017 Book Prize Winner
2. Amy Balog -  Hungary, Sleeping Village
3. Christina Rossetti- England, The Goblin’s Market

Column Four

1. Lord George Byron. -  England
2. Keisha Jaranczyk - Canada
3. Anna Milduchawsk - Canada
4. Percy Shelley - England 

Column Five

1. Jenny Zhang - USA, Sour Heart, great debut Short Story Collection
2. Anna Miduchoeska - Canada
3. Zadie Smith - England, Swing Time, NW, On Beauty
4. Malcolm Lowry - England,  Under the Volcano, masterpiece 

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In November I will be focusing on German Literature.  

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