G. R. Grove

Storyteller Songs    by G. R. Grove
Price: $2.99 USD. 8130 words. Published on September 25, 2010. Fiction.
(2.40 from 5 reviews)
This is a collection of poetry taken from the "Young Gwernin" trilogy of the Storyteller series: historical novels about Britain and her bards in the years after King Arthur's death. If you haven't read them yet, you might want to start there, as some of these poems could be considered plot spoilers. On the other hand, you could just plunge in now and see how you like Gwernin's world...

Pryderi's Pigs and other poems    by G. R. Grove
Price: $2.99 USD. 18790 words. Published on September 8, 2010. Fiction.
(3.67 from 3 reviews)
This is my second poetry collection. Most of these poems are written in medieval fixed forms – one of my on-going quests being a search for ways of reproducing the sound and feel of medieval Welsh poetry in modern English. And yet, because the bardic art I practice is a performance art, these are in a larger sense not my poems at all, but merely pale imitations – poems preserved on paper.

The Ash Spear    by G. R. Grove
Price: $5.99 USD. 118810 words. Published on September 7, 2010. Fiction.
(4.17 from 6 reviews)
In 6th century Wales, the ash spear was a symbol of warfare and of manhood, but it also stood for awen, the poetic inspiration of the bards. As war comes to North Wales, bardic apprentice Gwernin must master all three of its meanings in order to keep himself and his friends alive. The Ash Spear follows him in the thrilling conclusion of this first trilogy in the Storyteller series.

Flight of the Hawk    by G. R. Grove
Price: $5.99 USD. 103170 words. Published on September 6, 2010. Fiction.
(4.60 from 5 reviews)
In the second book of the Storyteller series, bardic apprentice Gwernin and his friend Neirin mab Dwywei, the Poet-Prince who some call "Taliesin's Hawk", are sent on a diplomatic mission to the North of Britain. But some of the natives aren't too friendly...

Storyteller    by G. R. Grove
Price: $5.99 USD. 77450 words. Published on September 6, 2010. Fiction.
(4.33 from 6 reviews)
“Blood and fire, gold and steel and poetry, a river’s voice in the silence of the night, and the shining strings of a harp – all these and more I have known in my time.” As a wandering storyteller and would-be bard in 6th century Britain, young Gwernin encounters enemies both human and supernatural, finds love and friendship, and learns the true meaning of a Bard’s profession.

King Arthur's Raid on Hell and other poems    by G. R. Grove
Price: $2.99 USD. 15690 words. Published on September 2, 2010. Fiction.
(3.50 from 2 reviews)
Most of these poems are written in medieval fixed forms, or approximations of medieval forms – one of my on-going quests being a search for ways of reproducing the sound and feel of medieval Welsh poetry in modern English. And yet, because the bardic art I practice is a performance art, these are in a larger sense not my poems at all, but merely pale imitations – poems preserved on paper.