Works in progress

1946 poem

I've got a new song

and believe me it's the greatest ever written.

I've got the words.

You supply the music brother.

This database was inspired by my decision to place my contribution to The Electric Muse on the Internet. In preparing for the web the text of what I wrote in 1975, I found a number of things I said then that I'd quarrel with now. At the same time as putting The Electric Muse up on the web, I decided also to add other writings, like an examination of the myth of the pre-Christian origins of modern witchcraft, and the politics of the folk revival (which I'm now re-working as a doctoral thesis at the University of Liverpool, where my archives are stored), as well as a comprehensive selection of my poems and songs, composed over the past 50 years.

In addition to the above. my Iraq Human Shields play, Into the War Zone, is also viewable on the web, plus poems about the Holocaust, and a collection of love stories, The Joke.

To a writer, everything is work in progress, so a lot of what I include will be subject to amendment and contradiction.

At some time I want to correct the numerous errors in my two folksong collections, Songs of Toil and The Cruel Wars, as well as to put up a long-awaited collection of sea songs which was never published when the two earlier collections didn't live up to the publisher's expectations.

Don't be surprised if I issue a rebuttal of any or all of the above.

Note: All work is

The database is fully searchable, by clicking on the binocular

icon above.

On the web, use the search panel at the bottom of the first page of www.karldallas.com.