Posts Tagged "The Highwayman poem"
Highwaymen, Mariners and Vampires: My Favourite Poems
Today, I’m on the Author Allsorts blog sharing my top three poems. One of them won’t take much guessing (clue: it’s the poem that inspired Glimpse), but you can read my post here to find out the other two! They’re all classic narrative poems, a little romantic, and spookily Gothic, just like the books I love to read and the stories I love to write. Share this:FacebookTwitterGooglePinterestEmailPrint
UKYA Extravaganza Blog Tour: My First Video Interview!
Today’s my stop on the UKYA Extravaganza blog tour, and I’ve headed to Splustbookworms’ YouTube channel for an interview. We chatted all sorts, including Glimpse, writing YA fiction, and some of my favourite books. Thomas and Sophie of Splustbookworms have been brilliant — they’re loads of fun, as you can probably guess from the video! I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on their channel. Here it is… (Go easy on me – it’s my first ever video, eek!) Share...
Researching Highwaymen for GLIMPSE
I’m a little in awe of authors who write historical novels. Crafting a good story and researching all the details is some feat. I had a taster of that research with Glimpse, which is inspired by Noyes’ poem ‘The Highwayman’ (published in 1906 but set much earlier; probably the 1700s, which was the heyday of highwaymen). While I didn’t need a lot of historical information for my plot (which is mostly set in the present day), a chapter or two relied quite heavily on it, and I wanted to be able to throw in an occasional detail here and there. Here’s what my research looked like. Voice and Language I stumbled across the Huzzar...
The Highwayman Poem: YA Story in Miniature
This week’s YA Highway Road Trip Wednesday question: April is National Poetry Month! Share your favourite poem(s) or poet. This is a no-brainer for me, as without my favourite poem I would never have written my debut novel, Glimpse. Yes, I really do love it that much. The poem? The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes. Surely you’ve read The Highwayman. Here are the first few stanzas to jog your memory. The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees. The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas. The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, And the highwayman came...
Glimpse
Inspired by Alfred Noyes’ poem 'The Highwayman', Glimpse is a ghost story, a love story, and a story of overcoming trauma.
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About Kendra Leighton
I’m a YA writer and chocolatier. Glimpse, my debut novel, was inspired by Alfred Noyes' poem 'The Highwayman'. It was published in 2014.Read more...
