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Odds Bodkin Substack features new projects including his epic poem, The Rowan Canticles: A Tale Told In The Ancient Manner, one Canto per week. About the length of Homer's The Odyssey, the work features various rhyme schemes and hidden word games.
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How the Brain Lights Up (opens the original)
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On Performing The Odyssey (opens the original)
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A thousand times I’ve scrunched up my face, shut my right eye and entered the mind of Polyphemus, the famous cyclops from The Odyssey. While I’m doing this I’m playing a Taylor 12-string guitar which delivers thunderous atonal howls as part of the score. Take a listen at: https://www.oddsbodkin.net/shop/the-odyssey-collection-parts-i-ii-iii-iv/This video clip describes the difference between third person narrative and first person character acting in storytelling.—Odds
Myths (opens the original)
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This little video talks about what myths do.
Day by Day, I am Preparing (opens the original)
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Day by Day, I am PreparingDay by day, I am preparing. My hands. My stamina. My dormant muse. On October 16th I’ll return to performing stories with guitar music, voices and narrative. These past nine months were the first months in over forty years when I haven’t walked onto stages from behind curtains, 12-string guitar strapped around my neck, wearing black show clothes. Just beyond the lone chair out there in my pool of light will wait two microphones, stage left for voice, stage right for ins
ODDS BODKIN IS BACK! (opens the original)
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Hello Friends on Substack,It’s almost over. I can walk without a cane, unassisted! Not very far, mind you, but my long recovery from near-death sepsis in December is ending. Tomorrow, the 30 staples along my frankensteinian knee suture will be removed. I’ll have a dandy scar, but autumn is coming. I’ll be wearing long pants anyway. The knee, by the way, is titanium.Odds’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, conside
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