Time, Wisdom, & Koalas

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New work of fantastic fiction from noted UK poet, fiction writer, painter, and musician David Miller.

“David Miller is a writer with not only fantasy, but a depth of feeling and philosophical content. Yet, one feels a sense of whimsy as well. What he imparts to the reader is often done with a gentle and beautiful subtlety that stays with one long after the book has been closed.” —Gloria Coates

“Meet Norm. E. T. A. Hoffmann didn’t write about koalas. He didn’t write about Norm. But in a parallel universe, where Herne Bay had been a concentration camp, he could have. David Miller wrote Norm. Or maybe Norm dreamt himself, because Norm is very wise. And he sleeps. A lot.” —Keith Jebb

“‘Despite what the first pages may suggest, this is most definitely not a children’s tale.’ Or so we’re told. It’s more like what Byron thought about ‘true poetry’: that ‘tis the part/ Of a true poet to escape from fiction’. David Miller escapes from fiction in ‘spirit dreams’ he learned from a certain Koala named Norman, who seems to have passed them along through a certain wombat named Archie. If I told you any more about David’s escapes you’d think I was making it up, or maybe that I just dreamed it all. But as David once said – I think he was at Felpham – ‘you can never tell about these things’.” — Jerome McGann

“It may be impossible to describe Time, Wisdom, and Koalas. It may be impossible even to think who might read such a book. But having written a book about philosophical frogs myself, I’m open to the possibility that there are sufficient numbers of wildly imaginative, erudite, fauna-loving readers ready for a serious romp through time, space, and the history of ideas, to make this odd book a best-seller.” — Gail Holst-Warhaft

Fiction.

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