An Epic in Verse - guest post from Mary Soon Lee

An Epic in Verse

Mary Soon Lee

Once upon a time,fantastical epics were written in poetry: the Epic of Gilgamesh (aboutfour thousand years old), the Iliad (about three thousand years old),the Mahabharata (about two thousand years old), Beowulf (a merethousand years old). Nowadays, however, we expect our epic fantasy in prose,often as a series of hefty volumes. But in 2013, I started writing a group ofpoems that grew into my own epic fantasy, The Sign of the Dragon, whichtells the story ...

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