Sci-fi and Heroic Fantasy discussion

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"Witch Work" by Neil Gaiman

From the anthology Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman. See Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances discussion hub for more info on the anthology and pointers to discussion of its other stories.

Someone posted Chris Riddell's illustrations for this work. I feel like it adds a lot to what was a work I largely skipped over.

https://dreamexplosively.wordpress.co...

I didn't really like this one too much. Some of the poems in this collection are OK, but some of them are just tedious.

I definitely get the impression that Gaiman writes poetry because he truly enjoys it, not because there's a buying public for it.

I've heard a lot of weird preferences about specific authors, including a couple of people tell me their favourite part of Lord of the Rings is the poems, but I've never heard anyone recommend Gaiman on the basis of his poetry.