Michael Bloor

Welcome to this site which contains copies of all my previously published stories, essays and poems to which I hold the copyright




Crossing the Bridge with Thomas Tallis	The Deserted Painting	The Disappearance
	Late-Night Theological Breakthrough	Re-Reading ‘Lucky Jim’
The Last Man on the Island	Buffalo Bill's Day Out	An Encounter of Sorts
An Appreciation of Alfredo Epps’ ‘The Last Jacobite’	The Eyes	Searching for Unicorns
The Ferryman’s Tale	Two African Lessons	‘Young Love Grows Cold’
A Favourite Place: Innerpeffray, Scotland’s oldest free lending library, established 1680.	Rams in the Blood	Sunday Whoever – interview published in Literally Stories, Sept 10th, 2023
Authorship Down by Michael Bloor	The Ex-Poet	The Continuing Struggle
What’s in a name?	The Long Karaoke Night	Hindsight and Occupational Choices
My favourite forgotten book: ‘The House of the Wolfings’ by William Morris	Jack o’ Diamonds	A Strange Stone with a Strange History. An Essay by Michael Bloor
The Innocent Accomplice	Nemesis	The Smoothing Stream
May, 1967	An Historical Footnote	Double Dating
Midhowe Chambered Cairn	The Laird of Balwearie	Citizen Wyckam-Smith
Earwigging	The Wisdom of Work Placements	Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Life Coach
The Next Morning by Michael Bloor	The Trip to St Andrews by Michael Bloor	An International Incident
Role Call	Last Journey	The Otherworld Hiding Place
Tanker Talk	The Ominous Sweetie Jar	Chess Nuts
The Foot of Bennachie	James Leatham’s eyewitness account of William Morris’s 1888 visit to Aberdeen	The Questing Knight by Michael Bloor
SOUTH ATLANTIC CAREER CHANGE BY MICHAEL BLOOR	Agnostic Preview by Michael Bloor	Stirring Ambition
Wee Willie Winkie and the Sma’ Glen	Ambition	The Long Shadow of the Coal Tip
Captain Carey’s Luck	Sir Francis Bacon’s Belated Vindication	Under the Gooseberry Bush
The Talisman	Heroes	Witness Statement
Hubble, Bubble, Toilet Trouble	Fell at the First Fence	Making Chutney
Timing	Taproom Memories	The Cloud Forest
Working Title	THE OWL WOMAN	Crossing the Border, Long Ago
Maggot-Racing: the Sport of Kings	Mistletoe	William Blake’s Question
Incident Report	Auntie Pam’s Postcard	The Servants of the People
Bishop Shock at Inverallan Games	Memory, the Fickle Jade	Heterochromia in Charlie’s Living Room
Bishop Berkeley’s Theory of Abstraction	The Buffet Conversation Piece	The Man on the Train
REFLECTIONS AT AUCKLAND AIRPORT	The Ballad of the Menopausal Male	ART AND GOOD GOVERNMENT
AN EMAIL FROM TOMMY COOPER	Scott of the Yard	The Arrival of the Finnman
TWO LANDSCAPES AND A DISMAL SCIENCE	TAKING TEA WITH JOSEPH NEEDHAM	A PICNIC IN THE ELYSIAN FIELDS
Anton Chekhov and the Sakhalin Penal Colony	BACK TROUBLE	A Deed Undone
WUNNERFUL RADIO SHERWOO-OOOD	Note on the Fridge Door	The Night I Ordered the Smoked Eel
Hereford Cathedral Library	Last Game	A Misapprehsion
The Long Watches of the Night	The Reliquary of St Maelrubha	Posterity, Here I Come
PADRAIG NEILL AND THE LAST ISLE	The Poet’s Revenge	The Redeeming Flood
MACBETH, THE PILGRIM	The Visionary Librarian	Mother and the Minister
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG’S BACON DREAM	Delayed Shock	The End of the Tribe
Shakespeare Meets the Macbeths	The Great Book of Angharad	Maryhill Barracks, Glasgow, May 21st 1941
A Cloud Forest Tale	Twenty-First Century Mr Chips	The Divided Womb
Commuting in Warsaw	Fermain Bay	The Rogue Spruce
The Carpet Circular Affair	Happy Birthday, Dear Madame Blavatsky	The Rime of the Globalised Mariner. In Six Parts (with bonus tracks from a chorus of Greek shippers).
Mikhael Bulgakov’s “The Steel Windpipe” in A Country Doctor’s Notebook	Twenty Pounds a Completed Interview, Plus Expenses	The Aberdeen Kayak

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