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Reviews of works by Edouard d'Araille: Jamie Edwards [Reviewer] on 'Book of Jesus' Vol. I (2025)""Book of Jesus is a powerful and unique retelling of the life of Jesus, written in beautiful poetic verse. Edouard d'Araille has done an amazing job bringing the four gospels together into one flowing story that feels fresh, moving, and true to the original texts."" Damian Milton DD [Bible Scholar] on 'Book of Jesus' Vol. I (2025)""From the manner in which 'Book of Jesus' is written, with its usage of a wide variety of poetic forms and ever-tactful interplay of words and phrases evident throughout, this unified gospel in verse manages to make all the incidents it depicts come to life in the reader's mind in a way that prose cannot."" William Alderson [Reviewer] on 'Birth of Jesus' (2023)""The English is clear and precise, every line stays close to the canon Gospels. It takes getting used to the whole of the gospels being written in verse but I think it works well, especially where several different versions of an episode are combined into one."" Prof. Shlomo Izre'el [Scholar] on 'Adapa's Ascent' (2020)""This is a wonderful piece of work and a real contribution to reading literature. It is a really beautiful book."" Melissa Frost [Reviewer] on 'WMD: Words of Mass Destruction' (2017)""From the opening quote by George Orwell down to the post-finale 'The Last of London', this is a visionary and spectacular work of poetry [...]. This is an author from whom one never knows what to expect. He startles me at every turn with his outlooks on our Humanity."" James Hartley [Reviewer] on 'Words Can't Hold... A Decade of Poetry' (2010)""There isn't a single type of poetry missed out of this anthology collated from ten poetry collections by Edouard d'Araille - the tragic and comical, romantic and political, nonsensical and mystical are all in here. This author writes fearlessly and in a concise, punctual, gripping style."" Marianna Csoti [Reviewer] on 'Black Cab & Other Movies' (2004)""I enjoyed this book immensely. The book has a good mix of drama, comedy and suspense all worked into an ingenious plot. I fully recommend others to read it. It is a real gem."" Barry Page [Reviewer] on 'The Complete Poetic Works of Soma Amritah' (2002)""A text of the highest order. It is a beautiful poetic work that at a deeper level requires close reading to draw out the subtle meanings hidden within the text."" Prof. John Bayley [Scholar] on 'In a Short Space of Time' (1999)""It is technically fascinating and moving poetry.

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Contemporary English language poet Edouard d'Araille, born in 1974, released his first volume 'In a Short Space of Time: A Verse Cycle' in 1999. His début collection was followed by seventeen other full-length publications over the subsequent quarter century. Edouard d'Araille's poetic style varies noticeably between his works, though it is fundamentally unified in the use of concise verses, straightforwardly engaging vocabulary and an energetic playfulness of verbal structures. One of Edouard d'Araille's most noteworthy recent works is 'Adapa's Ascent' (2020), a translation of the Adapa legend from Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform tablets into modern English verse, which includes his essay 'The Birth of Fiction'. Edouard d'Araille has previously translated work from French (Alain Robbe-Grillet) and German (Stefan Zweig), while 'Book of Jesus' (2024) is wholly based on the Koine Greek texts of the four New Testament evangelists. For those new to the writings of Edouard d'Araille, the volume 'Je Suis Poëte' (2021) - now available in a newly revised edition - provides a retrospective overview of 25 years of poetry, featuring core extracts from most of his full-length publications. Before embarking on a career in poetry, Edouard d'Araille directed the feature-length documentary 'Last Year at Marianské Lazné' [aka 'Hotel Marienbad'] (1998) about the literary and cinematic fiction of Alain Robbe-Grillet, a series of experimental short films entitled 'Déja Vu' (1999) as well as music videos for Irish singer-songwriter Johnny Cronin. He was screenwriter for the Arts Council film 'Subtitled', by Greek filmmaker Anastassios Kavassis, and is the screenwriter of forthcoming feature film 'Crime Trap' (2026). He lives in the English market town of Wem.

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