R. J. Dent

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R J Dent is an English writer of fiction and non-fiction.

His stories, poems and essays have appeared in publications including Writer’s Muse, Orbis, Chanticleer, Agenda, Panda, Roundyhouse, Quazen, Authspot, and Philosophy Now.

His first novel, Myth, is a dark fantasy/horror story set on a Greek island. It was published in July 2006.

He has translated Le Comte de Lautréamont's The Songs of Maldoror, Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil, and Alcaeus's Poems & Fragments into English.

• Myth (2006)

• A Triumph (2002) Writer's Muse
• Jordy Michaels Leaps the Great Divide (2004) Philosophy Now
• More to the Picture (2006) Writer's Muse
• Chest of Wonders (2006) Express Art Gallery
• Mimique (2007) AWEN
• 9/11 Considered as the First Turn in a Game of Darts (2007) Authspot
• The Purple Butterfly (2008) Writer's Muse
• For Heart's Sake (2008) Authspot
• Yellow Bandana (2008) Authspot
• The Short Story (2008) Writinghood
• Tally (2008) Authspot
• Windows (2008) Authspot
• On The Bus (2008) Authspot
• The Six Letters of Henry VIII (2008) Authspot
• Echoes (2008) Authspot

• Alcaeus: Poems and Fragments (2012)
• Comte de Lautréamont: The Songs of Maldoror (2011)
• Charles Baudelaire: The Flowers of Evil (2009)

• A Collaboration of Unlike Minds: Robert Graves’ and William Blake’s The Tyger (2006) Roundyhouse
• You who magically make supple the old bones of the after-hours drunkard trampled by the horses’ – an essay on translating (2006) Agenda
• Violence and exquisite beauty – the aesthetics of Roy Campbell (2006) Agenda
• J. G. Ballard and the fiction of enclosed space (2007) Quazen
• The Life, Death and Afterlife of Richard Bachman(2007) Quazen

• Moonstone Silhouettes

• Sade: Sex and Death - Essays on the Marquis De Sade
• The Blood Delirium: The Vampire in 19th Century Literature
• 'Introduction: The Rolling Stones and Jeremy Reed' in Voodoo Excess: Rolling with the Stones by Jeremy Reed

• R J Dent - http://www.rjdent.com
• Myth - https://web.archive.org/web/20070207130542/http://www.rjdent.com/novels.htm
• Jordy Michaels Leaps the Great Divide - http://www.philosophynow.org/issues
• A Collaboration of Unlike Minds: Robert Graves’ and William Blake's The Tyger - http://www.rjdent.com/thetyger.htm

• Official website