It's here Jam packed with poetry and prose by some of the world's leading authors, touching on current and timeless issues with seasonal poetry and stories, the Winter Issue of FM will delight, amuse, provoke, enlighten and soothe readers looking for answers or just for entertainment during the cold months ahead.

Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Alban (1561-1626), created the most infamous literary mask of all time, even affixing a spurious portrait to the title page of the printed First Folio ... William Shakespeare. The Dedicatees of the First Folio, William and Philip Herbert, Earls of Pembroke and Montgomery, and other kinsmen such as the celebrated Poet, George Herbert, were treasured friends of Bacon, affirmed in surviving documentation. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labour's Lost and As You Like It, subjects of this Volume of Essays, contain visionary autobiographical matter providing...

He Sits 'Mongst Men Like A Descended God (Volume Two) essays three First Folio Plays attributed by Academia to Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Hamlet and King Henry VIII. Francis Bacon, in an astonishing letter written to Count Gondomar, Ambassador from the Court of Spain, dated June 6, 1621, wrote: Now that at once my age, my fortunes, and my genius, to which I have hitherto done but scanty justice, call me from the stage of active life, I shall devote myself to letters, instruct the actors on it and serve posterity. The letters refer of course to the composition and revision of Plays for...

Welcome to the turbulent, emotion-packed sixties as you've never experienced them before. In author John Gardiner's groundbreaking and entertaining novel WHAAM a cast of multidimensional, vivid characters live through 1968, 1969 and 1970, journeying through history and deep into their own emotional lives, losses, and loves. Filled with references to popular culture, music, politics, film and more, WHAAM is a journey of the mind as well as the spirit. Because modern quantum physics insists that time does not exist, WHAAM is written in a fluid style, moving effortlessly from past to present....

Calling upon language and metaphor so rich in talent as to be nearly unrivaled among today's writers of literary fiction, John Gardiner gives us Tapestries, a novel that weaves threads of love, transformation, awakening, and passion. As if possessing the finest brushes and most exquisite eye, the author's eponymous main character radiates intellectual depth, as well as suppressed emotions. Attending a wedding, he espies a woman who shall soon control his heart. We follow him through the frustration of loving a woman who remains out of reach, during his periods of writing, which mark the...

Exiles is a novel whose powerfully evocative and headily descriptive language fashions a timeline of our cultural experiences through the Glam-era years of 1971, 1972 and 1973.Using language explosive with poetry, quantum physics, surrealism and music, the psyches of an amazing assortment of characters are heightened and transformed by the largely traumatic socio-political events of the era.