{"id":9326,"date":"2024-11-03T16:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=9326"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:39:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:39:38","slug":"the-gospel-of-gargoyle-by-james-harpur-art-by-paul-o-colmain","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=9326","title":{"rendered":"The Gospel of Gargoyle by James Harpur. Art by Paul \u00d3 Colm\u00e1in"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A poet residing at the Irish College in Paris has a series of dreams in which he flies to the rooftop of Notre-Dame cathedral and encounters a gargoyle. But not any old gargoyle: this one can speak, and he claims to be a lost spirit seeking salvation through a series of incarnations. Gargoyle and Poet become unlikely companions, bound by a pact: in return for the poet\u2019s visits and conversations on the great questions of life (conversations he hopes will free him from his stone incarceration), Gargoyle promises to reveal the answer to the question obsessing Poet: who or what caused the great fire of Notre-Dame in 2019.<\/p>\n


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\u2018I galloped through as if pulled by a silver thread. I loved the journey, the conversations, Gargoyle and his grumpiness and those storms over Paris. I was caught between having my breath taken away and wanting to gallop on with the story. The ending is sublime.\u2019 Alyson Hallett.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018The Gospel of Gargoyle<\/em> is a mighty dialogue of self and soul, a drama, a small epic …The ending is a little electric shock.\u2019                  from the Afterword<\/em> by Penelope Buckley<\/p>\n

Art by Paul \u00d3 Colm\u00e1in<\/strong><\/p>\n

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PRAISE FOR HARPUR\u2019S POETRY:<\/p>\n

\u2018The White Silhouette<\/em> is a resonant, moving pilgrimage of great beauty.\u2019 Martina Evans, The Irish Times<\/em>, Books of the Year<\/p>\n

\u2018His brilliant imagery and luxuriant natural descriptions offer plenty to enjoy.\u2019 Sarah Crown, The Guardian<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018I have rarely encountered a contemporary voice that brings out as strongly and convincingly as does James Harpur\u2019s in The White Silhouette<\/em> the way in which spiritual wrestlings and traditions can live again in poetry.\u2019 Michael O\u2019Neill, London Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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