John Gartland

"I stand by my assertion that Gartland is by far the best of all the expatriate writers in Southeast Asia."

Paul Dorsey:

Review of "Different Drummers"

The Nation:

January, 2019, Bangkok.

Englishman, John Gartland, novelist, poet, university professor, and, former fringe playwright, has travelled widely, and had many occupations, from steel worker to Sales Director, since his Master's Degree in Elizabethan and Shakespearian Drama.

John's first dark, comedic novel, Orgasmus, is now out again, as an e-book on Amazon Kindle, and his latest noir satirical fiction offering, Resurrection Room, is now available from Amazon Kindle and Create Space.

Lizardville Productions published, in 2015, "Bangkok, Heart of Noir" as an e-book, on Kindle, a collection of John Gartland's poetry and Chris Coles' vivid expressionist paintings from the Bangkok night. It is a memorable and visually thrilling evocation of that glamorous, and dangerous city, which has become the undoubted centre of Asian Noir.

John's poetry and readings have earned him the tag, The Poet Noir, and he thrives on live performance. His first collection of poetry, Gravity's Fool (Assumption University Press) from 2007, has been reprinted numerous times.

His second collection, Poetry without Frontiers, a joint publication with Irish poet Tom Hodgins, was also published by A.U.P. and launched in 2008, in Ireland.

Blanc et Noir, a collection of John's poetry and the photography of Mark Desmond Hughes, appeared from Lizardville Productions on Amazon, in June 2016.

In 2019, a collection of John's poetry appeared in a book by Kevin S. Cummings called Different Drummers (Amazon) which also featured articles by Cummings on a range of other writers. John Gartland's poetry won him this review.

"I stand by my assertion that Gartland is by far the best of all the expatriate writers in Southeast Asia."

Paul Dorsey:

Review of "Different Drummers":

The Nation:

January, 2019, Bangkok.