About The Dark Trilogy by Chris Armstrong
A book that follows one man’s life might be an autobiography, but what is a book that traces the lives of two men?
The autobiographical fiction which makes up the longest book of the trilogy holds two histories of one man displaced by several hundred years, histories that interweave and come together in the Welsh mountains in the present day. And a part of one of those lives is traced further in the play for voices which makes up the second book. Book three brings our characters to a resolution of kinds.
Chris Armstrong has blended fact and fiction to create a complex story with many strands… a story of the sea, a story of passionate love, a story about a writer and a poet, a story about his friend and editor, and a story about the past: a past that the writer only understands completely at the very end of his anabasis – his journey away from the sea.
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Author Bio:
Chris Armstrong has had three careers, working as a merchant seaman and a farmhand on the farm in the mid-Wales mountains where he still lives, before reinventing himself as an information scientist working for the university, then for 30 years in his own company, and retiring to become a poet and writer. His first collection of poems in print, Mostly Welsh was published in 2019 (Y Lolfa). Although initially entirely focussed on poetry, his writing has branched into short stories and his first full length work of fiction, The Dark Trilogy was published at the end of September 2022 before a poetry chapbook, Book of the Spirit, in November 2022. His collection of short stories, When I Am Not Writing Poetry, and a further collection of poems, Lost Time, was published in early 2023. He has published in Storgy, Agenda and London Grip New Poetry.