The best (including quite the worst) of Didymus - John Moat

For thirty years, John Moats Resurgence brief has been to contribute levity to the magazines serious business of imprinting a green complexion on what planet earth claims as consciousness. The sustainability of the Didymus column has served as keynote for the entire alternative movement. But had the movement followed the exemplar more closely it might by now have startled itself with its own sparkle, its contrary vision, its range of questionable authority, its self-constructive irreverence and its capacity to approach what is serious and urgent by way of the utterly ridiculous. Just such a kaleidoscope is reflected in this collection of thirty-six tracts from the Didymus compendium. Guaranteed to crack a smile on the face of even the most jaded cynic; this beautifully-crafted book, with never a word in excess or a story simply told is full of multi-layered meanderings brimful of insight, humour and candour. A joy to read
this book will be savoured and revisited, like a favourite view or a good local pub.

John Moat has written the Didymus column in Resurgence for almost thirty years. He is author of some twenty books (novels, short stories, poetry); is co-founder of the Arvon Foundation, the Yarner Trust and TANDEM, a teachers and artists collaboration.

John Moat's book is a masterly blend of warm Irish wit and cool English satire, tapped to perfection in the wordsmithy of a superb poet; Ive been a fan of his for over twenty-five years
Adam Thorpe, author of Between Each Breath