Nodes Alan Garner “Island of the Strong Door” / “Jenkin”A poem that Garner tinkered with over a period of decades.NotesEvolution of an Alan Garner poemSynoptic comparison of the four versions of this poem that I'm aware ofSource“Island of the Strong Door” (1979)Scans of original publication in ApertureSourceScreenplay excerpt: Alan Garner’s “To Kill a King” (1980)Full context where the poem appears diegetically in 1980To Kill a KingA television play that aired in 1980 in the anthology series A Leap in the Dark.SourceTo Kill a King — video (1980)SourceTo Kill a King — screenplaySourceBBC inquiry letter to GarnerBonelandA series of increasingly deranged acts of close reading.GeneralBlatherWhat happened to Susan? A potted Gomrath refresherNotesBoneland: Miscellaneous concordancesBlatherBoneland: Garner eats his own taleBlatherBoneland: A reminder that Alan Garner owes you nothingThe Watcher / Palaeolithic sectionsSourceBoneland Watcher SequenceSourceBoneland Watcher sequence, numberedA version of the extract where lines are numbered, for easy reference from the annotation notes.NotesBoneland‘s Watcher Sequence: AnnotationsNotesBoneland: the Watcher’s topographyBlatherBoneland‘s Watcher: a Neanderthal, probablySource“Inner Time” essay by Alan GarnerSource“Flint” essay by Alan GarnerSource“Oral History & Applied Archaeology in East Cheshire” essay by Alan Garner