Rocking Boat Press

Death Resurrection and the Sword

by Brian Moffatt

Priced £9+ Postage and Packaging. £2 UK, £2.50 Europe, £4.50 the rest of the world

What connects Odin and Roy Rogers, the Green man and the Pope, Shakespeare's “The Tempest” and a remote Border tower?

How did Jedburgh come to produce Scotlands finest fighting weapon?

Saddle up for another rampage through British history with Brian Moffatt.

“A cracking presentation on a very unique topic”
Victoria and Albert Musuem

Author

The three sections of this book cover the image of the "Green man" on swords, armour and metalwork, the connections between Francis Stewart, the 5th Earl of Bothwell, and Shakespeare's "The Tempest", and the identification of the weapon known as the "Jeddart staff" or axe.

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The Devil & King James

Events around the Union of the Crowns: 1603

by Brian Moffatt

Published and available direct from Rocking Boat Press Priced £12 + Postage and Packaging. £2 UK, £2.50 Europe, £4.50 the rest of the world

Dangerous History!

Read how the identification of the marriage trunk of Francis Stewart, the 5th Earl of Bothwell, and Margaret Douglas of Branxholme Castle, led to such contraversial discoveries, that the author was wary of publishing at all!

Both ground breaking and revelationary, this book reveals the life, times and associates of Francis Stewart,"The King Devil" who has, until now, been almost entirely written out of history, although he came within an ace of becoming King of both Scotland and England.

This Book reveals why.

An original work of historical research, bristling with plot and counter plot, the story of the years prior to the union of the crowns of Scotland and England, is delivered with a mounting intensity, whose final blow has the impact of a mailed fist, whose repercussions echo about us today...

You simply must read it.

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Soliloquy to the Moon

poems by Kenneth Erik Moffatt.

includes audio cd

with woodcuts and illustrations by the author

Published and available direct from Rocking Boat Press Priced £6.50 + Postage and Packaging. £1 UK, £1.25 Europe, £2 the rest of the world.

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Soliloquy to the Moon’ follows Kens first collection of poems ‘Thought and Memory’.

Ken’s occasional recitals have included Solstice celebrations at Stonehenge, where he was initiated into the Bards of Caer Gawr by the British Order of Druids on Midsummer 2000.

“He has an artists sensitivity to his landscape: its past and present these are outdoor poems, expansive full of rain and light, moorland and hill”

“although inspired by the past, he poet reminds us that wonders abound in everyday life too.” Tom Bryan, The Eildon Tree.

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Thought and Memory

poems by Kenneth Erik Moffatt.

includes audio cd

currently out of print

audio cd
"This is an attractive first collection , illustrated by the author. Moffatt the artist is a Borders goldsmith and sculptor with a strong awareness of local myth and legend. Romans, Vikings, Saxons all leave there mark on his poetry. His finest poems try to capture the past...He has sculpted and forged some good poems here."

Tom Bryan. Review. The Eildon Tree.

K. E. Moffatt. goldsmith and sculptor