Voices and claims across fiction, poetry and essays — reading journey
Identifying who speaks is a practical reading skill when a catalogue moves between imagined worlds and direct arguments.
Spoiler-light introduction. This complements the source books and does not reproduce their text.
Eranianism and The Word of Era are fictional religious lore used to explore villains and oppressive civilizations. Their harsh views are not Paul Haedo’s personal beliefs.
The Word of Era
A religious text from the imagined Eranian civilizations of Haedo’s fiction. Tales of rival gods, conflict, hope, and collective empowerment develop the beliefs and traditions of this fictional world.
Plan your readingMoments Are Butterflies: A Poetry Collection
A collection of 25 poems moving across different subjects and forms, including rhyme and free verse. Moments Are Butterflies offers a varied route through Paul Haedo’s poetry, with pieces on love, solitude, fear, joy, and the fleeting moments of life.
Plan your readingA Dalliance Across Thought
A collection of essays and longer pieces on philosophy, government, self-help, and human development. Bringing together work from different stages of his thinking, Haedo also acknowledges that some earlier views no longer reflect his position.
Plan your readingQuestions for your reading
- What kind of speaker or argument does the form lead you to expect before you begin reading?
- How would you describe a difficult claim accurately without turning it into an unsupported statement about the author’s present beliefs?