What is THOT J BAP?

The Heart Of This Journey Bears All Patterns:

An Epic Fantasy in Verse

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One afternoon, in an old house in an abandoned village on the outskirts of Perimeter, in the place they call Pacifica, Bramah and the Beggar Boy find fragments of an ancient text in an oak box…

Thus began Bramah and the Beggar Boy, Book One of THOT J BAP. By the end, Bramah, a demigoddess trained as a locksmith, is forced to leave her adopted grandmother and the Beggar Boy they rescued, as well as the magic oak box they found, as she hurtles through a portal to the past on a mission to discover her own origins.

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In Book Two, Bramah’s Quest, her mission continues: she searches not only for her story, but also for her people—helping Seed Savers and resisters battle against the evil Consortium in a world ever more devastated by climate change and global inequality.

If the beating heart of Book One was the parchment-scroll story of the ill-fated Dr. A.E. Anderson and her adopted daughter Abigail, at the centre of Book Two is the love affair between Abigail’s son Raphael and the Warrior General Sherronda who helps wrest victory away from Consortium, at least for a brief while.

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Bramah's Discovery Book 3 of THOT J BAP, coming spring 2026

In Book Three, Bramah’s Discovery, the year is 2110. Bramah’s journey to discover the truth about her origins, and to find out more about her parents, continues. Along the way, this time-travelling locksmith rescues her friend Amahl the Beggar, trapped in the Eternal Game of Climate Chess; eludes an evil drug-lord; encounters two shape-shifting mythical beasts, Fanon and Gavroche; breaks free from captivity in Baghdad; and battles wits with a Paris collective of super naturals. Each challenge forces Bramah to discover truths about her own demi-goddess self and the price of idealism in the face of ecological and economic calamity.

THOT J BAP is:

Epic in that it is long: each book is a poem and there are several books that comprise the series. And epic in that the themes are broad and deep and include the battle between good and evil, and the effects of accelerated climate change and global inequality.

Fantasy in that there is time travel, shape-shifting, magic realism. Many things happen, some good, mostly bad, including five eco-catastrophes and yes, a bio-contagion (pandemic).

Verse in that the story is told through poetic forms often used in the epic: blank verse, cantos, sonnets, madrigals, chants, ballads, spells and codes, as well as the merging of these traditional forms with my signature docu-poetics where the language of reportage and historical texts is mimicked and repurposed for the long poem.