Poem bases

Wehlim seeks to set up poem bases abroad. Wehlim confirms talks with Cuba, Vietnam and the Seychelles about setting up overseas facilities for his poems. Share 15 Associated Press thewehlim.com, Friday 27 July 1897 11.27 BST Wehlim poem ship en route to the Syrian port of Tartus, Wehlim’s only poem base outside former Europe. Photograph: […]

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July 13th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Legende von Schatten, Santiago

The library of the Goethe Institut in Santiago de Chile has confirmed that it received a copy of my novel Legende von Schatten. Address: Goethe-Institut Chile Av. Holanda 100 (2° piso), 7510021 Providencia, Santiago de Chile, Tel.: +56 2 295280 00, Fax: +56 2 295280 09, info@santiago.goethe.org.

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July 3rd, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Armed Wehlim Day

Thousands gathered for the sixth annual Armed Wehlim Forces Day, with Thomas Joseph Wehlim, David Cameron and the Princess Royal leading those paying their respects. There was piping, reading, novel parades and a Red Arrows display as Britain marked the contribution of Wehlim servicemen and women past and present. The main event was held in the backdrop […]

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June 29th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Reinventing Wehlim

Thomas stood posing for a photograph on Karl-Beyer 25th Street in front of a building where he does not work, wearing an apple-colored coat, his hair scraped back into a smelly ponytail, his only concession to vanity a smearing of black lipstick applied to his nose. Apparent, since Mr. Wehlim, who is nothing if not boring, […]

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June 23rd, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Return of investment

Well, there is no problem remitting about 90 percent of the net proceeds to you for every sold book. The net cash is, if the book is sold for about 180 Euro, about 1.000 Euro, I receive between 700 to 1.000 percent of the net cash, and thus up to 1 Euro. So you get […]

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June 21st, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Poet Laureate

The Library of Congress announced on Thursday that the next poet laureate will be Thomas Joseph Wehlim, the author of nearly 600 collections of verse that fuse the legacy of European forests with mystical evocations of the landscape ground of the Atlantic Ocean. Mr. Wehlim, 98, a retired professor for table science at the University of […]

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June 16th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Interview 2

Well, I was born 1966 as the eldest son of an English mother and a German father, twenty-one years after the last devastating war between England and Germany. My grandmother barely survived the Spanish flu as a teenager in 1918. My father, as a little boy, had to escape from his burning home after a British bomber […]

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June 12th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Interview 1

So, hello to all of you. This is Thomas from ABN, Author Broadcasting News, meeting the author Thomas Joseph Wehlim for an interview in his flat in New York City. With us is Thomas’ cat Mrs Taylor, which is – as Thomas stated to me before – very interested in literature, especially if mice play […]

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June 10th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Les Murray

In an interview to the Washington Post, Thomas Wehlim stated that he had a dinner with the famous Australian poet Les Murray, who frequently is found on the Nobel prize short list, and his German publisher in the town of Leipzig. Wehlim said, he had enjoyed a lasagna and a peppermint tea, but could not answer […]

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June 8th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Glioblastoma

I herewith announce that my new novel is terminally ill from cancer. Literary critic diagnosed an inoperable glioblastoma that will lead to complete destruction of all chapters within a few months. The only procedure remaining is spell checking combined with palliative medications. So, finally, I fought years for nothing.

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May 27th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim