MY NAME IS SWAN
A work in three parts by Jan Noble, bringing together three major narratives into one unified poetic epic.
For the first time, INK & RIBBON PRESS is publishing Jan Noble’s trilogy as a single manuscript. What has lived across film, theatre, radio, and recording now takes definitive shape as a carefully made book — a modern poetic journey moving from river to city to underworld.
My name is Swan
King of effortless rivers
Mercenary of the estuary
Lord of the white feather —
This is my manor.
EDITION DETAILS
TITLE: My Name Is Swan
AUTHOR: Jan Noble
PUBLISHER: Ink & Ribbon Press
ISBN: 979-8-9946216-2-2
PUBLICATION: October 2026
FORMATS: Limited edition paperback and fine art edition
POSITIONING: The first unified print edition of Noble’s trilogy
THE BOOK
ONE BOOK. THREE MOVEMENTS. A SINGLE ARC.
MY NAME IS SWAN, brings together three major narrative poems by Jan Noble — works that have lived across performance, film, theatre, and recording — and presents them together for the first time as a unified poetic work.
Structured as a modern epic in three movements, the collection follows a journey through river, city, and underworld.
MY NAME IS SWAN, a solitary voice drifts downriver through the margins of the city, a wayfaring monologue tracing exile, resilience, and fragile moments of grace. In REYNARD, the medieval trickster fox is reimagined as a hunted migrant moving through modern streets. In BODY 115, inspired by the unidentified victim of the 1987 King’s Cross fire, Noble turns toward the underworld itself in a Dantean descent through loss, memory, and transcendence.
Together these three works form a powerful poetic cycle moving from river journey to hunted myth to subterranean revelation — visionary, theatrical, and deeply human.
NARRATIVE ARC
THE TRILOGY UNFOLDS IN THREE PARTS
Each part is a movement within the book’s larger architecture — river, city, underworld.
PART I
MY NAME IS SWAN
A wayfaring river monologue following a solitary voice through the hidden margins of the city — exile, resilience, and a difficult grace moving toward dawn.
PART II
REYNARD
A modern reworking of the medieval fox legend, recast as a contemporary pursuit through city streets where folklore, migration, and survival collide.
PART III
BODY 115
A Dantean descent inspired by the long-unidentified victim of the King’s Cross fire — an underworld journey through grief, memory, and spiritual reckoning.
FILM & PERFORMANCE
A BOOK WITH A LIFE BEYOND THE PAGE.
These works have already existed across film, radio, theatre, and recording. Ink & Ribbon’s edition gathers that history into a definitive printed artifact.
MY NAME IS SWAN
WINNER
‘Best Narrative’
Los Angeles International Poetry Film Festival (2023)
THEY SAY
‘An unforgettable experience’
John Schaefer, WNYC
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REYNARD
THEY SAY
‘A great reading, a great poem’
Imtiaz Dharker
‘Reynard is magnificent’
Stevie Chick (The Guardian)
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BODY 115
WINNER
‘Best Innovative Play’
London Pub Theatre Awards (2023)
THEY SAY
‘A poetic masterpiece’
★★★★★
(North West End)
‘A triumph in poetic theatre performance’
★★★★
(The Reviews Hub)
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JAN NOBLE 