Category Archives: American Literature

‘Jesus Christ, that’s a lot of Novels!’ – A Cross-section of Blasphemetic Fiction

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Daniel

The fictions of Jesus the Christ have become many in number, multiplying like the loaves and the fishes at Bethsaida. In that they were pseudepigraphical accounts and written up two to three centuries after the events depicted, the gospels could … Continue reading →

Posted in American Literature, British History, British Literature, Esoteric, Essays, Literary Criticism, Literature, Reviews | Tagged A.J. Langguth, Albert Schweitzer, American fiction, Angela Hunt, Anita Mason, Anthony Burgess, Apocrypha, Astral Plane, Ben Hur, Benito Perez Galdos, Bible, bishop irenaeus, Bishop Ireneus, Blasphemy, British fiction, Bruno Bauer, Buddhism, Channeling, Chris Hill, Chris Moore, Christendom, Christianity, Coptic, coptic gospels, Cyberpunk, D.H. Lawrence, Dan Brown, David Strauss, Dead Sea Scrolls, Decetisicm, Early Church, Ebionite, Elaine Pagels, Eqyptology, Ernest Renan, esoteric, feminism, fiction, Frank Yerby, Friedrich Ghillany, Gabriel Meyer, George Moore, Gerd Theissen, Gerhart Hauptmann, gnostic gospel of thomas, gnosticism, Gore Vidal, Gospel of Thomas, Gospels, Grail, Hagiography, Hebrew, Heresy, Historical Jesus, History, Holy Blood, Hugh Schonfield, infancy gospels, Isis, issus, James Carse, James Morrow, Jeremy Robinson, Jesus Christ, Jim Crace, John, Jose Saramago, Judaism, Karl Barth, Last Temptation of Christ, Lew Wallace, Life of Brian, Liz Green, Luke, Magic, Magick, Marcionism, Mark, Marrianne Fredriksson, Martin Scorsese, Mary Magdalene, Master Jesus, Matthew, Messiah, Michael Baigent, Michael Moorcock, Michele Roberts, Mikhail Bulgakov, Monty Python, Morton Smith, mysticism, mythology, Nag Hammadi, Nazarene, Nikos Katantzakis, Nino Ricci, Norman Mailer, Nostradamus, Novels, Occult, Orthodox, pagan, Par Lagerkvist, Passion Plays, Paul Park, Religion, Richard Muller, Robert Graves, Roman History, Saints, Saviour, Shasaku Endo, Sholem Asch, Simon Magus, Skylight Press, Taylor Caldwell, Testament, Theodore Sturgeon, Theodore Ziolwolski, Theology, Theosophy, Time Travel, Western Mystery Tradition, Wilton Barnhardt, Yeshua, Zoroastrianism | 3 Comments

What Skylight Authors are Reading

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Daniel

It’s always fascinating to see what writers read, where they find sustenance and inspiration for their own work. A few Skylight authors have graciously agreed to let us in on what they are currently reading, whether for guilty pleasure or … Continue reading →

Posted in American Literature, Australian Literature, British History, British Literature, Esoteric, Literary Criticism, Literature, Recommended reads | Tagged 13th Century, Alan Richardson, Aldous Huxley, Alex Owen, Allen Mandelbaum, Andre Lebey, Andrew Joron, Andrew Loog Oldham, Anna Lanyon, Antonio Tabucchi, Antony Beevor, Apollinaire, Arthuriad, Arthurian Legends, Aztec, Bachelard, Barbara Pym, Bin Ramke, Bolano, Bombay, books., Borges, Brian Lucas, British Literature, Celtic, Celtic Myth, Cesar Vallejo, China Mieville, Chris Daniels, Chris Hill, Christopher Middleton, Ciaran Carson, Clark Coolidge, conquest of gaul, Creole, Daniel Staniforth, Dante, David Mitchell, Dean Radin, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Dion Fortune, Divine Comedy, Druids, Elaine Pagels, Eleni Stecopoulous, Elizabeth Robinson, Emily Toder, faery, Faery Lore, feminism, French, G. M. Fraser, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Galahad, Gareth Knight, Garry Craig Powell, Gaul, Gawain, George Devine, Gettysburg, Giuseppe di Lampedusa, Gordon Strong, Grail Hallows, Greek Mythology, H.L. Mencken, Hindu, holy grail, Hugh Fox, imminent publication, Indonesia, irish, Jack Collom, Jack Schaeffer, Jeet Thayil, John Matthews, John Sakkis, John Woodhouse, Joseph Noble, julius caesar, Julius Ceasar, Karen Ralls, Kathleen Raine, Kirk Marshall, Laird Hunt, Latin America, Leonora Carrington, Lissa Wolsak, Literature, Longinus, Lucretius, Margaret Randall, Maya, Mayan History, mediaeval, Medieval, Melusine, Mexico, Michael Crichton, Michael D. Coe, Michael Flatt, Michael Ladeen, Michael Palma, Modernism, Moon Magic, Murakami, Murilo Mendez, music, Nicholas Kilmer, Nicholas Rawson, Noah Eli Gordon, Normandi Ellis, Occult, Oscar Lewis, Pablo Neruda, Perceval, Peter Akroyd, Portugal, Pre-Reconstruction, R.J. Stewart, R.S. Loomis, Rebecca Seiferle, Rebecca Wilby, Richard Froude, Ricoeur, Rikki Ducornet, rite of pan, Robert Kloss, Roberto Calasso, Roman, Romance, Rupert Copping, Rushdie, Sam Thompson, Samuel Beckett, Sea Priestess, Seth Landman, Skylight Press, Sonali Deraniyagala, Spanish, SpringGun Press, Steven Johnson, T.A. Jenkins, Taiye Selasi, Templars, Tennyson, Terence McKenna, Thailand, vercingetorix, Victorian, W.A. Nitze, Welsh, William Blake, William Carlos Williams, William Pitt Root, Wings Press, World War Two | Leave a comment

Antiphonal Airs by Joseph Noble

Posted on March 16, 2013 by Daniel

sound remembered beneath the sound board within the fingers recognizable and strange at the rim of summoning and leaving Antiphonal Airs is a mixilating series of poems from poet-musician Joseph Noble. Some are improvisational riffs on specific composers, their lives … Continue reading →

Posted in American Literature, Literature, New authors, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads | Tagged poetry, Literature, American literature, American Poetry, avant garde, music, classical, classical music, jazz, early music, composers, Experimental poetry, Joseph Noble, Experimental Music, Andrew Joron, Cloud Shepherd, San Francisco Poetry, Bay Area Poetry, Baroque, David Meltzer, Polyphony, Monody, Seconda Practica, Italian Composers, Italian Baroque, Sonnet, Riddle, Orpheus and Eurydice, Hazrat Inayat Khan, Edgar Varese, John Adams, Ornette Coleman, Theolonius Monk, Haydn, Elizabeth Robinson, Lyrical Poetry, Songs | Leave a comment

Joseph Noble on Skylight Press

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Daniel

The Bay Area has always been a hot-bed for experimental poetry, from the Beats and the famous Six Gallery reading to Ferlinghetti’s City Lights enclave to the San Francisco Renaissance that yielded such poetic powers as Rexroth, Duncan, Spicer and … Continue reading →

Posted in American Literature, Literature, New authors, Poetry | Tagged ambient, American literature, American Poetry, Andrew Joron, avant garde, Bay Area, Bay Area Poetry Scene, books., Brian Lucas, City Lights Bookstore, classical music, Cloud Shepherd, Drone, Experimental Music, Experimental poetry, jack Spicer, Joseph Noble, Kenneth Rexroth, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Laynie Brown, Literature, music, poetry, Robert Duncan, Robin Blaser, San Francisco, San Francisco Renaissance, Spoken Word, US Poetry, Will Alexander | Leave a comment

Kaleidoscopic Omniscience by Will Alexander

Posted on February 17, 2013 by Daniel

In the contemporary American poetry scene Will Alexander stands alone as a unique voice, regularly penning what fellow poet Brian Lucas recently described to me as “oracular, vatic, cosmically penetrating poetry.” Perhaps the most obvious categorisation is to place him … Continue reading →

Posted in American Literature, Literature, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads | Tagged Aime Cesaire, Albania, American Poetry, Andre Breton, Antonin Artaud, Asia, avant garde, Avant Garde Poetry, Bob Kaufman, Brian Lucas, Channelling, contemporary american poetry, Contemporary Poetry, Cosmology, Diary as Sin, Dictatorship, Dylan Thomas, Eliot Weinburger, enver hoxha, Enver Hxha, Experimental poetry, Haiti, Jonathan Skinner, Kaleidoscopic Omniscience, Language poetry, Literature, Los Angeles, Mark Scroggins, Octavio Paz, Philip Lamantia, poetry, Rimbaud, Surreal Poetry, Surrealism, Symbolism, Symbolist poetry, Tibet, Will Alexander, writing | Leave a comment

In Defence of Poesy: A Skylight Selection

Image | Posted on December 10, 2012 by Daniel | Tagged America Poetry, Art, Bard tradition, Basil King, Breton, Breton lais, British poetry, Celtic Poetry, Daniel Staniforth, Dee Sunshine, Ella Young, English poetry, environmentalism, esoteric, Experimental poetry, Gareth Knight, Hybrid poetry, iain sinclair, Irish poetry, literary, Literature, Margaret Randall, Martin Anderson, mediaeval, poetry, Prose poems, Richard Froude, Rikki Ducornet, Scottish poetry, Skylight Press, Surrealism, Symbolism | Leave a comment

Skylight Fiction for the Holidaze?

Image | Posted on December 6, 2012 by Daniel | Tagged Alan Richardson, Allegory, American fiction, Anthony Duncan, Australian Fiction, British fiction, Chris Hill, Christmas Presents, Daniel Staniforth, Esoteric Fiction, experimental fiction, Experimental novel, fiction, Gareth Knight, Garry Craig Powell, Hugh Fox, iain sinclair, Kirk Marshall, Labyrinthine, literary fiction, Literature, Magic Realism, Margaret Lumley Brown, Martin Anderson, Metafiction, novel, postmodern, postmodernism, Rebecca Wilby, satire, Skylight Press, Surrealism, Will Alexander | Leave a comment

Guest Blog by Gordon Strong: British involvement in the American Civil War

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Daniel

Many, including a great proportion of Americans, are ignorant of the motives behind the Civil War. The extent of British involvement in the conflict is also generally unknown. Received opinion assigns the emancipation of the slaves as a reason for … Continue reading →

Posted in American Literature, British Literature, Essays | Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American History, American South, British History, Civil War, Civil War History, Confederacy, English history, Gordon Strong, History, Lancashire, Lancashire Cotton Mills, Lincoln Memorial, Liverpool Ship yards, London, politics, Slavery, Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Union Army, US History, Virginia | Leave a comment

Basil’s Arc: The Paintings and Poetics of Basil King (September 22, 2012)

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Daniel

Posted in American Literature, British Literature, Literature, Poetry | Tagged Abstract Expressionism, Alchymical Muse, American literature, American Poetry, Basil King, beat generation, Beat poetry., Black Mountain College, British Literature, British poetry, documentary, Film, Literature, Martha King, Maya Deren Theater, New York, Nicole Peyrafitte, Pierre Joris, Skylight Press | Leave a comment

Review of Richard Froude’s The Passenger

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Daniel

Here are some quotes from a very thoughtful review of Richard Froude’s The Passenger by Jade Lascelles, taken from Bombay Gin 34. 2. For more information on this literary journal and how to acquire it – visit here. “The reader is … Continue reading →

Posted in American Literature, British Literature, Essays, Recommended reads, Reviews | Tagged Bombay Gin, Book Review, British Literature, Hybrid poetry, Liteature, Naropa University, poetry, Prose, Richard Froude, The Passenger | Leave a comment

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