Category Archives: Recommended reads

The Book of Mélusine of Lusignan:  In History, Legend & Romance  edited by Gareth Knight

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Daniel

Mélusine of Lusignan is no stranger to the Europeans and their interweaving histories and mythologies; indeed her great progeny impacted an area roughly the size of the Roman Empire at its height. It is claimed that her serpentine bloodline produced … Continue reading →

Posted in British Literature, Esoteric, Literature, New books, Recommended reads | Tagged 12th Century, Abbé Vergnaud, Andre Lebey, Arthuriad, Arthurian, Couldrette, curious myths of the middle ages, esoteric, esotericism, Europe, faery, Faery Lore, faery tradition, Fairy Tale, felix mendelssohn, Fish, France, Franz Grillparzer, French History, French Literature, French Mythology, Gareth Knight, Goethe, History, Jean D'Arras, Jerusalem, Kingship, Louis Stouff, Lusignan, Magic, Martin Luther, mediaeval, Medieval History, Melusineof Lusignan, Mendelssohn, Middle Ages, mythology, Occult, R.J. Stewart Books, Ringoltingen, Romans, Royal bloodlines, Royalty, Sabine Baring-Gould, Serpent, Skylight Press, translation, University of Dijon, Walter Skeat, Water Faery, wilhelm meisters | Leave a comment

Conversation with Gareth Knight

Posted on April 21, 2013 by Daniel

Gareth Knight, an author of some forty books on a wide array of subjects following his training in Dion Fortune’s Society of the Inner Light, is now firmly established as one of the world’s foremost authorities on ritual magic, the … Continue reading →

Posted in British History, British Literature, Esoteric, Literature, Recommended reads | Tagged alchemy, Andre Lebey, Anglo Saxon, Arthuriad, Arthurian Traditions, author, Bix Beiderbecke, C.S. Lewis, Caesar, Celtic, Charles Williams, Coleridge, Count Basie, Cretien de Troyes, Daniel Staniforth, Dion Fortune, Druids, esoteric, esotericism, Gareth Knight, Golden Dawn, Hawkwood College, History, Inklings, Interview, J.R.R. Tolkien, jazz, Jelly Roll Morton, Kathleen Raine, Literature, Longmans, Magic, Magical Harmonics, Magick, mediaeval, Medieval, Melusine of Lusignan, music, mystical texts, Occult, Occult bookshops, occultism, Owen Barfield, Oxford Inklings, poetry, practical guide to qabalistic symbolism, qabala, Qabalah, Rebecca Wilby, Romantic Poets, Skylight Press, Society of the Inner Light, Stan Kenton, tarot, Theolonious Monk, vercingetorix, Victorian Poets, Western Mysteries, Western Mystery Tradition, Writer tips | 1 Comment

A Review of Stoning the Devil on The Feminist Wire

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Daniel

The following is a short snippet of Jill Di Donato’s review of Stoning the Devil by Garry Craig Powell, published by The Feminist Wire on April 10, 2013. The full review, entitled Western Novelist Paints a Racy Portrait of Middle Eastern … Continue reading →

Posted in British Literature, Literary Criticism, Literature, Recommended reads, Reviews | Tagged Arab, Arab culture, Beyonce, Book Review, British fiction, British Literature, British Novel, colonial perspective, Experimental novel, feminism, Feminist, fiction, Frank O'Conor Award, Garry Craig Powell, Gulf, Islam, Jill Di Donato, Lena Dunham, middle eastern culture, middle eastern women, middle-east, Muslim, novel, novel in stories, politics, Sex and violence, Short Stories, Stoning the Devil, The Feminist Wire, UAE, United Arab Emirates, Women | Leave a comment

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

The Forgotten Faith: The Witness of the Celtic Saints by Anthony Duncan

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Daniel

It must be said at once that there is no such thing as ‘Celtic Christianity’ as something other than the Christian Faith as it is properly handed down to us. What there is, however, is a Celtic Spirituality which is … Continue reading →

Posted in British History, British Literature, New books, Recommended reads | Tagged Albion, Anglican Church, Anglo Saxon, Anthony Duncan, Arthuriad, Asaph, Augustine, Bishops, British History, Bueno, Cadog, Celtic, Celtic Christianity, Celtic Church, celtic saints, celtic spirituality, Christianity, Church, Columba, David, Early Church, England, English history, Gildas, History, Illtyd, Ireland, Jesus Christ, Kentigern, Mabinogion, Maelrubba, Melangell, Monasteries, Monks, Ninian, Padarn, pagan, Patrick, Paulinus, Religion, Roman Catholic, Sacred places, Saint Augustine, Saints, Samson, Saxon, Scotland, spirituality, Synod, Teilo, Theology, Tysilio, Wales | Leave a comment

Guest Blog by Gordon Strong: James Joyce – Myth as Narrative

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Daniel

…a brave man would invent something that never happened! Joyce In both Ulysses, Portrait of the Artist and the prototype of the latter – Stephen Hero – Joyce is concerned with the presenting of ‘truth’. Not only is … Continue reading →

Posted in British Literature, Essays, Literary Criticism, Literature, Recommended reads | Tagged Aristotle, books., British Literature, British Novel, Charles Tart, Dublin, Dubliners, Edwardian History, experimental literature, F.H. Bradley, fiction, Fred Alan Wolf, Gordon Strong, Greek Drama, Irish history, Irish literature, James Joyce, Literature, Michael Davis, Mikhail Bakhtin, Modernism, Myth, mythology, novel, philosophy, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Richard Kearney, Stephen Hero, T.S. Eliot, Tolkien, Ulysses, Victorian History, Werner Heisenberg | 1 Comment

Magical Images and the Magical Imagination by Gareth Knight

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Daniel

In times past the knowledge and use of magical images was once a closely guarded secret stowed in the minds and vaults of initiates and adepts in the Mystery Schools. But now celebrated esoteric scholar and practitioner, Gareth Knight, offers … Continue reading →

Posted in Esoteric, New books, Recommended reads, Uncategorized | Tagged Astral Plane, Cabbala, Channeling, Channelling, Coleridge, esoteric, Gareth Knight, Imagination, Kabbalah, Magic, meditation, Mysteries, Mystery Schools, Occult, Pathworking, qabala, Skylight Press, Sun Chalice Books, Symbolism, tarot, Trancework, Tree of Life, Visualization, Western Mysteries, Western Mystery Tradition | Leave a comment

Treasures for your Solstice….

Image | Posted on December 22, 2012 by Daniel | Tagged Ancient texts, Anthony Duncan, Arthuriad, Arthurian Legends, British History, British mysteries, Celtic Mythology, Dion Fortune, esoteric, faery, Faery Lore, folklore, Gareth Knight, Golden Dawn, Gordon Strong, Grimoire, inner light, John Matthews, Lodges, Magic, Magical Ceremony, Magical Traditions, mediaeval history, Mike Harris, mystery traditions, mythology, Occult, pagan, Peregrin Wildoak, qabala, Rebecca Wilby, ritual magic, Sacred Earth, Steve Blamires, tarot, W.G. Gray, Wendy Berg, Western Mysteries, Western Mystery Tradition, Wicca | Leave a comment

Category Archives: Recommended reads

The Book of Mélusine of Lusignan:  In History, Legend & Romance  edited by Gareth Knight

Conversation with Gareth Knight

A Review of Stoning the Devil on The Feminist Wire

What Skylight Authors are Reading

Kaleidoscopic Omniscience by Will Alexander

The Forgotten Faith: The Witness of the Celtic Saints by Anthony Duncan

Guest Blog by Gordon Strong: James Joyce – Myth as Narrative

Magical Images and the Magical Imagination by Gareth Knight

Treasures for your Solstice….

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