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Conversation with Alan Richardson

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Daniel

As my conversation with Gareth Knight was so well received last month I decided to try and have a similar confab with his friend and somewhat younger colleague, Alan Richardson. Alan has written extensively on Paganism, Celtic and Faery lore, … Continue reading →

Posted in British Literature, Esoteric, Literature, Reviews | Tagged Alan Richardson, Aleister Crowley, Arthurian Traditions, British Fiction. Literature, Celtic, Charles Seymour, Christine Hartley, D.H. Lawrence, Dion Fortune, esoteric, esotericism, faery, fiction, Gareth Knight, great war, Literature, Magic, Magician, Magick, megaliths, mythology, Newcastle United, novel, Occult, Paganism, qabala, Skylight Press, Sting, Templars, Western Mysteries, Western Mystery Tradition, William G. Gray, Wiltshire, WW1 | 7 Comments

Nick Farrell on Skylight Press

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Daniel

Nick Farrell is an esoteric author and journalist who has dedicated his life to the Western Mystery Tradition. Joining the Builders of the Adytum in New Zealand at age 17, he started to read everything he could find on the Golden … Continue reading →

Posted in New books, New authors, Australian Literature, Esoteric, British Literature | Tagged Skylight Press, esoteric, Western Mystery Tradition, novel, fiction, tarot, Magic, Pendragon, Occult, mysticism, Dion Fortune, Shamanism, Western Mysteries, Golden Dawn, hermetic order of the golden dawn, Peregrin Wildoak, Nick Farrell, Israel Regardie, Druids, Magick, esotericism, occultism, Journalism, Great Britain, Servants of the Light, Eqyptology, New Zealand, Whare Ra, Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, David Goddard, Pharos, Chic Cicero, Tabatha Cicero, Talismans, Esoteric Order of the Golden Dawn, Paganism, Colin Robertson, Druidic order, Lupa, Rome, Aurora Aurea, William Wynn Wescott, Samuel Mathers, Pat Zalewski, HorusHathor, Journalist | Leave a comment

‘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

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

One-day Conference on the Life and Work of DION FORTUNE – Saturday, 30 March 2013

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Daniel

Come and see Skylight Authors Wendy Berg and Mike Harris, along with other wonderful authors, speak at the Dion Fortune conference. Also, Skylight Press will have a table at the back – so bring some spending money for books. Here … Continue reading →

Posted in British History, British Literature, Esoteric, Events, Events | Tagged Alpha et Omega, Aquarian Age, Atlantis, Cabala, Clun Memorial Hall, Cosmic Doctrine, David Benton, Demon Lover, Dion Fortune, esoteric, fiction, Fraternity of Inner Light, Geraldine Beskin, Glastonbury, Goat-foot God, Goddess, Golden Dawn, hermeticism, Literature, Magic, Moon Magic, Mystical Qabala, Novels, Occult, occultism, Pagan Federation, Psychic Self-Defence, Psychology, qabala, Qabalah, Sea Priestess, Servants of the Light, Shropshire, Skylight Press, Stella Matutina, tarot, Theosophy, Tim Entwistle, Violet Firth, Wales, Wendy Berg, Western Mysteries, Western Mystery Tradition, Winged Bull | 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

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

Paint Your Teeth – Event with Kirk Marshall

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Daniel

Kirk Marshall will be delivering a (suggestibly bilingual) “spoken-word” performance at Paint Your Teeth vol. #18 in Tokyo, on December the 8th — a live Japanese event celebrating experimental literature, music and dance — on behalf of “Red Leaves / 紅葉” … Continue reading →

Posted in Australian Literature, Literature | Tagged arts, Australian literature, Barom One, entertainment, experimental literature, fiction, hibino, Hiroyuki Hibino, Japan, Japanese event, Kirk Marshall, Literary event, Literary Journal, music, novel, Paint Your Teeth, red leaves, Red Leaves Journal, Satsujin pet sounds, spoken word performance, Takahashi Hideki, Team Donut Lolita, Tokyo, Tokyo Marry Band, video | Leave a comment

Song of the Sea God by Chris Hill

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Daniel

“…Like we’d never shared in the sea’s flotsam and jetsam; the dead whales, a leather backed turtle once, big as a coffee table. The dead bodies even, now and then, stranded in sleep with water trickling lazily from silent terracotta … Continue reading →

Posted in British Literature, Literature, New authors, New books, Recommended reads | Tagged Allegory, Ballard, British fiction, British Literature, British Novel, Chris Hill, Chris Moore, Daily Telegraphy, English literature, English novel, experimental fiction, fiction, God figure, History, humour, Imagination, Islands, John Fowles, Literature, Lord of the Flies, Metaphor, Michael Moorcock, mythology, novel, Religion, Religious allegory, Sea God, Sea Narrative, Seaside, Surrealism, Symbolism. Jesus Christ, Walney Island, William Golding, Yeovil Prize | 3 Comments

Chris Hill on Skylight Press

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Daniel

Chris Hill, an exciting new British fiction writer, grew up on Walney Island just off the coast of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, at the northern tip of Morecambe Bay. This “bladder-wracked” Island, the largest of the Furness Island group, forms the backdrop … Continue reading →

Posted in British Literature, Literature, New authors, New books, Recommended reads | Tagged author, book, Bridport Prize, British fiction, British Literature, British Novel, contemporary fiction, Crime, crime correspondent, Daily Telegraph, English fiction, English literature, English novel, experimental fiction, fiction, fred and rose west, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, Journalism, Kate Atkinson, Literature, literature festival, morecambe bay, Newspaper, novel, novel prize, Short Stories, Song of the Sea God, Walney Island, writing, Yeovil Prize | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: fiction

Conversation with Alan Richardson

Nick Farrell on Skylight Press

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

A Review of Stoning the Devil on The Feminist Wire

One-day Conference on the Life and Work of DION FORTUNE – Saturday, 30 March 2013

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

Skylight Fiction for the Holidaze?

Paint Your Teeth – Event with Kirk Marshall

Song of the Sea God by Chris Hill

Chris Hill on Skylight Press

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