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Tag Archives: Literature
Conversation with Alan Richardson
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
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The Groundlings of Divine Will by Daniel Staniforth
“We are the collective pronoun not to be named; the sacred amalgam, the response harbingers around the fringes of refinery. We are informers and fetishists, sycophants and revolutionaries, the pliant in the trenches of experience, the silent mummers in supplication … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Literature, New books, Poetry
Tagged alchemy, Ancient Britain, Ben Johnson, British Literature, British poetry, Cathars, Catholicism, Christianity, Christopher Marlowe, Church, Church history, conspiracy, Daniel Staniforth, Drama, Elizabethan History, Emmanuel Swedenborg, English history, English literature, English poetry, esotericism, Globe, Gordiano Bruno, Gospels, Heresy, History, Holinshed, John Dee, Literary Criticism, Literature, Magic, Masons, Montaigne, Mystery Schools, Occult, Orthodoxy, Plays, Playwrights, poetry, postmodern, Religion, ritual, Rosicrucians, Seneca, Shakespeare, Shakespearean Criticism, Swan, Templars, theatre, Theology, Tudor History, Walter Raleigh, Western Mysteries, William Shakespeare, Witchcraft
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One-day Conference on the Life and Work of DION FORTUNE – Saturday, 30 March 2013
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
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Joseph Noble on Skylight Press
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 New authors, Literature, Poetry, American Literature
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
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Kaleidoscopic Omniscience by Will Alexander
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 poetry, Literature, American Poetry, Will Alexander, Surrealism, avant garde, Andre Breton, Diary as Sin, Los Angeles, Cosmology, Language poetry, Rimbaud, writing, Octavio Paz, Symbolism, Experimental poetry, Channelling, Contemporary Poetry, Surreal Poetry, Avant Garde Poetry, Brian Lucas, Aime Cesaire, Philip Lamantia, Bob Kaufman, Antonin Artaud, Asia, Haiti, Enver Hxha, Eliot Weinburger, Albania, Tibet, Dictatorship, Jonathan Skinner, Mark Scroggins, Dylan Thomas, Kaleidoscopic Omniscience, Symbolist poetry, enver hoxha, contemporary american poetry
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Guest Blog by Gordon Strong: James Joyce – Myth as Narrative
…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
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The Secret Tradition in Arthurian Legend by Gareth Knight
The Secret Tradition in Arthurian Legend is the first of two important Gareth Knight reissues to come out this month, to be shortly followed by Magical Images and the Magical Imagination. On the one hand it is a remarkable study … Continue reading
Posted in New books, Recommended reads, Literature, Literary Criticism, Esoteric, British Literature
Tagged Gareth Knight, esoteric, Western Mystery Tradition, Wendy Berg, holy grail, King Arthur, Magic, British Literature, Literature, mythology, British mysteries, France, Dion Fortune, archetype, Western Mysteries, Arthurian Tradition, Celtic Mythology, Arthurian Legends, Merlin, Brythonic Literature, chrétien de troyes, mediaeval, England, Arthuriad, Symbolism, Faery Realms, Breton, Medieval History, Ancient texts, Mallory, Medieval French History, Atlantis, Lemuria, Morte D'Arthur, Thomas Mallory, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Robert de Boron, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parsifal, Tristan and Isolde, Ancient Britain, Middle Ages, Secret Tradition, Greek Mythology, Literary analysis, atlantis and lemuria, french manuscripts, literary scholar
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