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Monthly Archives: April 2012
How Much is My Strad Worth?
Back in the days when I worked in a luthier’s shop selling and restoring violin family instruments there was an oft occurrence. About once or twice a week someone would come into the shop positively beaming and bearing and old … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Music, Recommended reads, Uncategorized
Tagged Amati, antonio Stradivari, cello, Cremona, cremonese violin, Giegenmacher, Guarneri, Guarneri del Gesu, instruments, italian violin, jacqueline du pre, luthery, luthier, Mantua, Mittenwald, Mstislav Rostropovic, music, Nicolo Amati, Strad, Stradivarius, stradivarius violin, stringed instruments, strings, Venice, violin, violin case, violin family instruments, violin maker, Yo Yo Ma
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The Cult of Seizure by Rikki Ducornet
The lunatic algebra of Love. The frenzied orbits of Mood. The malarial temperatures of Wound. Symbols of the Cult of Seizure: This flesh, this amulet incised. This hot spoor of predators. This zodiac savaged in the sky. Anyone who has … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, Literature, New authors, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads
Tagged Absurdism, alchemy, American fiction, American novel, Andre Breton, Angela Carter, archetypal world, Art, Artaud, avant garde, Avant garde literature, Bestiary, de sade, deep zoo, dream logic, Dreams, Erzsebet Bathory, experimental fiction, fiction, Gaston Bachelard, Gertrude Stein, gnosticism, Helene Cixous, Italo Calvino, Jeanette Winterson, Jorge Luis Borges, Language poetry, Lautreamont, Lewis Carroll, Literature, Magic, Magic Realism, novel, Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda, poetry, Rikki Ducornet, silling, small press, Surrealism, Sylvia Plath, symbolism. Porcupine's Quill, The Cult of Seizure, The Fan Maker's Inquisition, The Fountains of Neptune, William Blake, Wordsworth, writing, Zotl
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Interview with Dee Sunshine
“I think you are right to call it a demon. It is very similar to being possessed by a malevolent entity. When I was younger I was consumed by my desire to be a writer and artist, and, I have … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, New authors, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads
Tagged Abstract Expressionism, art website, artwork, author interview, avant garde, British Literature, British poetry, Dee Sunshine, drowning man, Experimental Art, experimental literature, Literature, poetry, Scottish art, Scottish Literature, Scottish poetry, spiritual awakening, spiritualism, Surrealism, Visions of the Drowning Man, writing
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Review of “By Names and Images” by Gareth Knight
The following review, entitled Bringing the Golden Dawn to Life, was plucked (with permission) from Gareth Knight’s blog (written on April 9, 2012): Bringing the Golden Dawn to life! Our perceptions of the Golden Dawn system have come a long … Continue reading
Posted in Esoteric, New authors, New books, Reviews
Tagged Book Review, Chic and Tabatha Cicero, esoteric, Gareth Knight, Golden Dawn, hermetic order of the golden dawn, hermeticism, Israel Regardie, Magic, Magic of the Ordinary, Nick Farrell, Occult, Peregrin Wildoak, Spiritual, Wester Mysteries, Western Mystery Tradition
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The Signatory by Kirk Marshall
“There are few more transfixing vistas than being entitled to a vision of a glassy, membrane-clustered city of racing, pivotal electricity trembling in a white glister of night – a voyage of candles blurring the boundary between occupation and a … Continue reading
Posted in Australian Literature, Literature, New authors, New books, Recommended reads
Tagged Australian Fiction, Australian literature, brisbane queensland, césar aira, contemporary fiction, dada, experimental fiction, experimental literature, fiction, Kirk Marshall, Language poetry, Literature, Melbourne, Nonsense literature, novel, Oulipo, Red Leaves Journal, short story competition, small press, Surrealism, travel, wordsmith, writing
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The RUINS poemscape video featuring poetry by Margaret Randall
Last year Skylight Press was privileged to publish a collection of poetry by the esteemed poet, Margaret Randall, called Something’s Wrong with the Cornfields. Soon after, another poetry collection was published by University of New Mexico Press for their … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, Literature, Poetry
Tagged Alchymical Muse, ambient, American History, American literature, American Poetry, Architecture, Audio-visual, books., classical music, Daniel Staniforth, Film, Literature, Luna Trick, Margaret Randall, New Mexico, Orchestral, poemscape, poetry, Pueblo, Rebecca Wilby, Rebsie Fairholm, Ruins, Soundtrack, Spoken language, video
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Kirk Marshall on Skylight Press
“The lustre of morning has intruded again, & the skies are abundant with hoop snakes wrought from gold. A glamorous and celestial sunshine, teeming with a lemniscate of light, bearing the fingerprint of creation like a watermark within a piece … Continue reading
Posted in Australian Literature, Literature, New authors, New books, Recommended reads
Tagged Australian Fiction, Australian literature, brisbane queensland, contemporary fiction, dada, experimental fiction, experimental literature, fiction, Kirk Marshall, Language poetry, Literature, Melbourne, Nonsense literature, novel, Oulipo, Red Leaves Journal, short story competition, small press, Surrealism, wordsmith, writing
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Through the Skylight 