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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Sacred Earth Walks with Rebsie
There is no doubt that Skylight Press has a deep interest in ‘Sacred Earth’ mysteries, as evidenced by Alan Richardson’s geo-psychic novel On Winsley Hill, Margaret Randall’s array of sacred Landscapes in Something’s Wrong with the Cornfields, Hugh Fox’s internal … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Esoteric, Essays, Literature, Recommended reads
Tagged Alan Richardson, Albion, Ancient History, Britain, British History, Celts, Cheltenham, Cheltonia, Cotswolds, England, English history, esoteric, Folksongs, Gloucestershire, iain sinclair, Landscape, Malverns, mythology, Nature, Psyche Folk, Psychogeography, Rebecca Wilby, Rebsie Fairholm, Romans, Sacred Earth, Sacred Geography, Saxons, Somerset, Southwest England, Sulis Manouevre
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Iain Sinclair on Skylight Press
Iain Sinclair describes himself as a “British writer, documentarist, film maker, poet, flâneur, metropolitan prophet and urban shaman, keeper of lost cultures and futurologist.” He was born in Cardiff in 1943 but has lived much of his life in Hackney, … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Esoteric, Literary Criticism, Literature, New authors, Poetry
Tagged 1960s, 1970s, Alan Moore, Albion Village Press, Angela Carter, anthologies, Architecture, Arthur Machen, avant garde, BBC, Bookdealers, British Avant Garde, British Literature, British mysteries, British poetry, Cardif, Chaos magic, Charles Baudelaire, Conductors of Chaos, Dining on Stones, documentary, Downriver, Earth Mysteries, Edge of Orison, esoteric, Euclidian, filmmaker, Flaneur, Geography, gnosticism, Gothic, Guy Debord, Hackney, Hawksmoor, History, iain sinclair, J.G. Ballard, Landor's Tower, Lettrists, Ley Lines, Lights out for the Territory, London, London Film School, London Orbital, London Psychogeographical Association, Louis Aragon, Lud Heat, Margaret Thatcher, Michael Moorcock, nomad, Occult, Peter Akroyd, Psychogeography, River Thames, Robert Graves, Shamanism, Sigil magic, Situationists, Suicide Bridge, Surrealism, The Workshop for Non-Linear Architecture, Thomas De Quincey, Underground, Walking tours, Walter Benjamin, white chappell, WIll Self, William Blake
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Faery Loves & Faery Lais: A Collection of Breton Lais as told by Gareth Knight
“The Breton lai is a relatively short narrative poem, usually accompanied by music, that appeared in France some time about the middle of the 12th century, spread by travelling musicians and story tellers called ‘jongleurs.’ What we find important about … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Esoteric, Literature, Music, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads
Tagged Arthurian legend, breton lai, Breton lais, Brittany, Celtic, Celtic revival, Celtic twilight, chrétien de troyes, Cornwall, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Ella Young, English history, esoteric, faery, Faery Lore, fairytale, Fantasy, Fiona Macleod, Folktale, French History, Gareth Knight, George Russell, Henry II, Ireland, jongleurs, Laurence Harf-Lancner, Literature, Marie de France, mediaeval history, mediaeval literature medieval literature, Middle French, Myth, mythology, Pierre Gallais, R.J. Stewart, short narrative poem, W.B. Yeats, Wales, Wendy Berg
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