RSS feed
-
Our main website …
-
Recent Posts
Categories
Independent bookshops
Presses we like
Sites we like
Skylighters
- Alan Richardson
- Basil & Martha King
- Chris Hill
- Daniel Staniforth
- Darryl Sloan
- Dee Sunshine
- Denise Sallee
- Diana Durham
- Elizabeth Guerra
- Gareth Knight
- Garry Craig Powell
- Gordon Strong
- Hugh Fox
- Iain Sinclair
- Janet Farrar
- John Matthews
- Kevan Manwaring
- Kirk Marshall
- Margaret Randall
- Martin Anderson
- Michael Howard
- Mike Harris
- Nick Farrell
- Patrick Harpur
- Peregrin Wildoak
- Pierre Joris
- Richard Froude
- Rikki Ducornet
- Rupert Copping
- Skylight Press
- Steve Blamires
- Wendy Berg
- William G. Gray
Tag Archives: American Poetry
Pierre Joris on Skylight Press
Born in 1946 in Strasbourg, France, raised in Luxembourg, Pierre Joris has moved between the US, Europe & North Africa for 50 years, publishing close to 50 books of poetry & essays, translations & anthologies. In 1992 he returned to … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, Literature, New authors, Poetry
Tagged 20th Century, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Alice Notley, Allen Fisher, American literature, American Poetry, anthologies, Anthology, Arab, Arab Poetry, avant garde, Black Widow Press, Carrie Noland, Charles Bernstein, Charles University, Chax Press, Christine Hume, Clayton Eshleman, Diwan Iffrikya, Ellen Sinopoli, Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company, Essay, experimental literature, Farrar, France, French, Giroux, Habib Tengour, Jean-Pierre Duprey, Jennifer Moxley, Jerome Rothenberg, Joel Chadabe, Luxembourg, Mansur al-Hallaj, Marjorie Perloff, Maurice Blanchot, Mohamed Bennis, New York, Nicole Brossard, Nicole Peyrafitte, Nomadic, Pablo Picasso, Paul Celan, performance, Performance art, performance artist, Peter Cockelbergh, Pierre Joris, poetics, poetry, postmodern, postmodernism, Regina Keil-Sagawe, Rilke, SALT Publishers, Skylight Press, Staruss, State University of New York, SUNY, translation, Tristan Tzara, Xavier Chabot
Leave a comment
Will Alexander nominated Poet Laureate of Los Angeles
Our congratulations to Will Alexander, who has been nominated ‘Poet Laureate’ of Los Angeles. Learn more about Will here: See the amazing poet read here: Skylight Press has proudly published two of Will’s books, Diary As Sin (Novel) and Kaleidoscopic … Continue reading
A Few Recent Reviews of Skylight Books
Kaleidoscopic Omniscience by Will Alexander “Vermillion shades of astral haunts abound as Alexander takes his readers through a psychedelic romp that leaves the consciousness reeling. There’s nothing usual about Alexander’s visionary take on history: the contemporary, the ancient, and the … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, British History, British Literature, Esoteric, Literary Criticism, Literature, Recommended reads, Reviews
Tagged Alan Richardson, Alexander, American Poetry, Anthony Duncan, avant garde, Book Reviews, British fiction, British Literature, British poetry, Charles Olson, Christ, christian, Daniel Staniforth, David Caddy, Dion Fortune, dr john dee, esoteric, experimental fiction, fiction, Gareth Knight, Garry Craig Powell, Hamlet, HTML GIant, iain sinclair, John Dee, Lipstick & Politics, Literature, Magic of the Ordinary, Michael S. Judge, novel, Occult, Patrick James Dunagan, Paula Mendoza, Peregrin Wildoak, Persian Gulf, Plutarch, poetry, qabala, Reviews, Robert Duncan, Shakespeare, Sting, Surrealism, Tears in the Fence, UAE, Will Alexander, William Blake, World War One
Leave a comment
Smatterings & Offerings
We are always interested in what our authors are doing, whether with Skylight or with other great presses. Here is a smattering of recent new release offerings from various places… IAIN SINCLAIR: Ghost Milk: Recent Adventures Among the Future Ruins … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, Australian Literature, British History, British Literature, Esoteric, Essays, Literature, New books, Recommended reads
Tagged Alan Richardson, American Poetry, Asia, British History, British Literature, Celtic, Dioscuri Press, Ebury Digital, esoteric, Essay Press, Essays, Faber & Faber, fiction, Golden Dawn, Gordon Strong, History, iain sinclair, John Matthews, Kerubim Press, Literature, London, Magic, Margaret Randall, Martin Anderson, Megalithica Books, megaliths, Mutus Liber Books, mythology, Nick Farrell, novel, Occult, Olympics, Peregrin Wildoak, poetry, Post-colonial, Rhizome, Shamanism, Shearsman Books, tarot, Western Mystery Tradition, Will Alexander, Wings Press
Leave a comment
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 American Literature, Literature, New authors, Poetry
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
Leave a comment
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 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
Through the Skylight 