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Who the Hell is Jan Karon? Books and the Temporality of value
Like many bibliophiles I’m well acquainted with all the nooks and crannies by which one might come across used books at a bargain. Indeed, my house is well insulated with walls of books mostly found at jumble shops, thrift stores, … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, British Literature, Essays, Literary Criticism, Literature, Uncategorized
Tagged Annie Rice, Best sellers, Book shops, books., Bookstores, commercial fiction, commodity, Dan Brown, Dean Koontz, Jan Karon, Janet Evanovich, Marketing, print-run, publishers, Publishing, shelf life, Used Books
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“Now We are Three” by Gareth Knight
Now we are three. That is to say – three years old. And we are Skylight Press. A brain child of my daughter Rebecca (AKA Rebsie) along with kindred spirit Daniel Staniforth, based in the USA, and we recently got together … Continue reading
Posted in British History, British Literature, Esoteric, Events, Literature, Recommended reads
Tagged Alan Richardson, Anthony Duncan, Archeology, Arthurian Tradition, authors, Bath, Birthday, Book Design, books., Celtic, Christian Mystical Tradition, Daniel Staniforth, Dion Fortune, England, esoteric, faery, fiction, Gareth Knight, Golden Dawn, Graphic Design, Helios Books, hermeticism, Hugh Fox, iain sinclair, Israel Regardie, literary, Literature, Magic, magical ritual methods, Margaret Lumley Brown, mediaeval history, Memoir, Merlin, Mystical, mythology, Nick Farrell, novel, Occult, occult fiction, Peregrin Wildoak, Peter Ackroyd, poetry, press, Psycogeography, Publisher, qabala, Rebecca Wilby, Rebsie Fairholm, ritual magic, Skylight Press, Society of Inner Light, Wendy Berg, Western Mysteries, Western Mystery Tradition, William G. Gray, Writers
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Stewart Farrar: Writer on a Broomstick by Elizabeth Guerra and Janet Farrar
Stewart Farrar was a World War II veteran, an accomplished script writer and a journalist who worked for many prominent and respected media companies such as Reuters and the newspaper Reveille. As a world traveler, Stewart had the opportunity to meet … Continue reading
Posted in British History, Esoteric, New authors, New books, Recommended reads
Tagged Alex Sanders, Alexandrine Witchcraft, books., Christopher Penczak, Elizabeth Guerra, esoteric, fiction, Gavin Bone, Gerald Gardner, janet farrar, Literature, Magic, Margot Adler, Novels, Occult, Phyllus Curott, R.J. Stewart, R.J. Stewart Books, ritual magic, Ronald Hutton, Science Fiction, science fiction novels, Stewart Farrar, The Craft, Wicca, Wiccan, Witchcraft, Witches
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The Avant-Garde is an Old Man!
Every writer aspiring to break new literary ground has been rattled by that old chestnut from Ecclesiastes: What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. And yet … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, Australian Literature, British Literature, Essays, Literary Criticism, Literature
Tagged 1920s, 1950s, 19th century france, 20th Century Literature, Adorno, Apollinaire, Aragon, Artaud, avant garde, beat generation, Beats, Benjamin, books., Breton, Brion Gysin, Calvino, Charles Baudelaire, Chekhov, Clement Greenberg, Conrad, Corso, Cryptogram, dada, DH Lawrence, Dreamscape, Dujardin, Ecclesiastes, Edgar Allan Poe, experimental literature, Ezra Pound, Faulkner, fiction, Frankfurt School, Free Association, Freud, Fuentes, Garcia Marquez, Ginsberg, Hamsun, Heine, Henry James, Holderlin, Horkheimer, Hybridity, Interior Monologue, Joyce, Kerouac, Kitsch, Lamantia, Laurence Stern, Lipogram, Literature, Lost Generation, Magic Realism, Magic Surrealism, Mansfield, Novalis, Novels, Oscar Wilde, Oulipo, palindrome, Perec, Peter Burger, poetry, Post Modernism, post modernity, post-modern, post-structuralism, Prose, prose and poetry, prose poem, Prose poetry, Proust, Quenau, Renato Poggioli, Rosalind Krauss, Soupault, Stream of Consciousness, Surrealism, TS Eliot, Vanguard, William Burroughs, William James, Woolf, writing
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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 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
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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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Skylight Booksignings!
Today’s booksigning at Waterstones Gloucester went well with ChrisHill signing copies of his recent novel, Song of the Sea God. Skylight’s one and only Rebsie Fairholm sat with him for the event, which was touted a success. Skylight booksignings have happened all … Continue reading
A Review of The Sacred Stone Circles of Stanton Drew – by Sue Vincent
When an author writes with a real passion for his subject it shines through every word. This is not the first book that Gordon Strong has published on the wonderful sacred landscape of Stanton Drew, but it is, I feel, … Continue reading
Posted in Esoteric, Literary Criticism, New books, Recommended reads, Reviews
Tagged Ancient Folklore, Ancient sites, Archeology, Book Reviews, books., British History, Celtic, England, English history, esoteric, Gordon Strong, Great Britain, Literature, Megalithis, Occult, sacred geometry, SC Vincent, Somerset, Stanton Drew, Stone Circles, Sue Vincent, Western Mysteries, Western Mystery Tradition
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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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Through the Skylight 