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Tag Archives: Borges
A Few Strange New Hybridities in Literature
Of late, my rather strange and serpentine reading habits have yielded up examples of what might be called literary hybridities, where genres and styles work to subsume or coalesce. Of course, such genre bending is not even remotely new but … Continue reading →
Posted in Literary Criticism, Literature, Recommended reads, Reviews
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Tagged Absurdism, Abuse, Angela Carter, Aqueous Books, Art, avant garde, Basil King, Beloved, Bhanu Kapil, Black Mountain, Blasphemy, Book Review, Borges, Carolyn Zaikowski, City Lights, City Lights Press, Colonialism, Daniel Staniforth, Dzanc Books, Eco Poetry, ekphrasis, Elizabeth Robinson, Escapist, faery, Fantasy, fiction, Flash Fiction, Genre, George Gissing, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Graphic novels, Green Man, Hieroglyphs, Historical novel, History, Hoffman, Hybrid fiction, hybrid literature, Hybrid poetry, iain sinclair, Imagination, Jack Collom, Jonathan Carroll, Kafka, Kenneth Patchen, Klee, Learning to Draw, Leaves of Grass, Literature, Marsh Hawk Press, Martin Anderson, Mayflies, Monkey Puzzle, Monkey Puzzle Press, mythology, Nancy Stohlman, Native American, Nature Poetry, novel, Nymph, Omnidawn, Paintings, Pastorale, poetry, Pure Slush Books, Red Fox, River, Romantic, Ros Barber, Sara Veglahn, Saxon Churches, Scandinavian, Selah Saterstrom, Shakespeare, Shearsman Books, Short Stories, Skylight Press, small press, Surrealism, Thames, Toni Morrison, Underwater, Victorian Novel, Vixen, Voyeurism, Walt Whitman, Wilkie Collins, Women in White
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What Skylight Authors are Reading
It’s always fascinating to see what writers read, where they find sustenance and inspiration for their own work. A few Skylight authors have graciously agreed to let us in on what they are currently reading, whether for guilty pleasure or … Continue reading →
Posted in American Literature, Australian Literature, British History, British Literature, Esoteric, Literary Criticism, Literature, Recommended reads
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Tagged 13th Century, Alan Richardson, Aldous Huxley, Alex Owen, Allen Mandelbaum, Andre Lebey, Andrew Joron, Andrew Loog Oldham, Anna Lanyon, Antonio Tabucchi, Antony Beevor, Apollinaire, Arthuriad, Arthurian Legends, Aztec, Bachelard, Barbara Pym, Bin Ramke, Bolano, Bombay, books., Borges, Brian Lucas, British Literature, Celtic, Celtic Myth, Cesar Vallejo, China Mieville, Chris Daniels, Chris Hill, Christopher Middleton, Ciaran Carson, Clark Coolidge, conquest of gaul, Creole, Daniel Staniforth, Dante, David Mitchell, Dean Radin, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Dion Fortune, Divine Comedy, Druids, Elaine Pagels, Eleni Stecopoulous, Elizabeth Robinson, Emily Toder, faery, Faery Lore, feminism, French, G. M. Fraser, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Galahad, Gareth Knight, Garry Craig Powell, Gaul, Gawain, George Devine, Gettysburg, Giuseppe di Lampedusa, Gordon Strong, Grail Hallows, Greek Mythology, H.L. Mencken, Hindu, holy grail, Hugh Fox, imminent publication, Indonesia, irish, Jack Collom, Jack Schaeffer, Jeet Thayil, John Matthews, John Sakkis, John Woodhouse, Joseph Noble, julius caesar, Julius Ceasar, Karen Ralls, Kathleen Raine, Kirk Marshall, Laird Hunt, Latin America, Leonora Carrington, Lissa Wolsak, Literature, Longinus, Lucretius, Margaret Randall, Maya, Mayan History, mediaeval, Medieval, Melusine, Mexico, Michael Crichton, Michael D. Coe, Michael Flatt, Michael Ladeen, Michael Palma, Modernism, Moon Magic, Murakami, Murilo Mendez, music, Nicholas Kilmer, Nicholas Rawson, Noah Eli Gordon, Normandi Ellis, Occult, Oscar Lewis, Pablo Neruda, Perceval, Peter Akroyd, Portugal, Pre-Reconstruction, R.J. Stewart, R.S. Loomis, Rebecca Seiferle, Rebecca Wilby, Richard Froude, Ricoeur, Rikki Ducornet, rite of pan, Robert Kloss, Roberto Calasso, Roman, Romance, Rupert Copping, Rushdie, Sam Thompson, Samuel Beckett, Sea Priestess, Seth Landman, Skylight Press, Sonali Deraniyagala, Spanish, SpringGun Press, Steven Johnson, T.A. Jenkins, Taiye Selasi, Templars, Tennyson, Terence McKenna, Thailand, vercingetorix, Victorian, W.A. Nitze, Welsh, William Blake, William Carlos Williams, William Pitt Root, Wings Press, World War Two
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Martin Anderson on Skylight Press
“…It was a raw grey Parisian winter day. I was walking through the boulevards that a few years earlier had echoed to the sounds of students marching. In a small flat off the Rue Mouffetard I was introduced to a … Continue reading →
Posted in British Literature, Literature, New authors, Poetry
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Tagged Borges, British Literature, British poetry, China, English literature, English poetry, Essex, Far East, Graham Greene, Hong Kong, Interlocutors of Paradise, London, Martin Anderson, meta narratives, Nathaniel Tarn, Orientalism, poems, poetry, Post Colonialism, Post-Co, Prose poetry, Shearsman Books, The Philippines, travel
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Into the Mythopoeia…
As we eagerly await the new edition of The Magical World of the Inklings by Gareth Knight, let’s have a look at other great mythopoeic works of literature. Since the 6th Century tales of Phereydes of Syros, the world of … Continue reading →
Posted in Recommended reads
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Tagged Borges, C.S. Lewis, Calvino, Fantasy, fiction, mythopoeia, novel, Tolkien
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