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Tag Archives: British Literature
Gareth Knight’s ‘Son of Hermes’
Beginning in November 2015, Gareth Knight posted a series of blogs under the heading ‘Son of Hermes.’ Part one is reprinted below and you can read the following instalments at the Gareth Knight Blogspot page. Skylight Press has published various new … Continue reading
The Curve of the Land: Review by Kevan Manwaring
The Curve of the Land: Diana Durham – a review By Kevan Manwaring This thin novel by American-based British writer Diana Durham is weighty with ideas – like narrow uprights supporting the monumental capstone of a cromlech. It charts a contemporary … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Literary Criticism, Literature, New authors, Recommended reads, Reviews
Tagged Ancient Britain, Book Review, Britain, British fiction, British Literature, British Novel, Cornwall, Cromlech, Curve of the Land, Diana Durham, Dion Fortune, Durham, Earth Mysteries, Ecology, Environment, environmentalism, fiction, Kevan Manwaring, Megalith, novel, review, Sacred Earth, Skylight Press, standing stones, Stone Henge
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The Curve of the Land by Diana Durham
“The small crevice that formed the only entrance showed no evidence of the light which must be entering through the other gaps in the stones. It was black as if opening directly into the depths of the earth; an entrance … Continue reading
Posted in British History, British Literature, Esoteric, Literature, New authors, New books, Recommended reads
Tagged 1980s, Ancient History, Ancient Stones, Avebury, Britain, British fiction, British History, British Literature, British Novel, Cornwall, Diana Durham, Ecology, England, English history, Environment, environmentalism, esoteric, Esoteric novel, faery, fiction, folklore, Great Britain, Highlands, Lake District, Literature, Megalithic sites, megaliths, mysticism, new age, novel, Novelist, occult fiction, Pennines, Pericles, poet, Quoit, Rollright stones, Shakespeare, Skylight Press, South West Britain, standing stones, Stone Circles, Stonehenge, The Curve, Underworld, Wales, West Penwith, Western Mysteries, Western Mystery Tradition
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du Lac by Alan Richardson
“So I cannot say for sure how old I am because I cannot see my beginnings. When I try to look, I’m peering into the lake bottom which is my genesis: things are stirred up, rising like muddy, formless wraiths … Continue reading
Posted in British History, British Literature, Esoteric, Literature, New books, Recommended reads
Tagged Adept, Alan Richardson, Aleister Crowley, Angela Carter, archeytpe, Arthur, Arthuriad, Arthurian, British fiction, British History, British Literature, British Novel, Christine Hartley, del acqs, Dion Fortune, du lac, English history, English literature, esoteric, Experimental novel, faery, Fairy, Fairy tales, Fee, Fey, fiction, Folk tales, Grail Lore, Hoffman, Holly Ricioppo, holy grail, initiation, Kafka, lac, Lake, Lancelot, Legends, Magic, Magick, Myth, mythology, novel, Occult, occult fiction, satire, Secret Society, Swift, Wendy Berg, Western Mysteries, Western Mystery Tradition, William G. Gray
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Diana Durham on Skylight Press
Diana Durham is a fascinating writer and poet who has been involved in the collective life of intentional community in England, the United States and Canada over the past thirty years. In the early 1980’s she was among a grouping … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Literature, New authors, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads, Uncategorized
Tagged 3 Voices, Angels of Fire, Arthur, Arthuriad, Arthurian Legends, Attunement, British fiction, British Literature, British mysteries, British poetry, CD Baby, Christos Vayenas, Chrysalis Poetry, Curve of the Land, David Bohm, Diamond Press, Diana Durham, Discovery Channel, fiction, holy grail, Literature, megaliths, mythology, New Hampshire, Northwoods Press, novel, Perceval, poetry, Skylight Press, Sonnet, Sonnets, Unfolding Meaning, University College London, VoiceBox, Women's Healing, Women's Studies
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4th Anniversary Special: New Expanded Edition of Rebecca Wilby’s This Wretched Splendour
To celebrate our 4th anniversary at Skylight Press, and in honour of the First World War Centenary, we have reissued our very first book, This Wretched Splendour, in an all-new expanded edition. This new edition includes a one-act play, Wild With … Continue reading
Posted in British History, British Literature, Literature, New books, Recommended reads
Tagged 4th anniversary, British Drama, British History, British Literature, Centenary, Drama, English Drama, English history, English literature, First WIrkd War Centenary, first world war, great war, Literature, Michael Billington, Plays, Rebecca Wilby, Rebsie Fairholm, Siegfried Sassoon, Skylight Press, The Guardian, theatre, This Wretched Splendour, War poetry, Wilfred Owen, World War One, Wretched Splendour
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Foam of the Past by Fiona Macleod (Ed. Steve Blamires)
“…Fiona Macleod was clearly a gentlelady of breeding and intellect. She could be trusted. She was almost ‘one of us’ – but not quite. It was this slight difference that allowed her to deal with dark and frightening characters and … Continue reading
Posted in British History, British Literature, Esoteric, Literature, New authors, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads
Tagged Ancient Folklore, British Isles, British Literature, British mysteries, British poetry, Celtic, Celtic Otherworld, Celtic twilight, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Early Church, Faeries, Faery Lore, fin-de-siècle, Fiona Macleod, Folk tales, folklore, Gaelic, Golden Dawn, Gothic, Hebrides, hermetic order of the golden dawn, Highlands, Iona, Literature, macgregor mathers, Magic, Mystical, mythology, Nature, Occult, Political polemics, Realm of Faery, scottish highlands, Scottish Literature, Scottish poetry, Skylight Press, Steve Blamires, Victorian, Victorian literature, W.B. Yeats, Western Mystery Tradition, William Sharp
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De-fleshing out Characters in the Modern Novel
As we live in an age where we are producing novels and stories en masse it would seem that we should be somewhere near to perfecting the art of characterization in our fictions. Any writer worth their salt will know … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Essays, Literary Criticism, Literature, Recommended reads, Reviews
Tagged Alan Moore, Alan Richardson, Aristotle, British Literature, British Novel, character, character development, character study, characterisation, coil, contemporary novel, corporeal, Daniel Staniforth, Dark Light, David Mitchell, disembodiment, E. M. Forster, English literature, English novel, essence, fiction, Ghostwritten, History, intelligence, Literature, Modern Novel, narrative, novel, personality, plot, severed heads, Storytelling, The Collector Collector, Tibor Fischer, Tom Jones, voice, Voice of the Fire
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Fiona Macleod on Skylight Press
Much is still uncertain and undiscovered about the Scottish writer, William Sharp. Born in Paisley on the 12th September 1855, William Sharp passed away on the 12th of December 1905. He was buried within Castello di Maniace in Sicily, Italy at fifty … Continue reading
Posted in British History, British Literature, Esoteric, Literature, New books, Recommended reads
Tagged Anthology, British History, British Literature, Celtic, celtic history, Celtic Literature, Celtic twilight, dante gabriel rossetti, Elizabeth Amelia Sharp, Fable, fiction, Fiona Macleod, folklore, Gaelic Literature, Gaelic studies, Glasgow, Maude Gonne, mythology, PreRaphaelites, Scottish history, Scottish Literature, Steve Blamires, story collection, Swinburne, Victorian, Walter Scott, William Sharp, Yeats
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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
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