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Tag Archives: British poetry
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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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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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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Iain Sinclair’s Suicide Bridge
Originally posted on Tears in the Fence:
The new edition of Iain Sinclair’s Suicide Bridge: A Book of the Furies, A Mythology of the South & East – Autumn 1973 to Spring 1978 (Skylight Press 2013) expanded on the original…
Posted in British History, British Literature, Literature, Poetry, Recommended reads, Reviews, Uncategorized
Tagged Brian Catling, British Literature, British poetry, David Caddy, English history, Hybrid poetry, iain sinclair, Literature, London, Mystical Poetry, poetry, Prose poems, Psychogeography, Suicide Bridge, Tears in the Fence, Test Centre, William Blake
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The Groundlings of Divine Will
Originally posted on Tears in the Fence:
Daniel Staniforth’s The Groundlings of Divine Will (Skylight Press 2013) http://www.skylightpress.co.uk sees Shakespeare’s first audience, ‘the groundlings of the pit’, as a secret society addressing the Master Of Revels in a glorious riposte…
Posted in British Literature, Literary Criticism, Literature, Recommended reads, Reviews, Uncategorized
Tagged Book Review, British History, British Literature, British poetry, Daniel Staniforth, David Caddy, Elizabethan, English history, experimental literature, History, hybrid literature, Hybrid poetry, poetry, Prose poems, review, Skylight Press, Tears in the Fence, Tudor, William Shakespeare
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More from Iain Sinclair… Test Centre announces Red Eye
On the back of our all New and Expanded reissue of Suicide Bridge, Test Centre have just announced that another reissue from that period, Red Eye, is now available for Pre-order. Here is their information and links for the release… … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Events, Literature, New books, Recommended reads
Tagged Albion Village Press, Brian Catling, British Literature, British poetry, Chris Torrance, English literature, English poetry, Experimental poetry, Film, Hackney, iain sinclair, Launch, London, Lud Heat, Maggot Street, mythology, Psychogeography, Reading, Red Eye, Special, Stoke Newington, Test Centre
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Suicide Bridge by Iain Sinclair
A brand new edition comprising the most complete version of Suicide Bridge yet published, it includes three extra “books” of material, which formed part of the original work but was not included in previous editions. It also includes photographs and … Continue reading
Posted in British History, British Literature, Literature, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads
Tagged 1979, Alan Moore, Albion, Albion Village Press, Allen Ginsburg, Beat poetry., Bladud, Brian Catling, British Literature, British poetry, Chris Torrance, Coleridge, Contemporary Poetry, Ed Dorn, England, English poetry, Essay, fiction, Green Horse, iain sinclair, Jeff Johnson, Jeff Nuttall, Literature, London, Lud Heat, Meantime (One), Michael McClure, Myth, mythology, Orbital, PCL British Poetry Conference, Perfect Bound, poetics, poetry, Psychogeography, Robert Sheppard, Skylight Press, Suicide Bridge, Thriller, William Blake, writing
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The Groundlings of Divine Will by Daniel Staniforth
“We are the collective pronoun not to be named; the sacred amalgam, the response harbingers around the fringes of refinery. We are informers and fetishists, sycophants and revolutionaries, the pliant in the trenches of experience, the silent mummers in supplication … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Literature, New books, Poetry
Tagged alchemy, Ancient Britain, Ben Johnson, British Literature, British poetry, Cathars, Catholicism, Christianity, Christopher Marlowe, Church, Church history, conspiracy, Daniel Staniforth, Drama, Elizabethan History, Emmanuel Swedenborg, English history, English literature, English poetry, esotericism, Globe, Gordiano Bruno, Gospels, Heresy, History, Holinshed, John Dee, Literary Criticism, Literature, Magic, Masons, Montaigne, Mystery Schools, Occult, Orthodoxy, Plays, Playwrights, poetry, postmodern, Religion, ritual, Rosicrucians, Seneca, Shakespeare, Shakespearean Criticism, Swan, Templars, theatre, Theology, Tudor History, Walter Raleigh, Western Mysteries, William Shakespeare, Witchcraft
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Interlocutors of Paradise by Martin Anderson
“Someone is singing, beyond the patio and the hedgerow, a song so sweet it might have been sung in paradise. Inconsolable melos. A lyric in a strange tongue. It sounds like part elegy, part yearning. Like someone nostalgic, perhaps, for … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Literature, New authors, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads
Tagged Atmospheric, Autobiography, Biography, British Literature, british poet, British poetry, Colonialism, Edmund Spenser, English poetry, gustaf sobin, Gustav Sobin, Joseph Conrad, Landscape, Literature, London, Martin Anderson, Meditations, Memoir, Nathaniel Tarn, Nature Poetry, poetry, Post Colonialism, Post-Co, Prose poems, Prose poetry, Symbolism, The Thames, travel, Travelogue, W.G. Sebald, Walter Raleigh
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