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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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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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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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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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Patrick Harpur on Skylight Press
Born in Windsor, Patrick Harpur began writing professionally in 1983, aged 33. Previously, he had travelled for a year in Africa before going to St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, to read English. Subsequently he did much of the reading and research … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Esoteric, Literature, New authors, New books
Tagged alchemy, Apparitions, BBC, Bigfoot, British Literature, Cambridge, Daimonic Reality, Daimons, Depth Psychology, Elves, English literature, esoteric, Faery Lore, fiction, folklore, Forteana, ghosts, Graham Hancock, Greek Mythology, hermeticism, Jacques Vallee, jung, Kabbalah, Literature, Magic, Marian, Mercurius, Michael Talbot, Monsters, Neoplatanism, novel, Occult, Patrick Harpur, philosophy, Platonism, poetry, Renaissance magic, Romantic Poetry, Science, Scientism, Shamanism, spiritualism, Stigmata, The Guardian, Thriller, tribal ritual, UFOs, West Dorset, Western Mysteries, Western Mystery Tradition, western mystery traditions, writer
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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
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