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Tag Archives: English poetry
Christ and Qabalah by Gareth Knight and Anthony Duncan
Me Myself (of which I make so great a fuss) is a mere, brittle spike of consciousness on the circumference of being; a tiny terminal of an unplumbed depth. This opening stanza, read in the quiet nave of an old … Continue reading
Posted in British History, British Literature, Esoteric, Literature, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads
Tagged Anglican, Anglican Curate, Anthony Duncan, Biography, Browning, Christ, Christ & Qabalah, Christianity, Christina Rosetti, Church history, Church of England, Cloud of Unknowing, Collaboration, Corbridgem, Devotional, Dion Fortune, Early Church, Emily Bronte, English poetry, esoteric, Friendship, Gareth Knight, Highnam, History, Julian of Norwich, Kathleen Raine, Magic, mysticism, Newcastle, Occult, Parkend, poetry, Qabalah, Richard Rolle, Society of Inner Light, Tennyson, Tewkesbury, Victorian, Warkworth, Whitley Mill
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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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Weaver in the Sluices by Daniel Staniforth
Weaver in the Sluices is Daniel’s first collection of published poetry, comprising over 100 works which are intensely individual, richly mystical, passionate, resplendent and musical. Daniel is equally at home in outer and inner landscapes, crafting them into unique but … Continue reading
Posted in New books, Poetry
Tagged Daniel Staniforth, English poetry, Literature, poetry, Weaver in the Sluices
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Anthology Wars: Which is the definitive Contemporary British Poetry collection?
Much has been made of the recent spate of Contemporary British Anthologies in literary circles and many have written about the ongoing wrestling match over the 20th Century British poetry canon. As Skylight Press gears up to kick off its … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Recommended reads
Tagged Anthology, books., British Literature, British poetry, English poetry, Irish poetry, Literature, poems, poetry, poetry collection, poets, Scottish poetry
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World War I Poets
Skylight Press authors, Rebecca Wilby and Alan Richardson, write fascinating accounts of World War One era Britain. Here is an extensive article about the Great War Poets reprinted from from http://net.lib.byu.edu/english/wwi/poets/poets.html Poets of the Great War On November 11, 1985 (the … Continue reading
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Tagged anthologies, British poetry, English poetry, first world war, great war, poetry, trench war, war, war poets, WW1
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Through the Skylight 