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Michael Howard on Skylight Press
Michael Howard is an Anglo-Irish writer, historical researcher and editor. His work has become well-known and much respected after some 38 books on witchcraft, paganism and western occultism, including various tomes on the Norse-Germanic runes, folk traditions, angelic magic, faery … Continue reading
Posted in Esoteric, New authors
Tagged Angelology, Ben Fernee, Cunning Folk, esoteric, esotericism, Evan John Jones, Faery Lore, Feri, folk, Folklore Society, Gerald Gardner, History, Julia Philips, Magic, magic ritual, Magick, Michael Howard, Modern Wicca, Museum of WItchcraft, mythology, Nigel Jackson, Norse, Occult, occultism, pagan, Pagan Dawn, Pagan Federation, Pagan Front, Paganism, Pan Pacific Alliance, ritual, Robert Cochrane, Robert Cochrane Witchcraft Tradition, Ronald Hutton, secret societies, The Cauldron Magazine, Traditional Witchcraft, Tubal Cain, Wicca, Witchcraft
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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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The Lost Art of Potato Breeding by Rebsie Fairholm
Ever wondered why supermarket potatoes are so bland and boring? In the Andes, where potatoes originate, there are thousands of varieties with bright colours, beautiful markings, unusual shapes and variations of flavour and cooking quality. In the modern world, industrialised … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, New books, Recommended reads
Tagged Andes, blight, Botany, breeding, cloning, cross-breeding, cross-over, cultivars, cultivation, Daughter of the Soil, diploit, Flowers, Garden Alchemy, garden varieties, Gardening, Gardening Guide, heirlooms, heritage Gardening, heritage vegetables, History, Hobby, Horticultural, horticulture, hybridization, landraces, legumes, mutation, plant breeding, pollination, polyploidy, Potato, Potato Breeding, Potatoes, Rebsie Fairholm, Seeds, tetraploid, The Lost Art of Potato Breeding, tubers, vegetable breeding, vegetable varieties, vegetables
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Before the Dawn by Rupert Copping
In the beginning, the elders told him, there was neither light nor darkness, because in the beginning nothing existed. But then, for reasons that were unclear, the Holy Source had awakened like a person from sleep. When the Holy Source … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Literature, New authors, New books, Recommended reads
Tagged American History, Americas, Arayana, Art, British fiction, British Literature, Colonialism, conquistadors, Cultural heritage, culture, fiction, Folktale, Heritage, History, Holy Source, Identity, Indigenous culture, Indigenous peoples, Invasion, Landscape, Modernization, novel, Purini, Radiant War, Religion, Revolution, Revolutionary War, Rupert Copping, South America, South American History, spirituality, Tribal life, war
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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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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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Smatterings & Offerings
We are always interested in what our authors are doing, whether with Skylight or with other great presses. Here is a smattering of recent new release offerings from various places… IAIN SINCLAIR: Ghost Milk: Recent Adventures Among the Future Ruins … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, Australian Literature, British History, British Literature, Esoteric, Essays, Literature, New books, Recommended reads
Tagged Alan Richardson, American Poetry, Asia, British History, British Literature, Celtic, Dioscuri Press, Ebury Digital, esoteric, Essay Press, Essays, Faber & Faber, fiction, Golden Dawn, Gordon Strong, History, iain sinclair, John Matthews, Kerubim Press, Literature, London, Magic, Margaret Randall, Martin Anderson, Megalithica Books, megaliths, Mutus Liber Books, mythology, Nick Farrell, novel, Occult, Olympics, Peregrin Wildoak, poetry, Post-colonial, Rhizome, Shamanism, Shearsman Books, tarot, Western Mystery Tradition, Will Alexander, Wings Press
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