Tag Archives: Martin Anderson

A Few Strange New Hybridities in Literature

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Daniel

Of late, my rather strange and serpentine reading habits have yielded up examples of what might be called literary hybridities, where genres and styles work to subsume or coalesce. Of course, such genre bending is not even remotely new but … Continue reading →

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…And Egypt is the River by Michael S. Judge

Posted on September 22, 2013 by Daniel

Every so often a new voice disrupts the silence of sameness, evoking old ghosts and new phantoms with equal surety. …And Egypt Is the River is a collection of mystical prose-poems which the author describes as an attempt, based on … Continue reading →

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Smatterings & Offerings

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Daniel

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 →

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In Defence of Poesy: A Skylight Selection

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Daniel
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Skylight Fiction for the Holidaze?

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Daniel
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Interlocutors of Paradise by Martin Anderson

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Daniel

“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 →

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Martin Anderson on Skylight Press

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Daniel

“…It was a raw grey Parisian winter day. I was walking through the boulevards that a few years earlier had echoed to the sounds of students marching. In a small flat off the Rue Mouffetard I was introduced to a … Continue reading →

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