Tag Archives: Mexico

Rupert Copping on Skylight Press

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Daniel

Rupert Copping was born in London into an eccentric and bohemian family. As in infant, in the early fifties, he was taken to Ecuador by his mother and stepfather – the latter being, among other things, a herpetologist. As a … Continue reading →

Posted in Literature, New authors, Uncategorized | Tagged Abstract art, Abstract Expressionism, Alpujarrra, Art, Before the Dawn, Bohemian, British fiction, Candle-making, Denmark, Ecuador, Experimental Art, Exploding Galaxy, fiction, Figurative, Granada City, Indigenous tribes, Isle of Skye, Jungle, Landscape, Literature, London, Merchant Navy, Mexico, Morocco, novel, Oxford University, Painting, Portugal, Rainforest, Rupert Copping, Scotland, Scottish Fiction, scottish highlands, Skye, Spain, Text Book writer, traveller | Leave a comment

What Skylight Authors are Reading

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Daniel

It’s always fascinating to see what writers read, where they find sustenance and inspiration for their own work. A few Skylight authors have graciously agreed to let us in on what they are currently reading, whether for guilty pleasure or … Continue reading →

Posted in American Literature, Australian Literature, British History, British Literature, Esoteric, Literary Criticism, Literature, Recommended reads | Tagged 13th Century, Alan Richardson, Aldous Huxley, Alex Owen, Allen Mandelbaum, Andre Lebey, Andrew Joron, Andrew Loog Oldham, Anna Lanyon, Antonio Tabucchi, Antony Beevor, Apollinaire, Arthuriad, Arthurian Legends, Aztec, Bachelard, Barbara Pym, Bin Ramke, Bolano, Bombay, books., Borges, Brian Lucas, British Literature, Celtic, Celtic Myth, Cesar Vallejo, China Mieville, Chris Daniels, Chris Hill, Christopher Middleton, Ciaran Carson, Clark Coolidge, conquest of gaul, Creole, Daniel Staniforth, Dante, David Mitchell, Dean Radin, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Dion Fortune, Divine Comedy, Druids, Elaine Pagels, Eleni Stecopoulous, Elizabeth Robinson, Emily Toder, faery, Faery Lore, feminism, French, G. M. Fraser, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Galahad, Gareth Knight, Garry Craig Powell, Gaul, Gawain, George Devine, Gettysburg, Giuseppe di Lampedusa, Gordon Strong, Grail Hallows, Greek Mythology, H.L. Mencken, Hindu, holy grail, Hugh Fox, imminent publication, Indonesia, irish, Jack Collom, Jack Schaeffer, Jeet Thayil, John Matthews, John Sakkis, John Woodhouse, Joseph Noble, julius caesar, Julius Ceasar, Karen Ralls, Kathleen Raine, Kirk Marshall, Laird Hunt, Latin America, Leonora Carrington, Lissa Wolsak, Literature, Longinus, Lucretius, Margaret Randall, Maya, Mayan History, mediaeval, Medieval, Melusine, Mexico, Michael Crichton, Michael D. Coe, Michael Flatt, Michael Ladeen, Michael Palma, Modernism, Moon Magic, Murakami, Murilo Mendez, music, Nicholas Kilmer, Nicholas Rawson, Noah Eli Gordon, Normandi Ellis, Occult, Oscar Lewis, Pablo Neruda, Perceval, Peter Akroyd, Portugal, Pre-Reconstruction, R.J. Stewart, R.S. Loomis, Rebecca Seiferle, Rebecca Wilby, Richard Froude, Ricoeur, Rikki Ducornet, rite of pan, Robert Kloss, Roberto Calasso, Roman, Romance, Rupert Copping, Rushdie, Sam Thompson, Samuel Beckett, Sea Priestess, Seth Landman, Skylight Press, Sonali Deraniyagala, Spanish, SpringGun Press, Steven Johnson, T.A. Jenkins, Taiye Selasi, Templars, Tennyson, Terence McKenna, Thailand, vercingetorix, Victorian, W.A. Nitze, Welsh, William Blake, William Carlos Williams, William Pitt Root, Wings Press, World War Two | Leave a comment

Still Booming: The Revolutionary Enclave of South and Central American Literature

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Daniel

With American and British literature intent on creating black-holes of postmodernity and worm-holes to the neo-neo perhaps the most sturdy literary platform of that last few decades has been the ‘boom latinoamericano.’ Spurred on by its own vangardia to challenge … Continue reading →

Posted in American Literature, Literature, Reviews | Tagged Alejo Carpentier, Argentina, avant garde, Beckett, Bolivia, books., Boom, Carlos Fuentes, Central America, Cuba, experimental literature, fiction, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Joyce, Julio Cortazar, Latin American Boom, Latin American Literature, latin american writers, Literature, Mann, Mario Vargas Llosa, Mexico, Modernism, novel, orphan generation, poetry, Postmodernism. Magic Realism, Proust, South American, south american continent, South American Literature, Spanish Literature, vangardia | 3 Comments

Margaret Randall on Skylight Press

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Daniel

Margaret Randall’s generation yielded up plenty of revolutionary writers, a veritable plethora of wild-eyed subversives loading their free verse and prosaic monologues with anti-authoritarian invectives. But where many are radical on the page, few actually imbue their lives with those … Continue reading →

Posted in New authors, Poetry | Tagged activism, Albuquerque, American literature, Cuba, environmentalism, feminism, Literature, Mexico, New Mexico, photography, poet, poetry, revolutionary, Sandinistas, Something's Wrong with the Cornfields | 1 Comment

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Rupert Copping on Skylight Press

What Skylight Authors are Reading

Still Booming: The Revolutionary Enclave of South and Central American Literature

Margaret Randall on Skylight Press

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