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Videos by Skylight Authors (Part I)

Posted on May 25, 2015 by Daniel

Here is a smattering of reading and interview videos from our literary authors. Happy browsing…. Iain Sinclair Rikki Ducornet Will Alexander Pierre Joris Garry Craig Powell Basil King Diana Durham Richard Froude Margaret Randall Hugh Fox Dee Sunshine … Continue reading →

Posted in Literature, Uncategorized | Tagged Basil King, Dee Sunshine, Diana Durham, fiction, Garry Craig Powell, Hugh Fox, iain sinclair, Margaret Randall, novel, performance, Pierre Joris, poetry, Public Reading, Reading, Richard Froude, Rikki Ducornet, Skylight Press, Will Alexander | Leave a comment

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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Diana Durham on Skylight Press

Posted on December 13, 2014 by Daniel

Diana Durham is a fascinating writer and poet who has been involved in the collective life of intentional community in England, the United States and Canada over the past thirty years. In the early 1980’s she was among a grouping … Continue reading →

Posted in British Literature, Literature, New authors, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads, Uncategorized | Tagged 3 Voices, Angels of Fire, Arthur, Arthuriad, Arthurian Legends, Attunement, British fiction, British Literature, British mysteries, British poetry, CD Baby, Christos Vayenas, Chrysalis Poetry, Curve of the Land, David Bohm, Diamond Press, Diana Durham, Discovery Channel, fiction, holy grail, Literature, megaliths, mythology, New Hampshire, Northwoods Press, novel, Perceval, poetry, Skylight Press, Sonnet, Sonnets, Unfolding Meaning, University College London, VoiceBox, Women's Healing, Women's Studies | Leave a comment

Breccia: Selected Poems 1972-86 by Pierre Joris

Posted on December 2, 2014 by Daniel

It is from our bodies’s furrows that the first permission arises. The drag of it. The pull of the pen across the magic writing pad. It is the necessary violence we all call life Breccia is an inspired grouping of … Continue reading →

Posted in American Literature, British Literature, Literature, New authors, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads | Tagged 20th Century Literature, Allen Fisher, American Poetry, avant garde, Avant garde literature, Avant Garde Poetry, Barzakh, Black Widow Press, Breccia, British Poetry Revival, Brooklyn, Collected poems, Don Byrd, Editions PHI, Eric Mottram, Experimental, Experimental poetry, Farrar Strauss Giroux, Jerome Rothenberg, Luxembourg, New York, nomad, Nomadism, Paul Celan, Pierre Joris, poems, Poems for the Millennium, poetry, Robert Kelly, Station Hill Press, SUNY | 1 Comment

Pierre Joris on Skylight Press

Posted on October 9, 2014 by Daniel

Born in 1946 in Strasbourg, France, raised in Luxembourg, Pierre Joris has moved between the US, Europe & North Africa for 50 years, publishing close to 50 books of poetry & essays, translations & anthologies. In 1992 he returned to … Continue reading →

Posted in American Literature, Literature, New authors, Poetry | Tagged 20th Century, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Alice Notley, Allen Fisher, American literature, American Poetry, anthologies, Anthology, Arab, Arab Poetry, avant garde, Black Widow Press, Carrie Noland, Charles Bernstein, Charles University, Chax Press, Christine Hume, Clayton Eshleman, Diwan Iffrikya, Ellen Sinopoli, Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company, Essay, experimental literature, Farrar, France, French, Giroux, Habib Tengour, Jean-Pierre Duprey, Jennifer Moxley, Jerome Rothenberg, Joel Chadabe, Luxembourg, Mansur al-Hallaj, Marjorie Perloff, Maurice Blanchot, Mohamed Bennis, New York, Nicole Brossard, Nicole Peyrafitte, Nomadic, Pablo Picasso, Paul Celan, performance, Performance art, performance artist, Peter Cockelbergh, Pierre Joris, poetics, poetry, postmodern, postmodernism, Regina Keil-Sagawe, Rilke, SALT Publishers, Skylight Press, Staruss, State University of New York, SUNY, translation, Tristan Tzara, Xavier Chabot | Leave a comment

Gareth Knight with Skylight Press

Posted on September 8, 2014 by Daniel

Posted in Esoteric, Recommended reads | Tagged Arthuriad, Arthurian Mysteries, Biography, British mysteries, Dion Fortune, English Mythology, esoteric, Esoteric Christian, esotericism, Faery Lore, fiction, folklore, French Mythology, Gareth Knight, Golden Dawn, Grail, Inklings, Literature, Magic, mediaeval, Medieval, Melusine, Mysteries, poetry, Qabalah, ritual magic, Skylight Press, tarot, Western Mysteries, Western Mystery Tradition | Leave a comment

Will Alexander nominated Poet Laureate of Los Angeles

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Daniel

Our congratulations to Will Alexander, who has been nominated ‘Poet Laureate’ of Los Angeles. Learn more about Will here: See the amazing poet read here: Skylight Press has proudly published two of Will’s books, Diary As Sin (Novel) and Kaleidoscopic … Continue reading →

Posted in Literature, Poetry | Tagged American literature, American Poetry, avant garde, California, Experimental poetry, Language poetry, Literary Awards, Literature, Los Angeles, poet, Poet Laureate, poetry, Skylight Press, Surrealism, Will Alexander | Leave a comment

Magic & Literature in Seamless States of Convergence

Posted on May 10, 2014 by Daniel

We are often asked why we publish esoteric and spiritual works alongside works of literature. For us, art (especially literature) and magic converge on one another seamlessly, and such convergences provide for interesting hybrid states within writing. While the genres we publish are … Continue reading →

Posted in Esoteric, Essays, Literature | Tagged Alan Moore, Art, Bardic, esoteric, Esoteric Fiction, fiction, Incantation, Literature, Magic, Magick, Mystery, novel, Occult, poetry, W.B. Yeats, writing | Leave a comment

A Few Recent Reviews of Skylight Books

Posted on March 17, 2014 by Daniel

Kaleidoscopic Omniscience by Will Alexander “Vermillion shades of astral haunts abound as Alexander takes his readers through a psychedelic romp that leaves the consciousness reeling. There’s nothing usual about Alexander’s visionary take on history: the contemporary, the ancient, and the … Continue reading →

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Christ and Qabalah by Gareth Knight and Anthony Duncan

Posted on November 21, 2013 by Daniel

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 | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: poetry

Videos by Skylight Authors (Part I)

A Few Strange New Hybridities in Literature

Diana Durham on Skylight Press

Breccia: Selected Poems 1972-86 by Pierre Joris

Pierre Joris on Skylight Press

Gareth Knight with Skylight Press

Will Alexander nominated Poet Laureate of Los Angeles

Magic & Literature in Seamless States of Convergence

A Few Recent Reviews of Skylight Books

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