RSS feed
-
Our main website …
-
Recent Posts
Categories
Independent bookshops
Presses we like
Sites we like
Skylighters
- Alan Richardson
- Basil & Martha King
- Chris Hill
- Daniel Staniforth
- Darryl Sloan
- Dee Sunshine
- Denise Sallee
- Diana Durham
- Elizabeth Guerra
- Gareth Knight
- Garry Craig Powell
- Gordon Strong
- Hugh Fox
- Iain Sinclair
- Janet Farrar
- John Matthews
- Kevan Manwaring
- Kirk Marshall
- Margaret Randall
- Martin Anderson
- Michael Howard
- Mike Harris
- Nick Farrell
- Patrick Harpur
- Peregrin Wildoak
- Pierre Joris
- Richard Froude
- Rikki Ducornet
- Rupert Copping
- Skylight Press
- Steve Blamires
- Wendy Berg
- William G. Gray
Tag Archives: war
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
Leave a comment
Geordie’s War by Alan Richardson
“This is the story of one man who served throughout the Great War, at the very front of the Fronts in the most brutal battles in history, and achieved that most astonishing feat of all – he survived. His name … Continue reading
Posted in British History, British Literature, Literature, New books, Recommended reads
Tagged Alan Richardson, Ancestry, Anglo Saxon, Anthropology, Biography, Britain, British History, British Soldier, Coal Miners, England, first world war, Flanders, Genealogy, Geordie, Geordie Safety Lamps, George Matthew Richardson, Grandfather, great war, Haddaway, Howay, Jacobite rebellion, Military, Military Medal, Miners, National Memory, Newcastle, No Man's Land, Northumberland, over the topTrench War, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, Soldier, Somme, Sting, Time, Tommy, Toon, Trench Warfare, war, Watch, Wor Geordie, working-class Britain, World War One
1 Comment
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
Posted in Poetry, Recommended reads
Tagged anthologies, British poetry, English poetry, first world war, great war, poetry, trench war, war, war poets, WW1
1 Comment
Through the Skylight 