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Tag Archives: World War One
4th Anniversary Special: New Expanded Edition of Rebecca Wilby’s This Wretched Splendour
To celebrate our 4th anniversary at Skylight Press, and in honour of the First World War Centenary, we have reissued our very first book, This Wretched Splendour, in an all-new expanded edition. This new edition includes a one-act play, Wild With … Continue reading
Posted in British History, British Literature, Literature, New books, Recommended reads
Tagged 4th anniversary, British Drama, British History, British Literature, Centenary, Drama, English Drama, English history, English literature, First WIrkd War Centenary, first world war, great war, Literature, Michael Billington, Plays, Rebecca Wilby, Rebsie Fairholm, Siegfried Sassoon, Skylight Press, The Guardian, theatre, This Wretched Splendour, War poetry, Wilfred Owen, World War One, Wretched Splendour
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A Few Recent Reviews of Skylight Books
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
Posted in American Literature, British History, British Literature, Esoteric, Literary Criticism, Literature, Recommended reads, Reviews
Tagged Alan Richardson, Alexander, American Poetry, Anthony Duncan, avant garde, Book Reviews, British fiction, British Literature, British poetry, Charles Olson, Christ, christian, Daniel Staniforth, David Caddy, Dion Fortune, dr john dee, esoteric, experimental fiction, fiction, Gareth Knight, Garry Craig Powell, Hamlet, HTML GIant, iain sinclair, John Dee, Lipstick & Politics, Literature, Magic of the Ordinary, Michael S. Judge, novel, Occult, Patrick James Dunagan, Paula Mendoza, Peregrin Wildoak, Persian Gulf, Plutarch, poetry, qabala, Reviews, Robert Duncan, Shakespeare, Sting, Surrealism, Tears in the Fence, UAE, Will Alexander, William Blake, World War One
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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
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The Abbey Papers by Gareth Knight and Rebecca Wilby
Before its dissolution by Henry VIII the Abbey was a group of buildings that facilitated prayer, meditation, service, but also served as a centre of deep learning. It was a self-contained autonomous zone for all facets of spirituality; a sepulchre … Continue reading
Posted in Esoteric, New books, Recommended reads
Tagged Abbey, Christian Mysticism, Cosmic Doctrine, Devotional, Dion Fortune, esoteric, Gareth Knight, Masonic, meditation, Occult, qabala, Rebecca Wilby, ritual magic, Temple, Western Mysteries, Western Mystery Tradition, World War One, WW1
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Through the Skylight 