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Darryl Sloan on Skylight Press
It has been a while since we presented a new author to the wider public so it is a great thrill and privilege to introduce Darryl Sloan – an author, musician, technician, and all around thespian who has developed quite … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Esoteric, Essays, Literary Criticism, Music, New authors, New books, Recommended reads, Reviews, Uncategorized
Tagged Agnosticism, Art, atheism, British, Buddhism, Christianity, Computer Programming, Darryl Sloan, Education, esoteric, fiction, Horror Movies, I Universe, irish, Magic, New authors, New books, Northern Ireland, Occult, philosophy, Protestant, Psychokinesis, Religion, Satanism, Science, Skylight Press, spirituality, Telekinesis, Ulster, Video Games, writing, Youtube
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Suicide Bridge by Iain Sinclair
A brand new edition comprising the most complete version of Suicide Bridge yet published, it includes three extra “books” of material, which formed part of the original work but was not included in previous editions. It also includes photographs and … Continue reading
Posted in British History, British Literature, Literature, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads
Tagged 1979, Alan Moore, Albion, Albion Village Press, Allen Ginsburg, Beat poetry., Bladud, Brian Catling, British Literature, British poetry, Chris Torrance, Coleridge, Contemporary Poetry, Ed Dorn, England, English poetry, Essay, fiction, Green Horse, iain sinclair, Jeff Johnson, Jeff Nuttall, Literature, London, Lud Heat, Meantime (One), Michael McClure, Myth, mythology, Orbital, PCL British Poetry Conference, Perfect Bound, poetics, poetry, Psychogeography, Robert Sheppard, Skylight Press, Suicide Bridge, Thriller, William Blake, writing
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Conversation with Wendy Berg
Author of two Skylight books on the Arthurian mysteries (Red Tree, White Tree and Gwenevere & the Round Table) Wendy Berg is an experienced practitioner in the Western Mystery Tradition and practical ritual magic. She is an authority on Egyptian, … Continue reading
Posted in British History, British Literature, Esoteric, Literature, Recommended reads
Tagged Alan Richardson, alternative health care, Ancient History, Arthuriad, Arthurian, Celtic, Chinese Medicine, Christian Mysticism, Egyptian, England, esoteric, faery, Faery Lore, Finland, folklore, Gareth Knight, Grail, Great Britain, hermeticism, Hieroglyphs, Inner realms, Ironmongery, Kalevala, Legends, Magic, Magic Symbolism, magical fraternity, Magical Traditions, mediaeval, Melusine, Mike Harris, Musician, mythology, Northern Lights, Occult, Old Straight Track, pagan, Pianist, Polarity Magic, Priest, Priestess, qabala, Qabalah, Sacred Earth, skylight books, Tibet, Watkins, Wendy Berg, Western Mystery Tradition, writing
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The Avant-Garde is an Old Man!
Every writer aspiring to break new literary ground has been rattled by that old chestnut from Ecclesiastes: What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. And yet … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, Australian Literature, British Literature, Essays, Literary Criticism, Literature
Tagged 1920s, 1950s, 19th century france, 20th Century Literature, Adorno, Apollinaire, Aragon, Artaud, avant garde, beat generation, Beats, Benjamin, books., Breton, Brion Gysin, Calvino, Charles Baudelaire, Chekhov, Clement Greenberg, Conrad, Corso, Cryptogram, dada, DH Lawrence, Dreamscape, Dujardin, Ecclesiastes, Edgar Allan Poe, experimental literature, Ezra Pound, Faulkner, fiction, Frankfurt School, Free Association, Freud, Fuentes, Garcia Marquez, Ginsberg, Hamsun, Heine, Henry James, Holderlin, Horkheimer, Hybridity, Interior Monologue, Joyce, Kerouac, Kitsch, Lamantia, Laurence Stern, Lipogram, Literature, Lost Generation, Magic Realism, Magic Surrealism, Mansfield, Novalis, Novels, Oscar Wilde, Oulipo, palindrome, Perec, Peter Burger, poetry, Post Modernism, post modernity, post-modern, post-structuralism, Prose, prose and poetry, prose poem, Prose poetry, Proust, Quenau, Renato Poggioli, Rosalind Krauss, Soupault, Stream of Consciousness, Surrealism, TS Eliot, Vanguard, William Burroughs, William James, Woolf, writing
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Kaleidoscopic Omniscience by Will Alexander
In the contemporary American poetry scene Will Alexander stands alone as a unique voice, regularly penning what fellow poet Brian Lucas recently described to me as “oracular, vatic, cosmically penetrating poetry.” Perhaps the most obvious categorisation is to place him … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, Literature, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads
Tagged Aime Cesaire, Albania, American Poetry, Andre Breton, Antonin Artaud, Asia, avant garde, Avant Garde Poetry, Bob Kaufman, Brian Lucas, Channelling, contemporary american poetry, Contemporary Poetry, Cosmology, Diary as Sin, Dictatorship, Dylan Thomas, Eliot Weinburger, enver hoxha, Enver Hxha, Experimental poetry, Haiti, Jonathan Skinner, Kaleidoscopic Omniscience, Language poetry, Literature, Los Angeles, Mark Scroggins, Octavio Paz, Philip Lamantia, poetry, Rimbaud, Surreal Poetry, Surrealism, Symbolism, Symbolist poetry, Tibet, Will Alexander, writing
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Lud Heat: A Book of the Dead Hamlets by Iain Sinclair
Standing there, on a walk along the whole chain of Hawksmoor churches, we notice five minor obelisks in the fenced area beyond Blake’s burial slab. The Old Street obelisk is aligned beyond the boundary wall: the point of force is discovered. We also come … Continue reading
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The Cult of Seizure by Rikki Ducornet
The lunatic algebra of Love. The frenzied orbits of Mood. The malarial temperatures of Wound. Symbols of the Cult of Seizure: This flesh, this amulet incised. This hot spoor of predators. This zodiac savaged in the sky. Anyone who has … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, Literature, New authors, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads
Tagged Absurdism, alchemy, American fiction, American novel, Andre Breton, Angela Carter, archetypal world, Art, Artaud, avant garde, Avant garde literature, Bestiary, de sade, deep zoo, dream logic, Dreams, Erzsebet Bathory, experimental fiction, fiction, Gaston Bachelard, Gertrude Stein, gnosticism, Helene Cixous, Italo Calvino, Jeanette Winterson, Jorge Luis Borges, Language poetry, Lautreamont, Lewis Carroll, Literature, Magic, Magic Realism, novel, Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda, poetry, Rikki Ducornet, silling, small press, Surrealism, Sylvia Plath, symbolism. Porcupine's Quill, The Cult of Seizure, The Fan Maker's Inquisition, The Fountains of Neptune, William Blake, Wordsworth, writing, Zotl
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