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Rum, Sodomy & the Lash: 50 Years Since Joining the Mob
I'm taking a temporary personal turn for this post. Bear with me! Back to Blake &c soon: 50 years ago this week, I set off from my home in Coventry…
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Blake, Castoriadis and the Radical Imagination
Listen now | The Traveller in the Evening talks to Castoriadis scholar and activist, Stephen Hastings-King, about Blake and Castoriadis's radical…
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Andy Wilson
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Stephen Hastings-King
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Timothy Morton: Black Opals of Gurgling Negation
Listen now | After months of frantic Signalling, Timothy Morton and Andy get it together to spill the beans on Trump, the Great Chain of Being, Babylon…
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Timothy Morton
Captain, my Captain! Thoughts on Blake's Death Day
As we approach the 200ᵗʰ anniversay of Blake's death (12th Aug 1827), whar can we conclude about his legacy and impact today? A starter pack...
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Andy Wilson
Evergreen Review: Dispatches from the Literary Underground
Pat Thomas has produced a compilation of work from the glory days of the US literary and counterculture journal, Evergreen Review. How did they manage…
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Awake! Mark Vernon's Imaginary in the Balance
Listen Now: A discussion with Mark Vernon about his book on William Blake and the imagination fuelled an agitated exchange about the relevance of…
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Andy Wilson
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Mark Vernon
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The Light That Burns So Very Bright: A Playlist For MAGA Erasure
The victims of US racism had revealed to them the truth of their society. In refining that knowledge into music, they built some of the great human and…
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William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love: An Immersion
Philip Hoare's latest book sees Blake inspire an army of admirers from Wilde and Joyce through to David Bowie. Minor characters like W. G. Robertson and…
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Andy Wilson
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RBE 40 Years Later: Ruach Demos
After a pause from 1982 to 2025, recent technology has made me interested again in the kind of electronica inspired equally by Lee Perry and the…
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A Short History of The Traveller in the Evening
Listen now | Conor grills The Traveller in the Evening (Andy Wilson). What leads a person to try to combine Surrealism, William Blake and Christian…
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Conor Kostick
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Neither Muggletonian nor Moravian but Blakean: A Critique of Keri Davies
Keri Davies is a Blake scholar, determined to dismiss Blake's radical, dissenting posture, turning him instead into a small businessman of orthodox…
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Brian Collier
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Whatever Happened to the Revolutionary Left #3: From Workerism to Broke, 1945-1985 (Part Three: Collapse of the SWP and Decline of the Far…
Listen now (81 mins) | The final episode in a series about the rise and fall of the revolutionary left, Andy and John detail the collapse of the far…
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john game
Blake Resources
Bring Me My Bow of Burning Gold
Tim Morton's writings are straight out of Blake
The Complete Poetry and Prose of WIlliam Blake
David Erdman's collection of Blake's work.
The Blake Archive
A superb resource collecting Blake's texts and images
Hell's Printing Press
The Blog of the Blake Archive and Blake Quarterly
The Blake Society
Blake-related events and information
Blake: An Illustrated Quaterly
Blake Journal
Global Blake
An international network of scholars working on William Blake
Zoamorphosis
The Reception of William Blake
General
Allen Ginsberg Project
A home to Ginsbergians, Allenophiles and Ginsbergers
Bureau of Lost Culture
Broadcasting Rare Countercultural Stories and Oral Testimonies
UbuWeb
Web of Ubu
Thomas Merton Centre
Home of the Thomas Merton Society

William Blake

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1:08:31
Blake, Castoriadis and the Radical Imagination
Listen now | The Traveller in the Evening talks to Castoriadis scholar and activist, Stephen Hastings-King, about Blake and Castoriadis's radical…
 • 
Andy Wilson
 and 
Stephen Hastings-King
1
1:14:12
Awake! Mark Vernon's Imaginary in the Balance
Listen Now: A discussion with Mark Vernon about his book on William Blake and the imagination fuelled an agitated exchange about the relevance of…
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Andy Wilson
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Mark Vernon
3
William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love: An Immersion
Philip Hoare's latest book sees Blake inspire an army of admirers from Wilde and Joyce through to David Bowie. Minor characters like W. G. Robertson and…
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Andy Wilson
3
Neither Muggletonian nor Moravian but Blakean: A Critique of Keri Davies
Keri Davies is a Blake scholar, determined to dismiss Blake's radical, dissenting posture, turning him instead into a small businessman of orthodox…
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Brian Collier
4
Dance to Your Nobodaddy: Tríd an bpoll gan bun at Sadler's Wells
Folk musician Sam Amidon and Michael Keegan-Dolan's Teaċ Daṁsa's new piece, inspired by Blake's divine dad-gone-bad, Nobodaddy, tells stories of…
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Andy Wilson
Retipped Arrows of Desire (Vala Redux)
My review of Tim Morton's Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology, from the recently published Vala #5, Journal of The Blake Society
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Andy Wilson
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Vala #5: Blake and God
The latest issue of the Blake Society Journal, Vala, focuses on Blake's relationship to God and religion general. Druids get involved. Download this and…
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Andy Wilson
Ginsberg's Blake Inscriptions for Miles: Where are the Revolutionary Freaks When You Need Them?
At an event earlier this year marking Ginsberg's 1960'2 visits to London, I noticed the inscriptions, dedications and doodles Ginsberg had left in Barry…
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Chaoskampf, Complexity and the Twisting Snake in William Blake's Illustrations to the Book of Job
Blake's Job has long been recognised as a hymn to an apocalyptic transformation of the self, but there are hints too of of acceptance of the role of…
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Andy Wilson
Retipped Arrows of Desire: Timothy Morton's Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology (Review)
In their new book, Timothy Morton enlists Blake to help evolve a Christian ecology where the biosphere is the body of Christ, Hell is the physical…
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
A review of the Complicité production, based on the 'eco-thriller' by Olga Tokarczuk, at The Barbican Theatre, London, March 2023. First published in…
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Andy Wilson
Jerusalem's Peeping Tiger
Ever had the feeling you are being watched?
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Andy Wilson
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Leaves in the Wind
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Live Theology!
Live Theology!
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