The Fall and William Blake: Before the Moon Falls
The Fall’s Before the Moon Falls, W.B., Jerusalem and creating a system of your own
Read MorePosted by Admin | Mar 28, 2021 | Music, Poetry, Video, William Blake
The Fall’s Before the Moon Falls, W.B., Jerusalem and creating a system of your own
Read MorePosted by Admin | Jan 2, 2021 | Surrealism
Images from Serge Arnoux’s le sexaphysique du texte, 1981.
Read MoreSacred to Harpocrates were first fruits of vegetables, lentils, and, above all, the peach tree. His mother was Isis, of course, and we may note that in the Valentinian Pleroma, the primal Mother, the First Thought of the incomprehensible Bythos, is called Sig, ‘silence.’ As the Nag Hammadi text Eugnostos the Blessed relates: “Sophia, his consort, who was called ‘Silence,’ because in reflecting without a word she perfected her Greatness.”
Read MorePosted by Admin | Dec 7, 2020 | History / Politics
Although Blake’s knowledge of industry was uncertain, his vision of it was not. It is an astonishing vision — Jacob Bronowski on Blake and Industry, and Blake on Jerusalem and Liberty.
Read MorePosted by Admin | Nov 28, 2020 | Image, Poetry, William Blake
To celebrate Blake’s birthday, here is one of his illustrations for Milton’s L’Allegro, along with the poem itself, which seems suited to the mood fo the day.
Read MorePosted by Admin | Oct 24, 2020 | History / Politics
Blake Bloc, conceived by Poets, Artists and Photographers and the banner designed by Artist Matthew Couper, brings back visionary and poetic anarchism to the conventional march of protest. Last seen with Blake’s influence, through Ginsberg, on sixties anti-war demonstrations and incorporating the once-proud trade union and suffragette banners of the nineteenth century. Bearing William Blake’s images and his immortal words — ‘Opposition is True Friendship’ — this banner isn’t for the bin afterwards with the pile of placards ! It’s a work of art as much as a protest in the Blakean tradition of William Morris elevating socialist ideals.
Read MorePosted by Admin | Oct 23, 2020 | History / Politics
The Irish Independent Left conducted an interview with the historian Peter Linebaugh about his book, Red Round, Globe Hot, Burning, which discusses Blake at several points and makes some excellent observations about him, Thomas Spence, and others, and their relevance to our times.
Read MorePosted by Admin | Oct 12, 2020 | History / Politics, Video, William Blake
Iain Sinclair explores the historical background to William Blake’s radical writings. Filmed on the South Bank of the River Thames, Vauxhall, London.
Read MorePosted by Admin | Oct 5, 2020 | Essay, William Blake
A chapter from Ben Watson’s book, Blake in Cambridge. Ben Watson: Blake in Cambridge...
Read MorePosted by Admin | Oct 1, 2020 | Art, Book, Essay, History / Politics, Poetry, Surrealism
The Assassin includes excerpts from all the Unkant publications released since we started out in 2011. There are also 100s of pages of scores, photographs, poems, paintings and images, essays, comics, reviews, notices and manifestos from the AMM, its friends and supporters.
Read MoreIn this incendiary slice of under-the-radar British social history we meet everyone from Ronnie Corbett to a Broadmoor inmate whose index offence was the subject of a D‑Notice. Robert Dellar’s anti-authoritarian and take-no-prisoners spirit of mischief makes it possible for readers of every persuasion to find something to offend their sensibilities.
Simon Morris (Ceramic Hobs)
Blake in Cambridge was written after reading William Blake’s visionary epic Milton during extended bouts of childcare in Coram’s Fields in the summer of 2010.
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