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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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Andy Wilson
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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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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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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Ithell Colquhoun: Mantic Stains, Sex & Surrealism
The otherwise splendid Ithell Colquhoun show at the Tate St Ives underplays the affinity between the occult and Surrealist sides to Colquhoun's…
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Andy Wilson
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Just Say 'Non': Nazism, Narcissism and Boyd Rice
Published 15 years ago, this review of Boyd Rice's peurile book is interesting despite the fact that the people who supported him have since gone…
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Andy Wilson
Phil Smith's Eco-Eerie & Occupy's Haunted Generation
Listen now | A new book from Phil Smith offers a chance to consider Mark Fisher's hauntological legacy and the politics of life lived without a future…
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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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Fear of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Not Stockhausen
A review of David Stubbs, Fear of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Don’t Get Stockhausen? Why do people flock to see abstract art but run screaming from…
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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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Andy Wilson
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Gabriel Kahane, America and the Book of Job
A friend asked me to comment on the mention of the Book of Job is a recent song, Gabriel Kahane's Empire Liquor Mart, from The Apartment Sessions. It…
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Andy Wilson
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