William Blake

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…

Aug 23 •

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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…

Jul 28 •

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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…

Jun 13 •

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…

Apr 23 •

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…

Dec 3, 2024 •

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

Nov 28, 2024 •

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…

Nov 28, 2024 •

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…

Sep 22, 2024 •

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…

Jun 24, 2024 •

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…

May 28, 2024 •

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…

Nov 28, 2023 •

Jerusalem's Peeping Tiger

Ever had the feeling you are being watched?

Jul 24, 2023 •

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