Mike Westbrook, Phil Minton & The Lo-Fi Improvised Music Ensemble with Sue Lynch: Intimations of a Future for Blake’s Music
In November 2022, The Mike Westbrook Band and The Lo-Fi Improvised Music Ensemble performed settings of Blake’s texts that raise questions about how Blake has previously been made to sing.
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Poems and Podcasts
Videos and podcasts of various discussions. Updated regularly.
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Blake in Beulah: A Review of John Higgs’s ‘William Blake vs The World’
John Higgs’s new book promises a contemporary take on the works of William Blake, making them relevant to a modern audience generally, and to the counterculture in particular. So, how well does it live up to its promise?
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Lee Valley Inscape: Photography
Photographs taken in and around the Lee Valley, 2022-2023 by Andy Wilson. Free to download.
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The KLF and Mumufication
These are the slides I used in a presentation I gave about the KLF and the People’s Pyramid. The talk eventually became an essay I posted elsewhere on the blog.
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Kali, Chaos Magic and the KLF: On Black holes and the Rites of Mumufication
This is based on notes from a talk I’m preparing for the Living Well Dying Well Foundation on the rite of MuMufication, the building of the People’s Pyramid, and the background to it all in Chaos Magic and Discordianism. But first I note the special relevance of the countercultural Hindu goddess, Kali, and her significance as a trickster avatar of death.
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Vala #3 and Blake’s Visionary Animism
Vala is the journal of The Blake Society. Issue #3 focuses on the Blake and Nature and features an article by Andy Wilson on Ecology and Blake’s Visionary Animism
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Escaping the 21st Century: A Boy Scout’s Guide to Modern Literature
An alternative to those quizzes about how many dead Victorians you’ve read in the pursuit of cultural capital, a canonical education and the admiration of loved ones. Instead, here’s a list of 100 books that shaped me.
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Video Interview with Andy Wilson re. Jerusalem: Blake, Parry and the Fight for Englishness
The patriotic frenzy around Brexit and the death of Elizabeth Mountbatten-Windsor offers an opportunity to reappraise Blake’s song Jerusalem and the nationalistic impulse so many find in it. Here Conor Kostick interviews Andy Wilson about his recent review of Jason Whittaker’s new book on Blake’s ‘Jerusalem’.
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No Place Called Home: Jason Whittaker on William Blake’s Jerusalem and ‘Progressive’ Patriotism
The patriotic frenzy around Brexit and the death of Elizabeth Mountbatten-Windsor offers an opportunity to reappraise Blake’s song Jerusalem and the nationalistic impulse so many find in it. Jason Whittaker’s new book on Blake’s ‘Jerusalem’ is reviewed.
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Brian Catling (28 Oct 1948 – 27. Sep 2022)
excerpt here
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Thoughts on Blake, Blade Runner and Animal Solidarity
In researching for the recent Blake Society meeting on Blake and Blade Runner I discovered aspects of the film and Philip K Dick’s original story that radically change our understanding of the story and bring it more closely into line with Blake’s core vision.
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