William Blake: England’s Radical Prophet and Visionary

Posted by Andy Wilson | Nov 25, 2021 | Podcast, The Traveller in the Evening, Video | 1 |

William Blake: England’s Radical Prophet and Visionary

A talk given by Andy WIlson for the Blake Society at St Luke’s Community Centre, Islington, London, on 24th Nov 2021, for the residents around Bunhill Fields, where Blake is buried

Video of the Talk

Presentation Slides

This is the full presentation, not all of which was used during the talk

About The Author

Andy Wilson

Andy Wilson lived in Seaham Harbour, Peterlee, Hartlepool, Kings Lynn, Coventry, Torpoint, Eastleigh, Lee-on-Solent, Portland, Weymouth, Loughborough, York and Liverpool before putting down anchor in Hackney, London. On leaving King Henry VIII school in Coventry, he served as an Engineering Artificer in the Royal Navy, then studied at the Co-operative College, and York and Middlesex Universities. He has worked as a political full-timer, a lecturer in the Workers Educational Association, as a computer programmer, and finally as an engineering manager, CEO and a Director of a number of companies. With Ben Watson / Out to Lunch, he founded the Association of Musical Marxists (AMM). He has written books on the German group Faust, the Romanian Spectral composers Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram ('Cosmic Orgasm'), and on the Syrian Revolution ('Khiyana'). He also writes poetry and created a book of lo-fi psychedelic illustrations to Blake ('The Brilliant New Hercules'). Andy has been a trustee of The Blake Society, and his main interests lie with Blake, radical theology and politics, and Surrealism.

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Michael E Davies on 25 November 2021 at 10:48 pm

Thank you for your erudition and kindness dear Andy Your presentation on Blake was an absolute delight 🙏
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