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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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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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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
William Blake's Universe: Blake at the Fitzwilliam
In this new exhibition, Blake is shown alongside Europeans who also turned to spirituality in response to war, revolution and political turbulence.
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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…
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Andy Wilson
No Place Called Home: Jason Whittaker on William Blake’s Jerusalem and Progressive Patriotism (Review)
The patriotic frenzy around Brexit and the death of Elizabeth Windsor offers an opportunity to reappraise Blake’s song Jerusalem and the nationalistic…
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Andy Wilson
Iain Sinclair: Blake’s Mental Traveller and The Gold Machine, a Talk to the Blake Society
In Sept 2021, Iain Sinclair gave a talk to the Blake Society about how Blake’s poem, The Mental Traveller, became the map and model for a lifetime of…
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Andy Wilson
Blake in Beulah: John Higgs's 'William Blake vs the World' (Review)
In 2019 the writer John Higgs published a pamphlet, William Blake Now: Why He Matters More Than Ever, which argued for Blake’s continued relevance. When…
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Blade Runner's Fallen Angels
The film Blade Runner is hugely successful, but what does it all mean? As the makers’ hint, the key is to watch it through the eyes of William Blake and…
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