Tag: The Blake Society
Vala #3 and Blake’s Visionary Animism
by Andy Wilson | Jan 31, 2023 | The Traveller in the Evening, William Blake | 0 |
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
Read MoreMike Westbrook, Phil Minton & The Lo-Fi Improvised Music Ensemble with Sue Lynch: Intimations of a Future for Blake’s Music
by Andy Wilson | Jan 5, 2023 | Music, Review, Surrealism, The Traveller in the Evening, William Blake | 0 |
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.
Read MoreIain Sinclair: Blake’s Mental Traveller and The Gold Machine, a Talk to the Blake Society
by Andy Wilson | Sep 25, 2021 | Review, The Traveller in the Evening | 0 |
In Sept 2021, Iain Sinclair gave an improvised talk to the Blake Society about how Blake’s poem, The Mental Traveller, became the map and model for a lifetime of journeys and pilgrimage quests. The Mental Traveller was an awakening, to be experienced but not yet understood. The poem returned at various points in the years that followed, until it was acknowledged as the secret code for Sinclair’s most recent book, The Gold Machine, a late-life expedition to one of the sources of the Amazon, in the footsteps of his great-grandfather.
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Lee Valley Inscape: PhotographyMay 24, 2023 | The Traveller in the Evening
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Brian Catling (28 Oct 1948 – 27. Sep 2022)Oct 8, 2022 | Art
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Michael Tencer: AffirmismsJul 28, 2021 | Book
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Serge Arnoux: le sexaphysique du texteJan 2, 2021 | Surrealism
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Bronowski on Blake and IndustryDec 7, 2020 | History / Politics
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Ken Fox: Autoeroticapocalypticum (Exract)Nov 26, 2020 | Poetry