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February 21, 2022
Tristan & Isolde: Valentine’s Day launch
Hundreds of Dr Martin Shaw’s latest book Tristan and Isolde were posted out on February 14th, all personally signed by the author.
This first volume of a new major body of work that Shaw has been creating over the past few years, was officially launched from his writing den on the edge of Dartmoor on Valentine’s Day.
Based largely within the Celtic fringe of Britain, Tristan and Isolde is a dazzling exegesis of love, both disarmingly psy...
February 12, 2022
Sunday Stories: New Substack Audio
A brand new fortnightly audio entitled ‘Sunday Stories’ is to start this week at The House of Beasts & Vines, Martin Shaw’s subscription newsletter.On February 6, the series will kick off with an old, Irish story. Says Martin: “It’s a story with a lot of spook and gnostic information.”
Over the coming months, these audio recordings, which will be available only to paid subscribers, will come direct from Martin’s desk, down by the river, o...
Storyteller Martin Shaw on his retelling of one of the greatest Irish myths
Dartington Arts School catch up with storyteller and Poetics of Imagination lecturer Dr Martin Shaw ahead of his retelling of the classic Irish myth The Pursuit of Dermot and Grainne at Dartington.
A princess with wolf blood in her veins chooses love over protocol and a kingdom erupts. This electrifying tale is a hinge between the end of the pagan age and the beginning of the Christian. Thrilling, funny, heartrending, and complex, we are flung headlong into the exhilaration of an ancient story, ...
January 24, 2022
The Voyage of Brendan: Substack sets sail
The first section of The Voyage of Brendan is now published on Dr Martin Shaw’s subscription newsletter – The House of Beasts & Vines.
A free taster is available, but for the cost of a London pint (around £5), subscribers will get exclusive access to this first essay, along with everything in the vault as it builds up.
Says Martin: “I’m delighted to start The House of Beasts & Vines with a story that is causing a stir in m...
January 14, 2022
The House of Beasts & Vines – Substack launch
A brand new subscription newsletter has just been launched by Dr Martin Shaw – The House of Beasts & Vines. There will be regular free tasters, but for just $7 per month (around £5), subscribers will get exclusive access to new material and everything in the vault as it builds up.The newsletter will be published on the platform Substack, with fortnightly offerings from Martin, including fresh essays and audio recordings.
It promises to be...
January 13, 2022
A Glimpse of the Library: Martin Shaw’s 2021 Reads
Martin was recently asked to share a handful of the books he was reading in 2021. For any of us book lovers contemplating what to delve in to for the coming year, here’s a glimpse of the reading pile…
“The Norton Anthology crackles and bangs with word-magic, devastating on occasion. Submission by Houllebecq is a prophetic tale for middle-aged professorial types getting lost in the passions of the world. She Who Is lovingly and dynamically places Sophia back in her rightful place within Christi...
January 8, 2022
Tristan & Isolde, launching February 2022
Cista Mystica is delighted to announce the release of a new series of books, starting February 2022 with Martin Shaw’s version of Tristan and Isolde. This is the first volume from a major body of work Shaw has been working on over the past few years. From the primordial caves of antiquity and up through the pagan imagination and Christian mysticism, Shaw wanders centuries, stories and ideas that reconsecrate our relationship to a living ea...
January 3, 2022
The Hidden Country
New Year message from Dr Martin Shaw:
Joe Strummer once told me not to lose a sense of the heroic. Not in some overbearing, strutting, macho manner, but in a quieter, more vocational register. That certain beautiful things needed defending, and that itself was an organising principle in the scattergun chaos of these times. That you figured out what you stood for. You set free a little morality but held back on the judgement.
I’m not someone that peddles in despair or stirs up disorder and claims...
December 18, 2021
Scatterlings – The Guardian Top 10 Books About Human Consciousness
Scatterlings lands at No.2 on Charles Foster’s top ten books about human consciousness for The Guardian. Read the article.
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Indie Shaman Smoke Hole Review
“Smoke Hole is a powerful, beautiful book, written for these strange times.” Indie Shaman magazine review of Smoke Hole.
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