The Blake Society
The Blake Society was founded In 1985 and champions the agency of William Blake in our culture. The Society commissioned a stone to be placed on William Blake’s unmarked grave in Bunhill Fields and is planning to create a memorial for Catherine Blake. It holds regular meetings (online and in real locations), organises Blakean events and publishes the journal, VALA.
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Latest Events
Blake200
2027 will mark the 200th anniversary of William Blake’s death. We’d like that year to be filled with events, exhibitions, publications and performances of all kinds. As well as organising our own events, and supporting the work of galleries and publishers, we will be creating an online resource which acts as a listing of events, worldwide…
Blake and the Angels – poem by Richard Hemmings
Under a canopy of trees
stands a man arrested, transfixed;
sharp eyes intense under stout hat.
He hears whispering,
sliding sounds;
floating, transient voices…
Mike Westbrook, a master interpreter of Blake’s Songs
Mike Westbrook (OBE), patron of the Blake Society and one of the most distinguished figures in British jazz, died on April 11. His wide-ranging body of work leaves a legacy marked by experimentation and a long-standing dialogue with William Blake’s imaginative universe. Born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, in 1936, into a household…