by John Riordan | Feb 21, 2023 | Emanations
Los’s Light and the Swedenborg Window A Creative Connections post by artist Andrea McLean. The Frontispiece of William Blake’s illuminated book Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion shows a luminous symbol. The concentric disk of light can be seen simply as a...
by John Riordan | Feb 16, 2023 | Emanations
William Blake’s Phantom Face To accompany her talk at the Wellcome Collection, Chair of the Blake Society, Sibylle Erle, dims the lights and examines Blake’s macabre and mysterious Ghost of a Flea. William Blake was never the eccentric loner that his early biographers...
by John Riordan | Jan 27, 2023 | Emanations
Printed VALA for Members (let’s try this again!) Apologies for the delay. We’ve fixed the glitch, removed the gremlin and persuaded the Spectre to play ball. SO, once again… if you’re a member of the Blake Society and you’d like to...
by John Riordan | Dec 23, 2022 | Emanations
Blake’s Nativity Stephen Pritchard reflects on Blake’s treatment of the Christmas story and offers a poetic response of his own. The deep of winter came; What time the secret child, Descended thro’ the orient gates of the eternal day: War ceas’d,...
by John Riordan | Dec 11, 2022 | Emanations
Blake’s font William Blake was baptised on Sunday 11 December 1757, 265 years ago. John Riordan wrote the following poem and read it at the online launch of VALA issue 3. The Grinling Gibbons font you were Baptised in is formed into a marble tree. I like...
by John Riordan | Nov 28, 2022 | Emanations
Happy Birthday William Blake! and VALA 3 Today we launch the third issue of our journal, VALA. You can download it as a free pdf here. We, Sibylle Erle, John Riordan and Jason Whittaker, started on our journey about a year ago. Last November we decided to tackle yet...
