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...
by John Riordan | Nov 7, 2022 | Emanations
Visions, Voices & Emanations! Welcome to our Blake Society Blog and news of a Blake season at St James’s’ Church, Piccadilly. This is our inaugural Emanation! We’ve borrowed ‘Emanation’, that mysterious term so beloved of Blake in his later poems, for the title...
by Julian | Jun 21, 2022 | Emanations
Saint Maud – Review Saint Maud is a taut, psychological horror film from first time director, Rose Glass. It stars Morfydd Clark as the eponymous Maud, an agency nurse who is assigned to care for terminally ill patient, Amanda, a former dancer and hell-raiser...
by Julian | Jun 21, 2022 | Emanations
Divine Images June 21, 2022 Jason Whittaker reveals how speaking with Blake on a daily basis has shaped his own attitudes to art, religion and politics. Considering how powerful Blake has been in my life, it would be tempting to say that he hasalways been there, and...
by Julian | Mar 16, 2022 | Emanations
Billy Blake’s Cab or The Vehicular Form of William Blake March 16, 2022 John Riordan discovered Blake as a teenager and his exploits in illustration and cartooning have been driven by the uncompromising poet and artist ever since. My mum is too modest to take...
