by John Riordan | Jul 22, 2024 | Emanations
Sacred Visions: Blake and First Nations Peoples As part of St James’s Piccadilly’s Changing Our Minds initiative, Diane Pacitti explores the similarities between the visions of indigenous peoples and William Blake. He is such a familiar figure. That ancient,...
by John Riordan | Apr 23, 2024 | Emanations
Printing Blake in Houston Trustee of the Blake Society John Riordan writes about his experience printing with the replica Blake press at Rice University, Houston. Earlier this month I had the great privilege of heading to Houston (my first time in Texas) and...
by John Riordan | Mar 5, 2024 | Emanations
In Memory of Morris Eaves Trustees and friends of The Blake Society pay tribute to the late, great Morris Eaves. Morris Eaves was one of the most influential Blake scholars in the post-war period, both in terms of his original contributions to knowledge, but also...
by John Riordan | Mar 4, 2024 | Emanations
Open Letter to The Guardian An open letter to The Guardian in response to Jonathan Jones’ review of William Blake’s Universe at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Dear Editor, We at The Blake Society are inspired by William Blake but we don’t live in the...
by John Riordan | Jan 25, 2024 | Emanations
Bringing Catherine Out of the Shadows For as long as I have been enamored with Blake’s work, I have held the view that Catherine was far more involved in the creative process than was generally known. Over the many decades that I taught Blake’s illuminated poetry to...
by John Riordan | Jan 4, 2024 | Emanations
William Blake: Visionary Impressions of the exhibition at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, by Hugo Larman. Now on show at the Getty Center in Los Angeles until 14 January 2024, William Blake: Visionary brings together a wealth of Blake’s prints and paintings from Tate...
by John Riordan | Dec 17, 2023 | Emanations
by John Riordan | Nov 22, 2023 | Emanations
VALA #4: ‘Eternity is in love with the productions of time’ Issue 4 of VALA, the journal of The Blake Society, is published on 28 November 2023 as a free download from our website. There will be an online launch the following day, Wednesday 29 November at 7.30 PM, to...
by John Riordan | Sep 18, 2023 | Emanations
Mosaics and ‘Minute Particulars’ On 11 September The Blake Society was delighted to attend the unveiling of the restored Blake Mosaics, based on pages from Songs of Innocence and Of Experience, at Surbiton Station. The mosaics were originally created by...
by John Riordan | Aug 22, 2023 | Emanations
Blake’s Job: Adventures in Becoming Jason Wright introduces his new book, which analyses Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job and shows their relevance in clinical psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. I am a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist; prior to this, I worked in...
