by John Riordan | Jul 19, 2023 | Emanations
The Single Vision and Newton’s Sleep Agricultural scientist Keith Davies writes about his forthcoming book on Blake, science and the imagination. I work as an agricultural scientist at the University of Hertfordshire where I am an Associate Professor. At the end of...
by John Riordan | Jun 27, 2023 | Emanations
Adapting Blake’s Book of Los into a Comic Comic artist and Blake enthusiast David Battersby shares his comic strip version of The Book of Los and reflects on the experience of adapting Blake’s poetry and art. Believe it or not, I did not set out to adapt The Book of...
by John Riordan | Jun 6, 2023 | Emanations
Auguries of Innocence – Looking at Words On Monday 22 May the Blake Society attended Swedenborg House to launch Ruskin Arts Publications’ new visual edition of ‘Auguries of Innocence’, collating Cambridge School of Art graphic design students’...
by John Riordan | Apr 4, 2023 | Emanations
The Innocent Printer Next month Ruskin Arts Publications, supported by The Blake Society, publishes a new visual edition of ‘Auguries of Innocence’. In advance of the launch event on Monday 22 May at Swedenborg House, some reflections by editor and project director...
by John Riordan | Mar 29, 2023 | Emanations
Paradise Restored: Blake’s Lambeth Mosaics Anna Stearman, Programme Manager for the School of Ideas, Richmond and Hillcroft Adult Community College, writes about their current project to restore the mosaics of Blake’s Lambeth. I’m standing in a...
by John Riordan | Mar 25, 2023 | Emanations
Carolyn Cassady’s Painting Here at Golgonooza Towers (the imaginary headquarters of The Blake Society), we recently received a fascinating email from Jami Cassady Ratto, the daughter of Neal and Carolyn Cassady. For those not in the know, Neal Cassady was the...
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,...
