NEW POETRY
Consolations by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Saturday Nights in War Time: This week, we present one of the new additions to the second edition of Dreamt in Fire. Preorder here.
Dale Nelson introduces us to The Silence of Dean Maitland
NEW POETRY
Porch Poem by Joshua Alan Sturgill
In Memory of Our Canadians: So a dying sun may have shone on the waste levels of Flanders when, the smoke of the battle and the poison-clouds had passed away, and the Canadians looked on one another; and looked on their dead.
NEW BOOKS: Preorder before August 1st for discounted rates.
NEW POETRY
Of All The Living by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Our Poster Stamp Competition: Add to the list of the benefited the mystery and art of colour printing; and perhaps the chiefest joys of all will fall to the great tribe, of the collectors, with whom I always sympathise, whom I always envy, though I have never had the patience to collect anything myself.
Previously out-of-print volumes of work by Arthur Machen will return to the Darkly Bright Catalog. We are now accepting preorders for new expanded editions of A Reader of Curious Books & Dreamt in Fire at discounted rates until July 31. Both books will available in softcover and limited hardback editions. Likewise, we are offering a limited edition of Mist and Mystery.
NEW POETRY
Together, God by Joshua Alan Sturgill
An Exploration in Dickens’ Land: Childhood is the age of vision, of real insight; and hence Hazlitt declares truly enough that most men of genius spend their lives in teaching the world what they themselves knew before they were eighteen.
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Who Furrows? Who Follows? By Joshua Alan Sturgill
The Yellow Dwarf via Andrew Lang
The Joy of Eating: But is it not a great marvel? You take a man fainting and disconsolate, and give him meat and drink and he will become eloquent; your beefsteak and Burgundy and coffee and tobacco smoke are returned to you, with good luck, in the shape of high thoughts and wit and poetry.
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Suggested by a Passing Bee by Joshua Alan Sturgill
No. 5: Villette—Dale Nelson explores Machen’s interest in Charlotte Brontë’s final novel.
Thomas Hardy as a Playwright: After passing the calm waters of Poole Harbour, shining in the afternoon sunlight, I began to think of Hardy, and of that mystery of visible nature which I have always thought to be the prime secret of the great master’s work.
Literary Ecstasy: A contemporary review of Machen’s Hieroglyphics
This October, the Eighth Day Institute will be exploring the work of Dorothy L. Sayers at the 9th Annual Inklings Festival. Keynote speaker Lesley-Anne Dyer Williams will speak on the great authoress and her influence. Registration is now open. The Annual Walking Tour is highly recommended.
NEW POETRY
Genesis at Golgotha by Joshua Alan Sturgill
The Chains of Gerasa by Fr. Gabriel Rochelle
The Death of Thomas Hardy’s Old Fiddler: Old Harry was a little apple-cheeked man… The gramophones, he told me, pleased the people better now than the tunes that he could play on his fiddle; for the gramophones played the new tunes, and that was what people liked. And I said to myself: “The Lord have mercy on them!”
NEW POETRY
Can We Escape by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Waiting for the Boat Train: The war has been a crucible of transmutation; the shy man speaks of his son to strangers, because he hopes to see his son restored to him out of the fire, and the strangers answer gently because life and death, joy and sorrow, once obscured by conventions of silence, have now been made clear and evident to every man.
No. 4: The Menace from the Moon: Dale Nelson treats us to a review of a forgotten science fiction novel by Bohun Lynch, Machen’s caricaturist.
Noted Scholar Douglas A. Anderson has published an article on the centenary of The Shining Pyramid by Arthur Machen.
NEW POETRY
Brief As Memory by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Jesse K. Butler has published at the Blue Unicorn.
The Critics and Mr. Henry James’s Style: The late Mr. George Wyndham once said, and said most beautifully and wisely, that there are certain things which, though perceived by the senses, must be effectually received and laid hold on by faith. These things were, I think, the flaming colour of a rose at dawn, the first kiss of the beloved, and the sudden appearance of an army in array of battle. And to these three objects to be apprehended by faith, I think I must add a fourth— the style of Mr. Henry James.
Congratulations to Richard W. Rohlin on his successful Kickstarter campaign. You can still support his Amboria project.
CATALOG UPDATE
A Reader of Curious Books is now out-of-print. This summer, a second edition will be published alongside a new printing of Dreamt in Fire: The Dreadful Ecstasy of Arthur Machen. Both books will include extra material and will be issued in hardcover and paperback formats. For now, Mist and Mystery and The Great Return are still available for purchase.
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It Hasn’t Seen by Joshua Alan Sturgill
In a Kentish Hop Garden: Below me the great green hop sea, dipping and rising with the ground, a splendid spectacle of fertility; and everywhere the dark green of the leaf was flecked with the hanging, yellowing clusters. I have seen no richer sight amongst the vineyards of France.
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