NEW POETRY

Between Two Lives by Joshua Alan Sturgill

Villanelle of the Elect by Jesse Keith Butler

A new poem by Butler, The Life of the Lake, has been published in the pages of the Cloud Lake Literary. Congratulations!

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

Mr. Wells’ Radium Bomb: “The radium bomb is the god from the machine of Mr. Wells’s new story-essay. Physical science makes a great leap, radioactive forces become its servants. … But, frankly, it seems to me that the whole book and all its theories are vitiated by what I venture to consider Mr. Wells’s radical misconception of human happiness, what it is, and how it is gained.”

BOOK UPDATE: A Reader of Curious Books by Arthur Machen is back in stock.

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS

NEW POETRY

Those Who Came Before by Joshua Alan Sturgill

Snow Was General by Benjamin Rozonoyer

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

Concerning Mr. Wells: This week, Machen reviews Wells’ book An Englishman Looks At The World. As you may guess, the two thinkers look at the world quite differently.

Book Announcements

BOOK UPDATE

A Reader of Curious Books by Arthur Machen is currently out-of-stock. A new impression has been ordered and should be available soon.

A Secret Language by Arthur Machen: Only six copies remain of this limited edition chapbook.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: 

POETIC CATECHISM:
A Lecture by Joshua Alan Sturgill on Becoming Orthodox Slowly and Completely.

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

My Wandering Week, Part IV: Sunlight! It poured upon us, and made the pleasant land all golden, and glittered on the ripples of the rushing brooks as the steeps of the Quantocks closed in upon us. The farmers allowed that they could do with a drop of rain, but their eyes twinkled and their hearts were evidently set to cheerfulness.

NEW POETRY

Telling Time by Joshua Alan Sturgill

The Kingdom of Heaven by Phillip Neal Tippin

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

My Wandering Week, Part II … I saw the walls again at the time of the afterglow. Their creams and greys and ambers were all flushed, and were as rose-coloured samite; the figures of the Apostles and Saints, the Kings and the Martyrs that stand in their stories in the marvellous west front shone in clear glory. And then the dusk fell, and the great church became a vague height beneath the dim appearance of the evening stars.

The festival will feature Father Gabriel Rochelle. For More information, visit the Eighth Day Institute.

NEW POETRY

Give Everything Away by Joshua Alan Sturgill

The Labor by Mark Mosley

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

My Wandering Week, Part I: It was not to be a holiday in the usual sense of the word. Holidays are fixed things, foreordained, and prearranged. You know where you are going, why you are going, and, very likely, what dishes the landlady cooks to best advantage. A holiday is an affair of the known; my trip–or whatever you like to call it–was to be an adventure of the unknown and unsurmised. Philosophically considered, the holiday-maker is a creature of the logical understanding; but I was to sally forth and get me gone to the region of Anywhere, a creature of the pure imagination. …

This week, we celebrate the feast of St. David of Wales:

A Meditation by Fr. Gabriel Rochelle

Visitations

NEW POETRY

Physics of Insight by Joshua Alan Sturgill

Profile (The County Road in January) by Phillip Neal Tippin

MACHEN STUDIES

This March 3^rd is the 159^th anniversary of the birth of Arthur Machen. To celebrate this and the centenary year of the publication of Far Off Things, we present the conclusion of our multiyear serialization of the book. Now, in one place, the entire volume can be read for free.

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

For the month of March, we will be traveling alongside the Apostle of Wonder as he journeys about England and Wales. We begin with A Week-End in North Wales.

NEW POETRY

Water, As A Witness by Joshua Alan Sturgill

Homeric Musings by Benjamin Rozonoyer

The Weekly Machen

Tanks As They Really Are: There is a wickedness upon the earth greater than any that the age of the monsters knew; and so the monsters have returned to be the ministers of vengeance.  Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out …

NEW POETRY

Song of the Pacific Boatman by Joshua Alan Sturgill

Unsaid Words by Claire Brandenburg

Recently, Deacon Anthony (Gaelan) Gilbert, the author of One Is Found First, appeared on an episode of the Amon Sûl podcast to discuss a chapter from The Hobbit.

The Weekly Machen

The New Beer: I do not know that I am altogether sorry to have failed in the Quest of the Unholy Bottle! It was reported that the Liquor Control Board, ever tireless in its efforts to promote the joys and pleasures of the lieges had invented a new beer. It was not like common beer. It did not cheer. It did not inebriate. It simply created a sensation of fulness. …

NEW POETRY

Room of Exits by Joshua Alan Sturgill

Jacob and Esau by Thomas Barton

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

God and the War: Thus I fail to see that the “religious difficulties aroused by the present condition of the world” are legitimate difficulties; that is, if it is to be argued that we have suddenly been confronted by an entirely new set of facts, by fresh evidence, which must be met successfully, if we are going to hold to our belief in God.

NEW POETRY

Standard of Living by Joshua Alan Sturgill

Winter Musings by Benjamin Rozonoyer

The Weekly Machen

The Joy of Life: I am not become a prophet of the gospel of work for work’s sake – or for money’s sake either. I shall never be a good American, nor believe that hustling is in itself a virtue and that money, the result of hustling, is the supreme end of life. We live well when we fulfill the command that Rabelais made the motto of his great book – “Vivez joyeux,” live joyously. Joy is the end of life: everything that leads to that end is good, everything that turns a man from it is evil.  …

Stock Update

A Reader of Curious Books by Arthur Machen is back in stock.