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Naturae Natura by Joshua Alan Sturgill
The Light That Can Never Be Put Out:
For we be come of earth and sea,
Of heaven and hell and of faerie,
Of high and low and each degree,
Both king and clown in this meinie,
So shall we hear with mirth and glee
Missam pro Anglia.
February 9th is the Feast of St. Teilo of Llandaff.
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Many Changes of the World by Joshua Alan Sturgill
The War Song of the Welsh: ‘The sword of the Bards of the Isle of Britain is drawn against wrong and cruelty and oppression, against abomination and defilement, against treachery and abounding wickedness.’ The sword flashed in the light of the dying sun, and the assembly said that a strong sword was drawn against the oppressors.
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History by Joshua Alan Sturgill
The Ceaseless Bugle Call: It shall resound till it call up the spirits of the heroes to fight in the vanguard of our battle, till it summon King Arthur and all his chivalry forth from their magic sleep in Avalon; that they may strike one final shattering blow for the Isle of Britain against the heathen horde.
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You and These Elephants by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Rio Grande Theophany by Latayne C. Scott
Dale Nelson makes a welcome return with Trench’s Study of Words.
In Time of War: And we went further, to a place where raw recruits are being fiercely hammered and pounded into “Kitchener’s army.” But wherever we went and there were soldiers, we found the Y. M. C. A. there doing its very best for these soldiers, and putting good cheer, both of the body and the spirit, into them.
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Peak District Park by Benjamin Rozonoyer, author of The Beaver Pond
Timaeus, A Few Closing Remarks Off Record by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Let Us Sing of War: And I think that the poet—the true laureate bard—will see at last this was as a great and fiery rose, a rose palpating with flame. Dante in Paradise saw such a flower; this was for the praise of heaven. But the red rose of war is for the purging of earth.
The softcover version of Arthur Machen’s The Terror: Critical Edition is now available for purchase.
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You Will Not Be by Joshua Alan Sturgill
The Last Dread Sentence: And then those awful words have to be uttered—I will not say with what anguish behind them—and, as I have said, I never knew before that the terrible and the grotesque could so meet together; nay, that the sheer grimness of that black and grey, and scarlet and white should fitly symbolise the unnatural horror of murder.
The Living Law by Jesse Keith Butler has received an excellent review in The European Conservative.
A Talk for Twelfth Night by Arthur Machen
A Strand Meditation: To me it appears that August Strindberg was far more a man of science than an artist; his anxiety was not to discover the eternal truth which is the same thing as beauty, but to register observations and discoveries in psychology, sociology, sensations, schoolrooms, hospitals, and backyards.
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Everything A Nascent Something New
by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Two festive essays from
Arthur Machen:
A classic essay for the Nativity season: Christmas Mumming by Arthur Machen
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You May Enter by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Jesse Keith Butler, the author of The Living Law, has won the prestigious ESU Formal Verse Contest.
With the King’s Poulterer: I didn’t understand in the least how he did it. I tried once or twice to spot the losers; there was a bird with a jaundiced skin, and another with a broken patch on it. But they both passed with honours. I said, “How do you judge?”
The Beaver Pond
“The lines in this book may be fragile and fleeting, like all of our songs, and yet the gift is in their sounding not their hoarding, their making and their praising. Ben, like the meadow lark, is faithful with the rich heritage of the melodies, re-membering them into the fellowship of the field, he can’t help but sing from every stem and wire.”
Phillip Neal Tippin
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Two Translations of Osip Mandelstam by Benjamin Rozonoyer
Joy Refracted by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Odd Volumes: He explained that he was a Royalist, and that he has just had a call from a Government official, who suggested that Lisbon was a hot place and that a sea voyage might be beneficial. The Royalist took the hint, having in mind the fate of a friend of his who did not take the hint, and met with a violent death in consequence.
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