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Discussing the idea with reference to accounts of awakening in esoteric literature, as well as contemporary psychological methods, Living Space: Openness and Freedom through Spatial Awareness proposes that a common denominator in both physical and emotional healing is the creation of more perceptual and conscious space and that an easier and more spacious awareness can be achieved by relatively simple changes to the way we pay attention. These ideas have implications for the way we balance body, mind and spirit.
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
185 kr
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This greatly expanded volume combines a revised version of the 2007 text of The Memory of the Drift, Books I-IV (also published by Shearsman Books) with a fifth book, 'A New Walking Age', plus out-takes and abandoned, but related pieces, and prefaces the whole with a long related work, 'Airborne or Still'."The Memory of the Drift is a serial poem, which began as a mixture of automatic writing and collaged text, its shape imposed by severe formal restriction. While compositional strategies have varied during the course of its development, the overall trajectory of the work continued to follow the admittedly approximate diagram I had made at the outset. The process of its making extended far beyond my original estimate, beginning on 17 April 1993 and not reaching a conclusion until 26 October 2017, with a further period of editing beyond that.In this edition, The Memory of the Drift - the 2007 version of the text having been revised and expanded by the inclusion of a fifth book, A New Walking Age - is prefaced by an earlier work, 'Airborne or Still'. I had originally envisaged the two sequences as being reflections of each other, and there continue to be significant links between them, despite the disparity of their scale. In retrospect, it strikes me that the crucial difference between the two derives from my exchanging a typewriter for a computer as my primary instrument of composition. Added to this, as a series of Appendices, is a series of out-takes and drafts, plus the original prologue to the work." -Paul Holman
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
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‘Sussex folk seem ever to have had a leaning towards snaky things.’Sussex Coils and Loops is a work of parafolklore on the great serpents encountered in the land of south-east England. The book describes a series of ritual actions performed between the winter solstice of 2017 and the summer solstice of 2022 at sites with serpent or dragon legends associated with them. We explore hidden woods, secret pools and lonely churches, find clues in stained glass windows, graveyards, fading murals, tattered pamphlets and video games. There are hermits and saints, headless horsemen, mighty oaks and giant puddings. Shrines are constructed, encounters logged. Each generation is seen to have added to the recursive legend, and the sources range from Anglo-Saxon and medieval Latin accounts to contemporary storytellers. All seek to plumb the depthless knucker holes and reveal their great and terrifying wyrms.In Sussex Coils and Loops, Holman deploys a number of strategies to demonstrate and report on these workings. The writing is in turn experimental, documentary, and scholarly. This is unashamedly contemporary landscape magic. Holman resists any characterisation of folklore that privileges a notion of authenticity as inherently conservative. Rather, he sees it as a dynamic and unstable process which is constantly taking on provisional, dare we say, snaky, formsThrough its careful scholarship, field investigations, and experiments with form, Sussex Coils and Loops offers a variety of entry points into this living tradition, honouring its unruly, indefatigable nature, and curious to see where it might go next.