SWEDENBORG ARCHIVE SERIES
Title: Concerning an idea about place: Swedenborg's Summerhouse
Author: Stephen McNeilly
Drawing on a long-standing engagement with Swedenborg’s visionary writing, this beautifully designed pocketbook offers a lyrical exploration of Swedenborg's summerhouse and a philosophical meditation on the nature of place, memory. . .
Read More. . . PurchaseTitle: INTRODUCING SWEDENBORG
Author: Peter Ackroyd
By award-winning author and biographer PETER ACKROYD this brief pocket biography is the perfect introduction to Swedenborg and the first in a series of accessible introductory pocket books. SERIES EDITOR: Stephen. . .
Read More. . . PurchaseTitle: ON THE CONJUGIAL ANGEL
Author: A S Byatt
Editor: Stephen McNeilly
From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession: A Romance (1990), On The Conjugial Angel is the latest book in the Swedenborg Society’s Archive Series. A S Byatt, alongside a series of readings from her. . .
Read More. . . PurchaseTitle: IN CELEBRATION OF TOMAS TRANSTRÖMER
Author: Homero Aridjis | Kjell Espmark | Ulrika Funered | Monica Lauritzen | David Lister | Robin Robertson | Monica Tranströmer | Tomas Tranströmer | Per Wåstberg
Editor: Stephen McNeilly
Tomas Tranströmer (1931-2015) was one of Sweden’s most universally respected literary exports, his poetry being translated into over 60 different languages and drawing the admiration of international contemporaries (many of. . .
Read More. . . PurchaseTitle: AN EVENING OF DREAMS
Author: Homero Aridjis | Eva Hoffman | Darian Leader | Tom McCarthy | Selina Mills | Introduction by Chloe Aridjis
Editor: Stephen McNeilly
Originating in a memorable and discursive evening held at Swedenborg House in October 2015, and inspired by Swedenborg’s private journal of dreams written between 1743-4, An Evening of Dreams brings together six. . .
Read More. . . PurchaseTitle: NEW JERUSALEM: the good city and the good society
Author: Ken Worpole
Editor: Stephen McNeilly
Utopian thinking as to how people might live together more harmoniously—the dream of the perfect city, the New Jerusalem—has been revived in different forms and at different times, from early. . .
Read More. . . PurchaseTitle: AN ANGEL SPEAKS: selected poems
Author: Homero Aridjis
Editor: Stephen McNeilly
Foreword: J M G Le Clézio
HOMERO ARIDJIS is widely regarded as Mexico’s greatest living poet. His work has been translated into numerous languages and he has received critical praise from artists and writers such as. . .
Read More. . . PurchaseTitle: SWIMMING TO HEAVEN: The Lost Rivers of London
Author: Iain Sinclair
Editor: Stephen McNeilly
Beautifully written and drawing upon a range of literary, cultural and geographic references, Sinclair follows in the path of the ‘lost’ rivers of London and examines their influence on the. . .
Read More. . . PurchaseTitle: SEVERAL CLOUDS COLLIDING
Author: Iain Sinclair | Brian Catling
Editor: Stephen McNeilly
Part research document, part lecture transcript, part diary entry and part archive intervention, Several Clouds Colliding reconstructs and reflects on the extraordinary events surrounding an exhibition and performance by Iain. . .
Read More. . . PurchaseTitle: BLAKE’S LONDON
Author: Iain Sinclair
Editor: Stephen McNeilly
What was William Blake’s relation with London? And how did this relation shape his poetic visions? In this small and specially designed volume, Iain Sinclair takes the reader on a. . .
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