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Into the Marvellous—The Tour

Dates for the first UK leg of the Into the Marvellous book tour were announced this week following an overwhelming response from folks from afar afield as Australia, Alaska and California. A deluge of invitations initially came in unbidden after a few promotional evenings were announced, sparking an adventurous plan to travel far and wide with The Night Wages. Martin put out a request on social media for interesting venues and the floodgates opened. The first tour will take in Brighton, London, Devon and Cornwall in February

Into the Marvellous—The Tourdesirae2019-03-15T10:31:20+00:00

Mud and Antler Bone: An interview with Martin Shaw

Emergence Magazine, Mud and Antler Bone: An interview with Martin Shaw. (Recorded 2018). https://bit.ly/mud-and-antler-bone

Mud and Antler Bone: An interview with Martin Shawdesirae2021-12-13T12:07:37+00:00

Small Gods

We hear it everywhere these days. Time for a new story. Some enthusiastic sweep of narrative that becomes, overnight, the myth of our times. A container for all this ecological trouble, this peak-oil business, this malaise of numbness that seems to shroud even the most privileged. A new story. Just the one. That simple. Painless. Everything solved. Lovely and neat. So, here’s my first moment of rashness: I suggest the stories we need turned up, right on time, about five thousand years ago. But they’re not

Small Godsdesirae2020-12-10T19:54:18+00:00

The Soul and the Star

An Interview with Martin Shaw WHAT IS YOUR WORK ABOUT? An on-going nostos—a homecoming—to the heart, I suppose. There’s an old image in folktales of people that bury their heart under a tree so they can acquire more power without the distraction of conscience. I don’t wish that for myself alone, or as a father, or for the wider culture at this point. There is an inheritance, which the West has largely turned its back on, that I am very interested in. We glimpse it sometimes in

The Soul and the Stardesirae2020-12-10T19:58:23+00:00

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Into the Marvellous—The Tour

Mud and Antler Bone: An interview with Martin Shaw

Small Gods

The Soul and the Star