'Working nightly into his Christian visioning excavated something in my own heart. A powerful, almost pagan Jesus announced himself. Not reassuring, troubling not easy, as if I was standing at the doorway of a new life.' - Martin Shaw on editing the new collection of John Moriarty's writings, for writing.ie Martin Shaw: On Editing A Hut at the Edge of the Village
Resurgence & Ecologist magazine review of Letters to the Earth (HarperCollins, 2020). Martin Shaw 'startles us into re-examining the stories we tell ourselves'.
Dougald Hine (The Dark Mountain Project) book review, Riders on the Wolf, of Martin Shaw's Wolferland.
"A bushy-bearded British storyteller and an American poet collaborate to make modern versions of a clutch of thrilling stories touched by the supernatural along with lyric poems of lament, complaint, and romance." Ray Olson, Booklist review of Cinderbiter: Celtic Poems by Martin Shaw and Tony Hoagland from Graywolf Press.
Publishers Weekly review of Cinderbiter: Celtic Poems by Martin Shaw and Tony Hoagland from Graywolf Press.
Martin Shaw sits down with Kathleen Lee to talk about his work with Tony Hoagland on Cinderbiter, a collection of Celtic poems. (Aug 2020).
Martin Shaw on Growing Up Christian with a Pagan Underbelly https://lithub.com/on-celtic-storytelling-from-the-bardic-to-the-mythic/
Emergence Magazine podcast. Martin Shaw on initiation, agency, and the move into the mythical. (June 2020). https://bit.ly/courting-the-wild-twin
Gambling with the Knuckle Bones of Wolves – The Mythic Masculine interview with Martin Shaw. Martin Shaw in conversation with Ian MacKenzie on the bardic role of the mythteller, why we are in the underworld (but don’t know it yet), how this time of coronavirus might be an invitation into our collective initiation, and more. (April 2020).
In pondering whether the coronavirus serves as a rite of initiation, Martin Shaw offers five reflections on the agency that rests within opportunity, the alchemy of experience, and the beautiful learning that is being called forth from this moment over at Emergence Magazine. https://emergencemagazine.org/story/is-this-an-initiation/