A festive evening, gifts and last posting dates

                       A Night of Winter Tales This will be an evening of Christmas magic and Arthurian Romance in Devon UK, to include Gawain & The Green Night and other gems of antiquity. The event at Ashburton Arts will be on Friday December 20th from 7.30 to 9.30pm.Tickets are going fast so don't delay. Buy Tickets Here New Limited Collection and Books Gifts Cista Mystica is delighted to present a collaboration with Field System gallery on a brand new limited collection of

A festive evening, gifts and last posting dates2024-11-30T18:35:58+00:00

Festive new arrivals and Christmas posting dates

      Fresh in for the Festive Season  There's still time for those who live overseas to order in time for Christmas, and there's plenty to choose from for festive reading or Christmas gifts in the Cista Mystica shop. Back by popular demand, a limited run of signed editions of Tristan & Isolde has just  landed on the shelves. While one of our perennial favourites, Courting the Wild Twin, is now available in paperback. And we are delighted to present a collaboration with Field System gallery

Festive new arrivals and Christmas posting dates2024-11-26T11:59:01+00:00

Martin Shaw INIS OIRR (Inner Seer) Exhibition

In the middle of last winter Martin Shaw braved a three-day storm to go pilgrimaging on the smallest of the Aran Islands Inis Oirr (Inner Seer). This exhibition, November 7th –27th, is a gathering of drawings, paintings and recordings responding to the adventure. It opens on Thursday November 7th from 6pm at Field System Gallery in Ashburton, Devon, with a private view and a nip of poitín. On Thursday 14th November A Night on the Island is an intimate evening of stories and conversations with Martin, who

Martin Shaw INIS OIRR (Inner Seer) Exhibition2024-11-09T18:37:43+00:00

The Christmas Love Bundle

The Christmas Love Bundle: A signed trio from Dr Martin Shaw   A special trio of love stories, each signed by the author, will mark the festive season at Cista Mystica this year. The Christmas Love Bundle, to include The Night Wages, Tristan & Isolde and the rarely glimpsed The Five Fathoms will make an ideal gift for romantics. Says Martin: "These three unearth my take on both the glories and despairs of Romantic love. They were rather hard-won books to write, but dipping in again I'm

The Christmas Love Bundle2023-11-26T14:42:56+00:00

The Hawk & the Holly: new audio + commentary

Gawain & the Green Knight Brand new audio and commentary An extra special audio telling and commentary of Gawain & the Green Knight has begun on Martin's online newsletter The House of Beasts & Vines, for paid subscribers only. The first of four episodes, which will run fortnightly up to Christmas, is now available, an ideal gift for the festive season at £6 ($7) per month. As well as full access to the latest writings, audio and drawings direct from Martin's desk, subscribers get exclusive access to everything

The Hawk & the Holly: new audio + commentary2022-11-22T13:30:17+00:00

Stag Cult: latest book out now

Stag Cult: Dr Martin Shaw's latest book out now Dr Martin Shaw's latest book Stag Cult, just released on Saturday, is already number one on the London Review Bookshop's best sellers list. Published by Hazel Press, this latest work is described as a 'shamanistic bricolage' that lifts a lantern to a kind of haunting we can’t quite exorcize. Read more from the publisher here. Martin says: "All writers love to see London Review of Books, their book and number one bestseller in the same sentence. "Good cheer and

Stag Cult: latest book out now2022-09-06T12:33:03+00:00

Book news, audio & upcoming events

Dr Martin Shaw: book news, audio and events Cista Mystica has just taken delivery of a new batch of Martin's books Smoke Hole: Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass and Courting the Wild Twin, published by Chelsea Green. All orders for the next three weeks from Cista Mystica (until Monday June 6) will be signed by Martin, who will be talking about Smoke Hole on May 26 when he is interviewed as part of the magazine The Idler's pub-style  'A Drink with the Idler'

Book news, audio & upcoming events2022-05-18T11:08:36+00:00

Martin Shaw in Conversation with Poet Malcolm Guite + New Gilgamesh & Inanna Audio

The latest addition to Martin Shaw's subscription newsletter The House of Beasts & Vines is a freely-available conversation with the poet Malcolm Guite, who recently turned up at Martin's door at the scrag end of a storm with a bottle of Jura in hand. Their 25-minute conversation covers C.S. Lewis, the Gods and the Nuance of Animism, and joins the fortnightly treasury of offerings which includes the audio 'Sunday Stories', recorded direct from Martin's desk, down by the river, and out on the moor. Some free tasters are

Martin Shaw in Conversation with Poet Malcolm Guite + New Gilgamesh & Inanna Audio2022-04-13T16:39:16+00:00

Martin Shaw Reads His Underworld Essay

As both a mythologist and wilderness rites-of-passage guide I am frequently asked to comment on climate change, collapsing stories, and what on earth to say to our kids about the future. I am no kind of pundit, so choose my words sparingly and carefully. What follows is a few thoughts. Climate change isn’t a case to be made, it’s a sound to be heard. From a mythic perspective, seeing is often a form of identifying, but hearing is the locating of a much more personal message. Hearing creates

Martin Shaw Reads His Underworld Essay2022-03-11T15:14:54+00:00

Tristan & Isolde: Valentine’s Day launch

  Hundreds of Dr Martin Shaw's latest book Tristan and Isolde were posted out on February 14th, all personally signed by the author. This first volume of a new major body of work that Shaw has been creating over the past few years, was officially launched from his writing den on the edge of Dartmoor on Valentine's Day. Based largely within the Celtic fringe of Britain, Tristan and Isolde is a dazzling exegesis of love, both disarmingly psychological and profoundly mythological. Shaw’s version heightens the latent Dionysian tensions and

Tristan & Isolde: Valentine’s Day launch2022-02-21T13:24:45+00:00

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