The Bacchae

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Cista Mystica presents Martin Shaw’s new rendition of Euripides’ The Bacchae. This is the second volume from a major body of work Shaw has been creating over the past few years. From the primordial caves of antiquity and up through the pagan imagination and Christian mysticism, Shaw wanders centuries, stories and ideas that reconsecrate our relationship to a living earth.

The figure of Dionysus––who abides within Shaw’s version of Tristan and Isolde––is given full and devastating reign in Euripides’ The Bacchae. Insulted by the denigration of his mother, Dionysus brings hallucinatory consequence on the people of Thebes. We enter a world of feminine power, eruptive nature and hard instruction.

‘Fawnskin, ivy garlands, the deadly wand of fennel, we adore the dream of the pinecone. Wake up dark houses! Your instructor has arrived! All are blessed, all are drunk with luck who submit to the shaky mysteries of the Deep God.’

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Cista Mystica Press. Hardcover.

THE HOUSE OF BEASTS & VINES

The new series from Cista Mystica Press

Volume 2: THE BACCHAE

Praise for Martin Shaw

‘Martin Shaw is the lost Inkling.’

Rod Dreher, author of The Benedict Option

 

‘A true and transformative enchanter.’

Rowan Williams, former archbishop of Canterbury and author of Passions of the Soul

 

‘A Seanchai, an interloper from the medieval.’

The Irish Times

 

‘Radical eloquence.’

Stephen Jenkinson, author of Die Wise

 

‘Piratical brilliance.’

David Abram, author of Becoming Animal

 

‘A consummate mythteller.’

Bill Plotkin, author of Wild Mind

 

‘Fierce courage and audacious wildness.’

Jay Griffiths, author of Wild

 

‘Martin Shaw is that rare teacher whose soul is a harp string strung between the urgency of heartbreak and the joyful ferocity of hope.’

Ariel Burger, author of Witness

 

‘Without exaggeration, the most powerful writer of prose I have read.’

Stephen Harrod Buhner, author of Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm

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