Martin Shaw records three solitary Dartmoor forest journeys blending memory, myth, Arthurian legend and family fragments in an autofictional sequence of incantations and tests.
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Martin Shaw records three solitary Dartmoor forest journeys blending memory, myth, Arthurian legend and family fragments in an autofictional sequence of incantations and tests.
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Bardskull is the record of three journeys made by Martin Shaw, the celebrated storyteller and interpreter of myth, in the year before he turned fifty. It is unlike anything he has written before. This is not a book about myth or narrative: rather, it is a sequence of incantations, a series of battles. Each of the three journeys sees Shaw walk alone into a Dartmoor forest and wait. What arrive are stories - fragments of myth that he has carried within him for decades: the deep history of Dartmoor...
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Violence & gore
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Metaphorical battles and mythic quest peril; not graphic realism
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Recurring mystical and spiritual quest themes; mythic contemplative practice
Magic & witchcraft
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Literary mythic encounters and incantations, not a fantasy magic system
Occult / demonology
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Wilderness vigils, summoning, incantations; mythic figures that possess the bard
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