TO CONTACT MARTIN SHAW FOR BOOKINGS AND GENERAL INFORMATION PLEASE E-MAIL

stalkingtherebelsoul@tiscali.co.uk

or ring UK 01364 653723

To read his weekly blog please go to

http://www.theschoolofmyth.blogspot.com/

EVENTS 2009

2009

JANUARY-

Fri Jan 9th to Sun 11th: Second gathering of Westcountry School

'COYOTE MAN AND THE FOX WOMAN'

please refer to http://www.schoolofmyth.com/ for all gathering details.

Fri 16th to Sun 18th-

'METAPHOR AS KEY TO THE IMAGINATION: HOW MYTH OPENS THE WRITTEN WORD'

Creative writing weekend, Geneva, Switzerland.

Fri 30th/Sat 31st: WINTER STORYTELLING FESTIVAL, Steiner School, Devon.
Performances and workshop.

FEBRUARY

Fri 27th/Sat 28th : The Westcountry School of Myth and story presents:
'TALES OF THE TUATHA DE DANANN', Day and evening masterclass in Myth and poetry with ROBIN WILLIAMSON, Chief Bard of the Order of Bards, Ovates and druids. Devon £75. To book please ring 01364 653723.

MARCH

Fri 6th to Sun 8th: Third gathering of the Westcountry School year programme

'ROAD OF SOLITUDE, ROAD OF VOICE' http://www.schoolofmyth.com/

Sat 21st.

Benefit event for The Westcountry Storytelling Festival.

Afternoon workshop on 'Ivan and the Grey Wolf , poetry and storytelling, plus evening bonaza-dancing, music, pirates, all kinds of things. Totnes Methodist Church Hall, 10am-10pm. Ticket price TBC

Fri 27th to Sun 29th

FOREST HILL FESTIVAL: A celebration of the Arts and Nature

Martin will be telling the old Russian story ' Ivan and the Grey Wolf' , leading work out in nature and talking about the ideas in his new book: 'A Branch From The Lightning Tree: Ecstatic Myth and the Grace in Wildness'. For programme and booking, e-mail

rhonakirkwood@blueyonder.co.uk

APRIL

Research and writing

MAY

Fri 8th to Sun 10th

'THE FIERY HORSES OF THE TONGUE'

Part Four of the year programme: 'Parzival', the world of the Archetypes, making the Celtic Sweat House at the crane-skin edge of the world.

http://www.schoolofmyth.com/

Sat 23rd. 'A Branch From The Lightning Tree' US .Book launch Martin will be reading from the book and telling myths and exploring ideas from it. Guests Daniel Deardorff and Judith Kate-Friedman. Port Townsend, Washington State. venue to be confimed. E-mail daniel@mythsinger.org for ticket details.

Sun 24th. 'THE WYRD AND THE WYLD: The Path of Destiny and the Soul of the World' A day workshop on myth, initiation and the inspired soul with Martin and mythologist Daniel Deardorff. Port Townsend, Washington State. e-mail daniel@mythsinger.org for ticket details.

Sat 30th to Sunday June 7th.

THE GREAT MOTHER CONFERENCE, Camp Kieve, Nobleboro, Maine, USA

Martin is teaching alongside James Hillman, Robert Bly, Coleman Barks, Gioia Timpanelli and many others at this seminal festival of the Arts.

Tues June 23rd

UK Book launch for 'A Branch from The Lightning Tree'

The Rill Centre, Nr. Buckfastleigh, Devon, 7.30 pm FREE

www.rillcentre.co.uk for directions

Fri June 26th

Storytelling on Dartmoor for youth-wilderness camp.With author Caspar Walsh and associated crew.

JULY

Fri 10th to Sun 12th

THE HOPE OF THE WEST

Gathering five of the year programme.

Fri 31st to Sun August 8th

THE KING AND QUEEN MUST WED THE LAND

Vision Quest, facilitated by Martin. Dartmoor, UK. £500

Please ring 01364 653723 for details.

SEPTEMBER

US Trip-mid-west and coasts. venues TBC. Martin will be leading workshops and lectures based around his new book; 'A BRANCH FROM THE LIGHTNING TREE: Ecstatic Myth and the Grace in Wildness'

Sep 8-13th MINNESOTA MENS CONFERENCE

Martin, Daniel Deardorff and Robert Bly himself will be collaborating on the story of IRON JOHN. This story-Bly's book of which sold several million copies- spawned a worldiwde movement and hasn't been told for at least 15 years by Bly. Join us for a very rare event. Details of other teachers to come.

www.hiddenwine.com

Late September-First weekend of the year programme;

LEAVING THE VILLAGE, FINDING THE FOREST

OCTOBER

Friday 16th to Sat 18th Oct, FINDING THE BONES OF THE GREEN MAN:Myth and Rites-of-Passage, Eschwege Institute, Germany.

Tues 27th and Tues 3rd Nov, Ashridge Conference centre, outside London.

THE MYTHOLOGY OF LEADERSHIP, with theatre Director Matthew Burton.

NOVEMBER

Friday 7th November, The Creaky Autumn House of Smoky Myth and Lamplit Poetics.

A night of poetry and myth with award winning New York Poet Jay Leeming and Martin Shaw, held at the School's HQ, Tregonning House, in Ashburton, Devon. Recommended donation £5. Ring 01364 653723 to ensure a place, seating limited.

THE SCHOOL 'RATTLE' BAG

• Wolfram Von Eschenbach 'Parsival', Penguin Classics, 1980
• Daniel Deardorff ‘The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture, and Psyche’ White Cloud Press, 2004,
• Chretien De Troyes 'Arthurian Romances', Penguin Classics, 1991
• Erich Neumann 'The Origins and History of Consciousness', Bollingen Series, 1954
• Keith Thomas ‘Religion and the Decline of Magic’ Penguin University 1971,
• Homer 'The Odyssey' Penguin Classics 1946
• 'The Mabinogion', Charlotte Guest translation, Dover Thift Publications, 1906
• Marie-Louise von Franz 'The Feminine in Fairy Tales', Shambhala, (this iss) 2001.
• Hafez 'The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door', Trans Robert Bly and Leonard Lewisohn, Harper Collins 2008
• W.B. Yeats 'Yeat's Poems', Edit. A. Norman Jeffares, Papermac,1989
• Joseph Campbell 'The Way of the Animal Powers/Seeded Earth Vols, Harper and Row, 1980's
• Thomas R.Smith 'Keeping the Star', New Rivers Press, 1988 (visionary, rock'n'roll and edgy -poetry needed as much in 2008 as 88.)
• Marion Woodman and Elinor Dickson 'Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciouness' Shambahla, 1996
• Robert Moore 'Facing the Dragon: Confronting Personal and Spiritual Grandiosity' Chiron Publications, 2003
• Mahdi, Foster and Little 'Betwixt and Between: Patterns of Masculine and Feminine Initiation', Open Court, 1987 (anything with Steven Foster and Meredith Little is worth reading)
• Lewis Hyde 'Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art' Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 1996
• Robert Bly 'My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy' Harper Collins 2005
• Clarissa Pinkola Estes 'Women who Run with the Wolves' Rider 1992
• Paul Tillich 'The Courage To Be' Yale University Press 1952
• Giles Deleauze and Felix Guattari 'A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia' University of Minnesota Press 1987
• Ted Hughes 'The Hawk in the Rain' Faber 1957,
• Marie Heaney ‘Over Nine Waves: A Book of Irish Legends’ Faber and Faber 1994,
• Gary Snyder ‘The Real Work: Interviews and Talks, 1964-1979,
• Gary Snyder 'Back on the Fire: Essays' Shoemaker Hoard 2007,
• Pablo Neruda and Cesar Vallejo ‘Selected Poems’ trans. Robert Bly, John Knoepfle, and James Wright, Beacon Press 1971,
• Sean Kane ‘Wisdom of the Mythtellers’ Broadview Press 1994,
• Robert Graves ‘The White Goddess’ Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1966
• Jay Leeming ‘Dynamite on a China Plate’ Backwaters Press 2006,
• Fredrico de Laguna and Dale DeArmond ‘Tales From the Dena: Indian Stories From the Tanana, Koyukuk, and Yukon Rivers’ University of Washington Press 1995,
• Timothy Young ‘Building in Deeper Water’ Ally Press 2003,
• Michael Taussig ‘Shamanism, Colonialism, and The Wild Man’ University of Chicago Press 1987,
• Robert Bly ‘Talking All Morning’ University of Michegan Press 1980, (essential reading)
• Robert Bly ‘American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity’ Harper Perennial 1990,
• Jeremiah Curtin ‘Myths and Folk-lore of Ireland’ Weathervane Books 1889,
• Steven Foster 'We Who Have Gone Before: Memory and an Old Wilderness Midwife' Lost Borders Press 2002
• Steven Foster and Meredith Little'The Four Shields: The Initiatory Seasons of Human Nature' Lost Borders Press 1998
• Jim Lenfestey ‘Han Shan Is The Cure For Warts’ Red Dragonfly Press 2006,
• Fran Quinn ‘A Horse of Blue Ink’ Blue Sofa Press 2005,
• Thomas R. Smith ‘The Dark Indigo Current’ Holy Cow Press 2000,
• Joan Halifax ‘The Fruitful Darkness: Reconnecting with the Body of the Earth’ Harper San Francisco 1993,
• Robin Williamson ‘The Wise and Foolish Toungue’ Chronicle Books 1989.

Tip of the iceberg, but plenty of leads. Look out especially for the poets Jay Leeming, Thomas R. Smith and Timothy Young amongst the above- all visiting teachers at the school. They represent a new opening of poets in the US with a great feel for the mythic that informs their work in subtle not overt strokes. Deardorff's 'The Other Within' is be reissued through Random House this Autumn with new introduction. Helluva read-he makes you work for your rapture thats for sure. I love these books, it makes me happy just to type their names out.