THE WOMAN OF DEER-BONES, LIGHTNING AND ASHES

THE BARDIC SECRET AND THE OLD STORIES

SCHEDULE 2008

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To book Martin or for further details please e-mail stalkingtherebelsoul@tiscali.co.uk

JANUARY-editing and completing THE RED KING AND THE WITCH: Darkness and Longing in the Myth World, a short collection of essays.

THIS IS NOW AVAILABLE ON CD FOR £10 INCLUDING POSTING. SEND CHEQUES PAYABLE TO MARTIN SHAW TO:
TREGONNING HOUSE,27 EASTERN ROAD, ASHBURTON, DEVON, TQ13 7AP

FEBUARY-Recording of accompanying CD.

MARCH- The River of Sparks and Wings, A series of workshops and evening performances with New York Poet Jay Leeming in Ashburton, Devon and Stamford, Linconshire.

SPECIAL EVENT!!!
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Friday March 28th, The Black Fox and the Glass Mountain: a Night of Myth and Poetry, with Martin Shaw, Jay Leeming and Chris Salisbury.
Methodist Church, Fore St (high st), Totnes, 7:30 pm £5. email
stalkingtherebelsoul@tiscali.co.uk to reserve seating.
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March 29th/30th ,weekend workshop £120, Ashburton and evening show with Jay Leeming at same venue.

APRIL- 2nd April-Storytelling/reading with Jay Leeming,Tallington nr Stamford.
Invitation only

-April 17th-23rd, Feathers from the Crow of Longing and Desire, workshops/evenings in Ithaca, Trumansburg and New York

-April 24th-27th,USA East Coast, The Culture of Wildness, Workshops Block Island (special weekend event also featuring Jay Leeming and the Frantzich Brothers). http://www.bipoetryproject.com/


MAY- USA ,The Bones of Initiation, Workshops with Mythologist and author Daniel Deardorff. Details to come http://www.mythsinger.com/

The Mythology of Leadership, with theatre director Matthew Burton, The Strategic Leadership programme, Templeton College, Oxford University

JUNE- SPECIAL EVENT ##

The Bardic Secret and the Old Stories

Robin Williamson and Martin Shaw.

A rare, intimate opportunity to explore the role of Longing in the old stories. From tales of Finn Mac Cool to the whirling dervishes of Sufi Turkey. Not to be missed.
£ 45 1-5 saturday June 21st. Ashburton Devon.


UK workshops and retreats tbc #


JULY- July 25th/3rd August, The King and Queen Must Wed the Land, Snowdonia Vison Quest retreat.

AUGUST- The Culture of Wildness Conference-Dartmoor UK, with featured teachers Daniel Deardorff, Timothy Young, Thomas Smith and Judith Kate Friedman, Dates to be announced, details to come.

27th/31st August-Rites-of-Passage symposium, Eschwege Institute, Gemany.
With Chris Wilton and Roger Duncan.

## The following two events feature the first UK appearance of ROBERT BLY in over half a decade, and the very first readings from his latest book 'MY SENTENCE WAS A THOUSAND YEARS OF JOY'. Million selling author of 'Iron John' and 'The Sibling Society', Americas greatest living poet and winner of the National Book award, this is a very rare opportunity to enjoy time with this cultural firebrand. Expect fireworks in the soul. Book now. http://www.robertbly.com/

SEPTEMBER- 4/6/7th September: The West Country Storytelling Festival, Dartington Estate, Devon,performing alongside Robert Bly, Daniel Deardorff, Robin Williamson, Ben Haggarty and Spindle Wayfarer amongst others. Expect workshops, performances and talks on story, myth and the soul, under canvas and in ancient buildings. http://www.weststoryfest.co.uk/
Weekend single ticket £70 book at info@weststoryfest.co.uk

(Sat) 13th September: Hiding in a Drop Of Water: Robert Bly will be reading from his recent book, MY SENTENCE WAS A THOUSAND YEARS OF JOY, and also including recent translations of Hafez. St. James Chuch, Piccadilly. Details to be added. £17.50 stalkingtherebelsoul@tiscali.co.uk

Sep 26/28th-Deep Story, Wild Earth-Wildwise weekend, Dartmoor. http://www.wildwise.co.uk/

Finding Albion: Celtic Story and Landscape- A seven day intensive held in Devon and organised by Imagine Adventures. http://imagine-adventures.com/

Sep 30th-October 5th-The Minnesota Mens Conference, Sturgeon Lake, Minn, US.
Teaching alongside Malidome Some, Robert Bly, Miguel Rivera, Doug von Koss

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OCTOBER- Launch of something new. Details to come.

NOVEMBER-As above.

DECEMBER-As above.

Shaw Bio

"Lightning Tree " evokes Robert Graves and the Crow poems of Ted Hughes-it is a combination of practical knowledge, imaginative insight and passionate storytelling that gives Shaw's book its persuasiveness and power. At times incantatory, at times novelistic and poetic, he writes as someone who has been to these places, undergone these trials and tested himself at the extremes of lived experience."
JOHN DANVERS Author of 'Picturing Mind:Paradox, Indeterminancy and Consciousness in Art and Poetry'

Martin Shaw is a mythologist, writer and teacher. An international speaker, he is also a visiting lecturer on the Strategic Leadership programme at Templeton College, Oxford. He is author of 'A Branch From The Lightning Tree: Wilderness, Myth, and the Life Not yet Lived.'
(Avail 2008)

Shaw has been involved with wilderness rites-of-passage for over a decade. He served a five year apprenticeship as well as living under canvas for four years, studying tribal practice and myth.He is specifically interested in the heritage of the'Seanchai'- Celtic storytellers focused on the oral tradition and it's relationship to the land.

In the last year his schedule has included New Mexico, California, Oregon, Minnesota, and Washington state as well as trips in the pipeline to Ireland,Germany and South Africa. He works with anyone from at-risk youth to leaders of industry, facilitating a dialogue between culture and wildness.

Several times a year he runs extended retreats in Snowdonia, Wales, which involve a four day and night fast, completely alone, at the foot of 'Caer Idris'-the mountain beloved of Arthurian myth. He is also available for talks, workshops, storytelling, retreats, and conferences. He believes that rites-of-passage,mythology and the poetic imagination are vital tools for todays ecological and sustainable concerns.

NEW POST: Martin has teamed up with West End theatre director Matthew Burton to present a series of workshops and seminars entitled 'The Mythology of Leadership'-asking the question: What constitutes authenticity as a leader? How does ancient story present grounded, focused, rousing, leaders? And how does both grief and solitude play a part in that evolution? This promises a radical overhaul of the conventional idea of the 'hero' and 'high achiever' into a much more complex process.

Essential Reading

• Daniel Deardorff ‘The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture, and Psyche’ White Cloud Press 2004,
• James P. Lenfestey'A Cartload of Scrolls: 100 poems in the manner of T'ang Dynasty poet Han-Shan, Holy Cow! Press, 2007
• Keith Thomas ‘Religion and the Decline of Magic’ Penguin University 1971,
• Robert Moore, 'Facing the Dragon: Confronting Personal and Spiritual Grandiosity' Chiron Publications, 2003
• Sean Maher 'The Road To God Knows Where: The Travelling Irish' 1972 Talbot Press
• Elizabeth Sutherland 'Ravens and the Black Rain: Highland Second Sight and the Prophecies of the Brahan Seer' Constable 1985
• Lewis Hyde 'Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art' Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 1996
• Angus Fraser 'The Gypsies' Blackwell 1992
• Robert Bly 'My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy' Harper Collins 2005
• 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,
• Peter Avery 'The Collected Lyrics of Hafiz of Shiraz' (trans) Archetype 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,
  
• Jennifer Ferraro with Latif Bolat ‘Quarreling with God: Mystic Rebel Poems of the Dervishes of Turkey’ White Cloud Press 2007,
  
• Robert Bly ‘Talking All Morning’ University of Michegan Press 1980,
• Robert Bly ‘American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity’ Harper Perennial 1990,
• Jeremiah Curtin ‘Myths and Folk-lore of Ireland’ Weathervane Books 1889,
  
• Robert Aitken and David Stendl-Rast ‘The Ground We Share: Everyday Practice, Buddhist and Christian’ Shambala 1996,
• 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 Lenfesty ‘Han Shan Is The Cure For Warts’ Red Dragonfly Press 2006,
• Fran Quinn ‘A Horse of Blue Ink’ Blue Sofa Press 2005,
• Thomas 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.

A tiny handful to be speculated at, rebuffed, and frequently added to.