About Martin Shaw
Martin Shaw is a writer, storyteller and teacher. His most recent book Bardskull was book of the day in The Guardian, and described as “rich and transgressive” in the Sunday Times. Stag Cult was a number one bestseller at the London Review of Books. He founded the Oral Tradition and Mythic Life courses at Stanford University and was Reader in Poetics at Dartington Art School. Director of the Westcountry School of Myth, he is a wilderness rites of passage guide, spending four years living in a tent on a succession of English hills. Rowan Williams describes him as “a true and transformative enchanter.”
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About School of Myth
An unrivalled immersion into myth, wilderness and soul, the School of Myth is rooted in the belief that myth has something vital to say about the connection and condition of both our lives and the earth. Raising up a Culture of Wildness is the task.
A learning community located in Dartmoor in the United Kingdom, the school is focused on a five-weekend programme over the span of a year. Each weekend entails the telling of myth or fairy tale, response and study, accompanied by time and reflection in wilderness.
Learn more at schoolofmyth.com.
About Cista Mystica
Cista Mystica Press was established to publish the work and ideas of Dr. Martin Shaw, and a select group of authors. Its concerns range from mythopoetics, romanticism, philosophy, magic, folklore to initiatory encounters with wilderness. The press believes that eros can be the bedfellow of rigour, and that all these areas have something essential to contribute to the state of our times.
The press makes books, audio, and merch available for purchase in the Cista Mystica Press shop.