Martin Shaw In the Media
Collected articles and interviews featuring Martin Shaw.
Find information for media enquiries here. See book reviews here.
Martin Shaw In the Media
Collected articles and interviews featuring Martin Shaw.
Find information for media enquiries here. See book reviews here.
Articles
The Age of Bear and Raven – Orion
The Age of Bear and Raven: It’s time to rework our relationship with nature.
Essay by Dr. Martin Shaw for Orion Nature And Culture magazine
Navigating the Mysteries – Emergence Magazine
As we walk our questions into a troubled future, storyteller and mythologist Martin Shaw invites us to subvert today’s voices of certainty and do the hard work of opening to mystery. Listen on the Emergence Magazine Podcast. Essay and narration by Dr. Martin Shaw for Emergence Magazine.
Scatterlings – The Guardian
Scatterlings lands at No.2 on Charles Foster’s top ten books about human consciousness for The Guardian.
Interviews
London Review Bookshop Podcast – Martin Shaw & Claire Armitstead
London Book Review
Martin Shaw & Claire Armitstead: s t a g c u l t
A storyteller, mythologist and poet, Martin Shaw’s latest collection, s t a g c u l t (Hazel Press, 2022) lifts a lantern to a kind of haunting we can’t quite exorcise, or don’t wish to. Shaw was joined in conversation by Claire Armitstead, associate culture editor at the Guardian and presenter of their weekly books podcast.
London Book Review
Martin Shaw & Claire Armitstead: s t a g c u l t
A storyteller, mythologist and poet, Martin Shaw’s latest collection, s t a g c u l t (Hazel Press, 2022) lifts a lantern to a kind of haunting we can’t quite exorcise, or don’t wish to. Shaw was joined in conversation by Claire Armitstead, associate culture editor at the Guardian and presenter of their weekly books podcast.
Mythologist Martin Shaw’s Visionary Conversion
Mythologist Martin Shaw’s Visionary Conversion to Christianity. An interview with Premier Unbelievable? Conversations between Christians and non-Christians, hosted by Justin Brierley.
Mythologist Martin Shaw’s Visionary Conversion to Christianity. An interview with Premier Unbelievable? Conversations between Christians and non-Christians, hosted by Justin Brierley.
Rilke’s Duino Elegies – with Martin Shaw
BBC Radio
Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies, written between 1912 and 1922, are often considered to be one of the cornerstones of European literature in the 20th Century.
Produced in a time of collapse and change, amidst political turmoil and spiritual flux, the poems grapple with what it means to be human, charting the soul’s journey through existential despair and fear and separation (“Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the orders of Angels?”) to moments of revelation and ecstasy (“Praise this world, not the untold world, to the Angel.”)
Rilke is a poet concerned with the task of inhabiting the world – despite its transience and the fact of our mortality – and in the presence of everyday objects, buildings, Things (“Dingen”) he finds his way into a kind of being that exalts in our fleetingness. In the Ninth Elegy he arrives at the phrase, “Perhaps we are here in order to say: house, bridge, fountain, gate, pitcher, fruit-tree, window […]” (In German: “Haus, Brücke, Brunnen, Tor, Krug, Obstbaum, Fenster.”)
A century on from the completion of Rilke’s landmark cycle of poems, this radio hymn takes up the poet’s call to dwell in “the time of the sayable”, with contributions from post-humanist thinker Bayo Akomolafe, archeologist Bettina Bader, German scholar Karen Leeder, and author and storyteller Martin Shaw.
Listen on BBC Sounds: House, Bridge, Fountain, Gate, Pitcher, Fruit-Tree, Window
BBC Radio
Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies, written between 1912 and 1922, are often considered to be one of the cornerstones of European literature in the 20th Century.
Produced in a time of collapse and change, amidst political turmoil and spiritual flux, the poems grapple with what it means to be human, charting the soul’s journey through existential despair and fear and separation (“Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the orders of Angels?”) to moments of revelation and ecstasy (“Praise this world, not the untold world, to the Angel.”)
Rilke is a poet concerned with the task of inhabiting the world – despite its transience and the fact of our mortality – and in the presence of everyday objects, buildings, Things (“Dingen”) he finds his way into a kind of being that exalts in our fleetingness. In the Ninth Elegy he arrives at the phrase, “Perhaps we are here in order to say: house, bridge, fountain, gate, pitcher, fruit-tree, window […]” (In German: “Haus, Brücke, Brunnen, Tor, Krug, Obstbaum, Fenster.”)
A century on from the completion of Rilke’s landmark cycle of poems, this radio hymn takes up the poet’s call to dwell in “the time of the sayable”, with contributions from post-humanist thinker Bayo Akomolafe, archeologist Bettina Bader, German scholar Karen Leeder, and author and storyteller Martin Shaw.
Listen on BBC Sounds: House, Bridge, Fountain, Gate, Pitcher, Fruit-Tree, Window