A celebration of visionary imagination: Stag Cult and Bardskull signed by the author, & limited edition hand-printed Inner Seer book bag.
Stag Cult
A shamanistic bricolage that lifts a lantern to a kind of haunting we can’t quite exorcize, or don’t wish to. In Stag Cult Martin Shaw invites us to adventure with him:
All gnarled up inside us are people, animals and places. We peer into a bog cauldron (a name for the location of preserved bodies in peat) and witness a giant, and within him a young girl and within her a hare and within him a salmon. Through this scrying we locate secret histories.
Bardskull
Bardskull can be read as fable, as memoir, as auto-ficiton or as an attempt to undomesticate myth. It is a magnificent, unclassifiable work of the imagination. The record of three journeys made by Shaw the year before he turned fifty, it is unlike anything he has written before.
Inner Seer Tote (Grey or White)
In the midst of winter, Shaw ventured into a three-day storm to go pilgrimaging on the smallest of the Aran Islands:
“The island of Inis Oirr sounds like Inis Sheer and locals pronounce it Inner-Seer…
On the island I was. Ten days in regular-type time.
But these were strayed-days; a flinty, yellowed type of time
– stretched out for a year or three.”
Limited edition book bag, drawing by Martin Shaw, hand-printed in Devon by Field System gallery on 80% recycled cotton.
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