Author Archives: jananson

Arran Stibbe – Ecolinguistics – Review

Posted on July 7, 2019

Arran Stibbe is the founder of the International Ecolinguistics Association. On this subject of ecolinguistics he, quite literally, wrote the book. The subject, and this superb book, is all about applying the tools of linguistics to the service of a … Continue reading →

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Merlin and the Making of Stonehenge

Posted on June 20, 2019

Originally posted on Stonehenge Stone Circle News and Information:
The archaeologists have their ideas about how and why Stonehenge was built. The annals of legend have another story, one that involves Merlin the magician plus the uncle and father of…

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Alida Gersie’s Earthtales (review)

Posted on February 6, 2019

Alida Gersie’s celebrated Earthtales is, in large part, a collection of traditional tales that have to do with the earth and its creatures. Most are from cultures that have been endangered by the imperialism of Western modernity, which by the … Continue reading →

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Kevin Crossley-Holland’s The Magic Lands

Posted on January 20, 2019

  The Magic Lands is the paperback title of Kevin Crossley-Holland’s British Folk Tales. It’s a better title in that the collection covers Irish tales as well as ones from England, Scotland, and Wales. The Irish stories do tend to … Continue reading →

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Cecil Collins and the Holy Fool

Posted on January 10, 2019

I have a hazy memory, from my early twenties, of attending an exhibition of work by William Blake and also Cecil Collins at the Tate. It can’t have been an exhibition of major works, because what I remember are works … Continue reading →

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In the Chinks of the World Machine

Posted on August 22, 2018

In the Chinks of the World Machine provides a committed but very readable picture of the achievements of serious science fiction by women at the time of its publication in 1988. Sarah Lefanu was in a privileged position to write … Continue reading →

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Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination

Posted on August 10, 2018

The monochrome cover of Dark Horizons is very dark, and its subtitle is Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination, but the agenda of editors Raffaella Baccolini and Tom Moylan in this collection of essays is as much about utopia as … Continue reading →

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