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Martin Shaw
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By:
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Martin Shaw
Bardskull is the record of three journeys made by Martin Shaw, the celebrated storyteller and interpreter of myth, in the year before he turned 50. It is unlike anything he has written before. This is not a book about myth or narrative: Rather, it is a sequence of incantations, a series of battles. Each of the three journeys sees Shaw walk alone into a Dartmoor forest and wait. What arrive are stories–fragments of myth that he has carried within him for decades: the deep history of Dartmoor itself; the lives of distant family members; Arthurian legend; and tales from India, Persia, Lapland, the Caucasus and Siberia. But these stories and their tellers don’t arrive as the bearers of solace or easy wisdom. As with all quests, Shaw is entering a domain of traps and tests.
Bardskull can be listened to as a fable, as memoir, as auto-fiction, or as an attempt to undomesticate myth. It is a magnificent, unclassifiable work of the imagination.
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Shaw is fantastic
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Bardskull
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Wild and woolly!
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This is a non-linear book. There are sections, and there is something of a beginning-middle-end, but you're largely unaware of where you are in time-space as he sucks you into a heady blend of history and myth and fairy tales and personal story. "Autobiography" and "memoir" are too sterile to describe this book.
Martin enters the forest his old self, but he exits a changed man. Reborn might be more apt. Without giving anything away, he experiences something truly wondrous towards the end of his time there.
It is not the easiest book to read or listen to because it is not intended to flow with the structure of a conventional narrative. He states that outright. This book was born out of a genuine change in Martin during his time in the forest, and he succeeds in bringing us into that tumultuous time with minimal editing for the sake of order. This is raw stuff.
If you are interested in myth and fairy tales, in miraculous happenings, and in exceptional storytelling, this is a worthwhile use of a credit. Again, I am biased as a fan of Martin. But this book exceeded my expectations.
A WILD ride into myth, faith, and personal story
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The way that Martin Shaw weaves words is utterly magnificent. He winds words together into a basket to hold the listener and ferry them over to the other side of the river. It is artful, fantastic and brutal.
Spell breaking beauty
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