The Big Idea

The Wonderful World of Walking Stewart

Shaking Feet with Mr Home

Lionel Britton, Lost Genius Recovered

Plato & the Musicians

The Work of Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Husserl, Gadda, Crowley & T.E. Lawrence

Postmodernist Punch-Up

Poems, Fictions and Letters

Abraxas Unbound presents a veritable magic theatre of talent, with powerful, leading

contributions from Colin Wilson on William Blake, T.E. Lawrence, Edmund Husserl,

Phenenomenology and the Big Idea – a Molotov cocktail of consciousness raising, visionary

madness and existential analysis. Furthermore there are three important essays

by Adam Daly on the Italian novelist, Gadda, on the lost genius of the 1930s,

Lionel Britton,and on ‘Walking Stewart’, friend of Thomas de Quincey,

keeper of the keys and walker extraordinaire. Two outstanding musical contributions,

from Gary Lachman, on ‘Plato and the Musicians’, and Euan Tait on his friendship with

the composer, Howard Ferguson. Antoni Diller’s provides an arresting summation of the career

of Stuart Holroyd, critic and scholar, and the philosopher, John Shand, supplies a supple,

precise appraisal of Colin Wilson’s philosophy. Author, biographer and editor of Wormwood,

Mark Valentine, outlines the career and fiction of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, a languishing giant if

ever there was. For fiction, we have an outstanding story by prizewinner author, Roger Morris,

about a strange city of the imagination, and an extract from Tony Lamb’s new

novel ‘Secession’ possibly the most significant contribution to ‘fungal utopianism’ ever.

Poetry features the talents of Alan Kent, David Parry, Bill Mycock and Ann Alexander.

Numerous reviews of fascinating new biographies by the editor, Paul Newman,

keep one abreast of recent developments.