The Seafarer

by Kevin Crossley-Holland images by Inger Lawrance prepared from the Anglo Saxon by Kevin Crossley-Holland Ever since the tenth century, versions of The Seafarer have been committed to books, though it was no doubt part of the tradition of poems recited aloud and...

The Old Stile Press . . . the next ten years

by Frances McDowall Nancy Campbell Nicolas McDowall images by Clive Hicks-Jenkins a Bibliography 2000-2010 The first 250 copies come with a small ‘present’ loosely inserted. This takes the form of a printed jeu d’esprit being Welcome to Spring by Gavin Douglas...

The Girl from the Sea

by George Mackay Brown images by Michael Onken A Play for voices by George Mackay Brown Eighteen years ago we celebrated the seventieth birthday of George Mackay Brown by publishing In the Margins of a Shakespeare. It has long been out of print – but we are now able,...

The Dream Song of Olaf Åsteson

images by Maryclare Foa a fragment of a Norwegian folk epic c.400 A.D translated by Pauline Wehrle This hauntingly powerful text played an important role in lectures given by Dr Rudolf Steiner. It uses rich symbolism to depict a spiritual leader's journey of...

Secret Commonwealth

by Robert Kirk images by Angela Lemaire or A Treatyse displayeing the Chiefe Curiosities as they are in Use among the diverse of the People of Scotland to this Day by Mr Robert Kirk, Minister at Aberfoill 1691 Stare into a pool -- the wind ruffles its surface, a cloud...