You can now watch Dr Rebecca Marks' fascinating talk on Blake's lost painting of The Last Judgment at blakesociety.org/product/last...

Feeling inspired (& a little dazed) after a sublime day of global imagining at Oxford's English faculty yesterday, bringing together talks from historians of art, literature, and ideas 🌐 Thank you to all involved!

Our summer issue is out today and free to read for a week. Many thanks to the contributors for their outstanding efforts to record all things Blake. blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl...

A Q&A on the #BlakeBlog with translator Hans-Ulrich Möhring: blog.blakearchive.org/2025/05/02/q...

Photo dump! I took these pics around the store after closing Sat. so all of this is still available 👍 We have LOTS of books on Wm Blake just now + some nice prints; 2 Blind Date packets left, & a bunch of our bargain books are still in the center display. We're here tonight til 5 - hope to see you!

Was William Blake, one of England’s greatest poets, actually Irish? Scholars have long maintained that WB Yeats was being fanciful when he claimed one of England’s greatest poets was in fact Irish. But Philip Hoare’s new book suggests an alternative possibility www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

The spring issue with our annual sales review is now online blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl... and will be free to read for a week or so. Huge 💐 to all our contributors! Cover image: Yale Center for British Art

Absolutely enjoyed the excellent “Apocalypse” exhibition at the BNF. It showed the Book of Revelation’s enduring relevance in a wide range of objects from medieval manuscript to contemporary art. Art by Tacita Dean, Anne Imhof, Kiki Smith, William Blake and so many more. #Paris #Apocalypse

The Blake Cottage Trust is delighted to announce that it has been awarded a £243,954‬ grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to support essential conservation and‬ planning efforts for Blake’s Cottage, in Felpham, the historic Sussex home of visionary poet‬ and artist William Blake.

Our latest issue to become free to read is spring 2020 blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl..., which contains our annual sales feature, plus a review by @luisacale.bsky.social of the 2019-20 @tate.bsky.social exhibition and catalogue. I remember this one as our first issue published during lockdown.

We are pleased to announce that the new co-editor of Blake is Tilar Mazzeo. We also extend our heartfelt thanks to all who applied for the position. Image from the designs for Gray's Poems (Yale Center for British Art, which reopens this weekend!)

These bowls were fashioned by Simon Turner www.instagram.com/simonturners... from a mould he made from Blake’s previous gravestone at Bunhill Fields. "The mould is fired and then used to mould the bowls (otherwise they would read backwards) and then they are fired once, glazed and fired again."

Calling all teachers! 📚 Explore fresh ways to teach Blake, Wordsworth & Romanticism in our free online CPD on 11 March. Join our wonderful panel – Michael Donkor, Iain Sinclair, Helen Mort & Alexander Fairbairn-Dixon – for a lively discussion on radicalism, nature and more: bit.ly/BL-CPD-Roman...

Entre illustrations de Dürer, poèmes manuscrits illustrés par William Blake, enluminures de bibles, psautiers et célèbres toiles... l'exposition sur l'apocalypse de la #BNF à la bibliothèque F. Mitterrand est une belle réussite

Teenage William Blake live-drawing the exhumation of Edward I in Westminster Abbey. As you do (WIP from my Blake graphic novel) #williamblake #comic #graphicnovel #westminsterabbey

It's out ❤️🗺️📍🌎 My book William Blake and the Cartographic Imagination surveys Blake's visionary mapping alongside forerunners, contemporaries, and followers. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

New publication from the Blake Archive: The Ghost of Abel copy C @thehuntington.bsky.social and On Homers Poetry [and] On Virgil copy A @librarycongress.bsky.social: www.blakearchive.org/staticpage/u...

This graphic William Blake biography by @johnnyriordan.bsky.social is a beautiful thing, a real labour of love. More on his website www.johnriordan.co.uk, go see!

The YCBA will have a Blake exhibition from Aug. to Nov.: britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-... There's also Romney at the art gallery, in collaboration with the YCBA, from March to Sept.: britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-... Thanks to our exhibitions editor @luisacale.bsky.social for alerting me.

El próximo domingo voy a estar presentando mi traducción de William Blake en acá no más en el Farol de Saladillo.

Our friends from The William Blake Fellowship are putting their best efforts to save William Blake's home in London. Check it out. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the...

Blake Soc Trustee @johnnyriordan.bsky.social had a fun afternoon yesterday wandering the charter'd streets of London with Joe of @sketchpoetry.bsky.social Listen to the results at open.spotify.com/episode/0h7t...

THE URIZEN CYCLE, Wed 26 February, 7:30 PM (UK time) on zoom. Dr Annise Rogers discusses Blake's central character Urizen, and proposes 'the Urizen Cycle' as a new way of understanding his mythological system. All are welcome. More info and free registration at blakesociety.org/product/uriz...

MOTION AGREED: The London Assembly calls for the former home of William Blake to become a cultural and educational hub and visitor centre, boosting the local and London economy.

Our latest issue to emerge from the paywall and become free to read is vol. 53, no. 3 (winter 2019-20). blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl... Coincidentally, "Holy Thursday" will also feature in our upcoming spring 2025 issue; maybe I can recycle the cover and no one will notice?

What did The Strand look like in 1823, through the eyes of William Blake at Fountain Court, or Mary Shelley at the church of St Clement's? @afoggyplace.bsky.social walks us through the buskers, crowds, and pub meetings for radicals in her fascinating article: 19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1...

CELJ is conducting a survey on peer review in humanities publishing, focusing on #DEI principles. We’re inviting editors, authors, publishers, and reviewers to share ideas—specific questions or broader topics like peer review types, editorial labor, and more—by Feb 1, 2025. Fill out the form ⬇️

Devastated by the loss of scholar Prof Kathryn S. Freeman. I never met her in person, but she was an encouraging, insightful, & kind scholar to work with. She took a chance on me as a contributor to her upcoming Blake book. I'll never forget her generosity & warmth. www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...

Creator of Nightmares has just been delivered to my door. I am looking forward to reading and reviewing it for @blakequarterly.bsky.social

Free tickets now available for my Cambridge lecture on William Blake on Feb 21st. All welcome! www.tickettailor.com/events/poetr...

Bookpost! After years of searching, I managed to grab this at an amazing bargain price! Such an important book when studying 'The Four Zoas' 'The Four Zoas' by William Blake A Photographic Facsimile of the Manuscript with Commentary on the Illuminations' by Tramontano Magno and Erdman! #Blake

It has a cover 😱 and soon to be an Actual Thing... books.google.co.uk/books/about/...

We published our winter issue today. It will be free to read for a week or so. blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl... The cover image is a side view of "Albion Rose" on display at William Blake's Universe at the Fitzwilliam Museum last year.