Brian Keeble is a British author and editor. He is the founder of Golgonooza Press and a co-founder of the ''Temenos'' and Temenos Academy.

Biography

Keeble is the founder of Golgonooza Press where he worked as editor, designer and publisher from 1974-2004. He was a co-founder and is a Fellow of the Temenos Academy - whose Patron is

Charles, Prince of Wales Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms. Charles was born at Buckingham Palace during the reign of his maternal grandfather, King George VI, a ...

- which is a teaching organization dedicated to the same central idea that had inspired the earlier ''Temenos'', of which he was a co-founder and editor (1980–1991). Both focus on a devotion to the ‘Arts of the Imagination’ and feature the lectures and works of scholars and teachers committed to

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. The Golgonooza Press Archive, covering the years 1962 to 2012, is in the

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(Add MS 89131).Golgonooza Press Archive
archives and manuscripts catalogue, the British Library. Retrieved 2 June 2020 He wrote a poem to be set to music by

John Tavener Sir John Kenneth Tavener (28 January 1944 – 12 November 2013) was an English composer, known for his extensive output of choral religious music, religious works. Among his best known works are ''The Lamb (Tavener), The Lamb'' (1982), ''The ...

for choir, organ and temple gong as ''

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''.

Bibliography

*''In Hollow Sleep'', (Tragara Press, 1972) *''Art: For Whom and For What?'', (Golgonooza Press, 1998) *''

Vernon Watkins Vernon Phillips Watkins (27 June 1906 – 8 October 1967) was a Welsh poet and translator. His headmaster at Repton was Geoffrey Fisher, who became Archbishop of Canterbury. Despite his parents being Nonconformists, Watkins' school experience ...

: Inspiration as Poetry,Poetry as Inspiration'',(Temenos Academy, 2002) *''Twenty-four Poems'', (Golgonooza Press, 2002) *''Conversing with Paradise'', (Golgonooza Press, 2005) *''Shapes of Light,Poems'', (Golgonooza Press, 2005) *''Every Man an Artist: Readings in the Traditional Philosophy of Art'', (

World Wisdom World Wisdom is an independent American publishing company established in 1980 in Bloomington, Indiana. World Wisdom publishes religious and philosophical texts, including the work of authors such as Frithjof Schuon, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Titus ...

, 2005) *''

Kathleen Raine Kathleen Jessie Raine (14 June 1908 – 6 July 2003) was an English poet, critic and scholar, writing in particular on William Blake, W. B. Yeats and Thomas Taylor. Known for her interest in various forms of spirituality, most prominently Plat ...

: Poetic Imagination and the Vision of Reality'', (Temenos Academy, 2008) *''In His Name and other poems'', (Golgonooza Press, 2008) *''God & Work: Aspects of Art and Tradition'', (World Wisdom, 2009) *'' Cecil Collins:The Artist as Writer and Image Maker'', (Golgonooza Press, 2009) *''From a Handful of Dust,Poems'', (Golgonooza Press, 2011) *''Far from the Dawn, Poems'', (Golgonooza Press, 2014) *''Daily Bread: Art and Work in the Reign of Quantity'', (Selected essays), Edited and introduced by Andrew Frisardi, (Angelico Press, 2015) *''Mask After Mask, Poems'', (Golgonooza Press, 2018) *''These Bright Shadows: The Poetry of Kathleen Raine'', (Angelico Press, 2020) *''Words to the Wind, Poems'', (Golgnooza Press, 2021) Works edited by Brian Keeble *''The Inner Journey of the Poet, and other papers, by Kathleen Raine''. (Allen & Unwin, 1982) *''A Holy Tradition of Working. An Anthology of the Writings of

Eric Gill Arthur Eric Rowton Gill (22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940) was an English sculptor, letter cutter, typeface designer, and printmaker. Although the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' describes Gill as "the greatest artist-craftsma ...

'', (Golgonooza Press, 1983) *''What is Civilisation? and other Essays, by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy'', (Golgonooza Press, 1989) *''Standing on Earth. Selected Essays of

Wendell Berry Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. Closely identified with rural Kentucky, Berry developed many of his agrarian themes in the early essays o ...

'', (Golgonooza Press, 1991) *''Meditations, Poems, Pages from a Sketch Book, by Cecil Collins'', (Golgonooza Press, 1997) *''The Music of Silence, a Composer's Testament, by Sir John Tavener'', (Faber & Faber, 1999) *''The Vision of the Fool and other Writings, by Cecil Collins, enlarged edition'', (Golgonooza Press, 2002) *''Temenos Academy Review 7, Kathleen Raine Memorial Issue'', (Temenos Academy, 2004) *''The Underlying Order and other Essays, by Kathleen Raine'', (Temenos Academy, 2008) *''That Wondrous Pattern, Essays on Poetry and Poets, by Kathleen Raine''. (Counterpoint Press, 2017) *''A Holy Tradition of Working, Passages from the writings of Eric Gill, selected with an Introduction by Brian Keeble, new edition with foreword by Wendell Berry''. (Angelico Press, 2021)

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