Praise for Martin Shaw
"Martin Shaw's work is so very beautiful. A new animal. His love of images is deep and contagious. In the passion of his search he makes up new words that seem as though we've always known them. His language is tasty and surprising. This elegant combination of very fresh, free verse storytelling, and a deep untangling of myth feels so alive. What will it do next?" — Coleman Barks, author of The Essential Rumi
"Martin Shaw is a teacher of profound cultural knowledge, and is a master artist at transmitting it. Those transmissions are subtle and profound. We desperately need his work." — Tony Hoagland, author of Application For Release From The Dream
“Shaw encourages and illuminates the mythic in our own lives. He is a modern-day bard.” — Madeline Miller
"The heart has a true-north, says Martin Shaw. He uses it. His work combines a magnificence of soul with a deft acuity of intellect, portraying a quintessential comprehension of the human spirit in its mythic path. He writes in a rare register of an earthy seer and I am in awe."— Jay Griffiths, author of Wild: An Elemental Journey
"Martin Shaw's gift is his unsurpassed ability to bring myth past locked doors and into our hearts. He reveals all the glory and terror of the human condition, showing us the deeper story of our own lives." — Jacob Needleman, author of An Unknown Earth
"Shaw is a writer of rare and fierce beauty.” — Daniel Deardorff, author of The Other Within
"With great skill, agility and elegance Martin Shaw takes us deeply to the mythic life-blood of his beloved Dartmoor – Martin's word-magic will embed you ever more powerfully in the soul of your own land, wherever on Earth you happen to be." — Stephan Harding, author of Animate Earth
"Martin Shaw is, without exaggeration, the most powerful writer of prose that I have read. A wild light begins to gleam in our eyes, our hair grows long, our language begins to shift, and in some inexplicable way, as humans long ago understood we could, we begin to become old growth ourselves." — Stephen Harrod Buhner, award winning author of Ensouling Language and Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm
“Martin Shaw is the lost Inkling.” — Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option
“The work of a true and transformative enchanter: this is a chaotic, overwhelming, visionary introduction to the wildness of the sacred world we live in; every story , riddle or song here opens inner depths for the reader (or, better, listener).” — Rowan Williams
"An intriguing book, enthralling and riveting. It kept me reading and my mind was full of visions and myths. Loved it." — Anna Maria Giacomasso, Librarian