Belated hello, everyone

[maybank]

I first encountered the writings of Kenneth Grant as a teenager in the late 1970s; ever since then, I've been enthralled, baffled, enlightened, inspired and frustrated in equal measure! I find I always return to one or other of the Typhonian Trilogies, even after periods of abeyance that may have lasted years. I'm not a practitioner in the Typhonian trad., my practice (such as it is) is an ad hoc sort of Voodoo combined with a non-denominational or 'hedge' witchcraft. 

My continuing interest in KG and the TTs lies in his fascinating prose, his insights into very ancient magical/religious practices (and their possible survival in such traditions as Vodou), transmundane communications, and the art aspect of his work, in particular his relationship with Spare (I'm also a fan of Steffi Grant's art). 

I'm glad to be on board, and have already read much of interest.

PS I had quite a vivid dream last night, in which Grant feaured. Did he ever work at a publisher's during the 1950s or 1960s, does anyone know?!

[Michael Staley]

Welcome to the site, maybank. It's good to see your participation in the discussions here.

So far as I'm aware, he never worked at a publisher's. He did work in a bookshop in the mid to late 1940s, I believe.

I agree with you about Grant's prose, some of which is really good, as you'd perhaps expect from a poet. My very favourite passage is the last two paragraphs of the Introduction to Outside the Circles of Time, where a startling idea - the idea of sounding reverberant echoes in the imagination of the reader - is expressed in truly haunting prose.