Description Paperback editions. Cista Mystica Press, Devon, England. Please note: your parcel will require a signature on delivery when shipping to the UK and Europe. Praise for A Branch from the Lightning Tree “A true master. Martin Shaw is one of the very greatest storytellers we have.”–Robert Bly, author of Iron John “Martin Shaw is out there listening. To myths, dreams, the earth itself, the animals. He is a true shaman. Go into your deep silence, and listen for what he says directly to you.” –Coleman Barks, author of Rumi: The Big Red Book Praise for Snowy Tower “Martin Shaw’s a conjurer, a thirteenth-century troubadour dropped into our midst. Snowy Tower animates a tale from a far-off place and far-off time into vibrant, immediate life. He breathes into his characters a beating pulse, agile speech, and bedazzling wit. Catch him any way you can.” –Eric Utne, founder of The Utne Reader “Martin Shaw has hung around a great deal in the Otherworld. There is woodsmoke and fox fur in his thinking, and a wild mix of courage, stories and troubling ideas – Snowy Tower is a kind of outlaw language.” –Robert Bly, author of Iron John Praise for Scatterlings “Martin Shaw is, without exaggeration, the most powerful writer of prose that I have read. In Scatterlings, Shaw casts off the domesticated language with which we have been inundated since our birth, and something wild, ancient, intelligent, and incredibly strong enters his words. And as those meaning-filled words penetrate us, deeply sleeping parts of the self begin to awaken. We see again with luminous eyes, hear again the shimmer of Earth in language; a portal opens and the power of out there begins moving through the in here. 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 Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm “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 Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape
