'The Rose' Storytelling with Harp
12 June 2010, 11am-3.30pm
Forest Row, East Sussex
Storytelling with harp music dramatising Barfield's 1929 novella, The Rose on the Ash-Heap.
Grandson, Owen A. Barfield, will be speaking, with personal reflections and family photographs.
£15/£10 (students/unwaged) – includes vegetarian lunch
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On Owen Barfield
17 June 2010, 7.00pm
Rudolf Steiner House, London
Two illustrated talks by grandson, Owen A. Barfield:
'Owen Barfield: A grandson's personal reflections with photographs'
'Symbolism/Polarity in Sacred Art and a link to Nature'
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Barfield e-catalogue at the Bodleian, Oxford
Now online!
The e-catalogue of the Barfield archive at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University is now available....more
Run by the Barfield Society, the forum covers 6 broad topics.....more
Owen Barfield Poetry Prize 2010
Celebrating the 80+ years since the publication of Poetic Diction.
For more details of this annual poetry prize, and how to enter, click here.
NEW BOOKS
Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning
"Valued not only as a secret book, but nearly as a sacred one"
Read the seminal text that inspired Tolkien and C.S. Lewis....more
The Rose on the Ash-Heap
Published for the first time in 2009, The Rose on the Ash-Heap is at once fairy tale, societal critique, romance and apocalyptic vision....more
The Case For Anthroposophy
Barfield's original translation of Rudolf Steiner's work lucidly and powerfully makes the case for the science of the spirit....more
FORTHCOMING
From the Barfield Press in 2010
This Ever Diverse Pair
Worlds Apart: A Dialogue of the 1960's
Unancestral Voice
Publications will be available from all major booksellers, as well as on this website. We also plan to make most of the books available in digital format.
RMMLA 2010 convention at Albuquerque, New Mexico
14 - 16 October 2010
Join the Barfield Society at the RMMLA!
Since 1998, the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association’s annual conventions have included a session on Owen Barfield. The RMMLA’s Barfield sessions were initiated by the late Professor Raymond Tripp and scholars who had studied with him at the University of Denver. In 2007, the Owen Barfield Society was granted affiliate status with the RMMLA.
Evolution of Consciousness: Our Changing Perception of Landscape
23 - 30 October 2010
Pyrenees, South of France
Landscape Perception Workshop inspired by the work of Owen Barfield, with Adriaan Luijk and Simon Blaxland de Lange. See www.regarding-landscapes.com