Brian Keeble

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Brian Keeble is a British author and editor. [1] He is the founder of Golgonooza Press and a co-founder of the Temenos and Temenos Academy. [2]

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Keeble is the founder of Golgonooza Press where he worked as editor, designer and publisher from 1974-2004. [3]

He was a co-founder and is a Fellow of the Temenos Academy - whose Patron is Charles, Prince of Wales - 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). [4] Both focus on a devotion to the ‘Arts of the Imagination’ and feature the lectures and works of scholars and teachers committed to Perennial Philosophy.

The Golgonooza Press Archive, covering the years 1962 to 2012, is in the British Library (Add MS 89131). [5]

He wrote a poem to be set to music by John Tavener for choir, organ and temple gong as Mother and Child .

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Works edited by Brian Keeble

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References

  1. Religion: Beyond a Concept (2007) Hent De Vries p. 981. "In contrast to, e.g., Pierre Boulez, who is a prolific writer himself, Tavener has used a ghost writer for his most important book to date, Brian Keeble, ed., John Tavener: The Music of Silence".
  2. Temenos Academy Review
  3. Keeble, Brian. Every man an artist. World Wisdom Books, 2005. 245. Print.
  4. Author Page Archived February 22, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  5. Golgonooza Press Archive, archives and manuscripts catalogue, the British Library. Retrieved 2 June 2020