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John Mitchinson’s
Zeitgeisters
Profiles of the people whose ideas are helping to shape the future
MARTIN SHAW
Writer,
Storyteller & Mythographer
Martin Shaw’s life resembles one of the stories he tells with such fluency and grace.
A child of the 70s, the son of a charismatic but troubled preacher, he grew up in a house without television but full of books. After leaving school without qualifications, he became a drummer in a succession of punk rock bands before, at the age of 26, dropping out to live in a tent on a Welsh mountainside. During his four years on the mountain, he reinvented himself as a teller and teacher of myth, establishing a school, and eventually holding a series of academic posts at Stanford, Dartington Hall, and, most recently, Cambridge.
Along the way he has forged friendships and collaborations with a series of remarkable mentors including Robert Bly, Wallace Black Elk, James Hillman, Ai Weiwei, Rowan Williams, and Mark Rylance.
Where to Start?
As well as being one of the most celebrated oral storytellers of his generation, Shaw is also the author of 18 books, one of which, Bardskull, I had the great privilege to publish.
