ARTHUR MACHEN AND SKIRRID FAWR
I had a very enjoyable weekend in the Welsh town of Abergavenny, for the AGM of the Friends of Arthur Machen, the society I joined last after much prompting from my friend Timothy Jarvis, one of the editors of the society’s journal, Faunus. I went to Abergavenny with Tim and the journal’s other editor, James Machin – where we decided to ascend Skirrid Fawr, a place known as ‘The Holy Mountain’ in the work of Arthur Machen. Machen, of course, was born in the nearby town of Caerleon, and I hope would have approved of our slightly hungover and breathless ascent of the hillside.