We hope those who have got a copy of the new edition of The Silver Trumpet in the two months have enjoyed reading it, or are enjoying it.

This post is a brief one, by way of information, of news after the new edition’s publication.

Online Event

Whether you have read The Silver Trumpet or not, you may be interested in an online event being held next month by the Inkling Folk Fellowship, details as follows.

• Topic: Owen Barfield‘s The Silver Trumpet (in Honor of its Republication), with Landon Loftin and Edwin Woodruff-Tait
• Date and Time: Friday 8th August, 2025. 4 p.m. Eastern Time, which is 9 p.m. London Time
• Contact: to join the meeting, please send a message to info@inklingfolk.org

 
All are welcome to the event.

Review

Connor Salter has written a positive, but also well-informed and interesting, review of The Silver Trumpet on the Fellowship and Fairydust website: the review is here. An excerpt:

Reading Barfield’s fiction is always curious because he seemed to explore whatever genre came to his mind. […] Given Barfield’s experimentation with different forms, it’s not surprising that The Silver Trumpet is an inventive story. It swings from fairytale to slapstick comedy to gothic drama, then back to fairytale again. Like some of Tolkien’s shorter fiction (especially Farmer Giles of Ham), it reads like the author is bursting with ideas.

  A wonderful book for children or fans of classic fairytales, particularly readers who enjoyed The Hobbit, The Princess and the Goblin, or the Chronicles of Narnia.

A request for help

If you have enjoyed The Silver Trumpet, we might ask that you review it on Amazon, which for better or worse is the main distribution channel. It can be an assurance and encouragement to others. As of the date of this being published, there have been no reviews of the Barfield Press edition.

For that matter, if you wish to buy The Silver Trumpet, as a reminder, you can find it at the following online pages: