Books Landscape Magic

My second book, The Fisher King, will be published by @brokensleep at the end of next year. Its an intensely personal book that mediates a psychological & spiritual journey of queer aging through the myth of the Fisher King. Expect Fox, Heron, Curlew, Tom O'Bedlam & witchcraft

It has been a subterranean kinda day... Clearwell Caves, well worth going. An excellent balance of museum style history, art installations and simple cave experience. The last working ochre mine in the country.

Small things found in the woods...

The way into the woods...

Puddle windows

Visit to the Devils Chapel in the Forest of Dean. An area of limestone formations of deep gullies and caves known as Scowles. Deeply atmospheric.

The Staunton Stone known in local lore as the Bleeding Stone. Prick it with a pin at midnight and it will bleed.

From neolithic standing stones to graffitied containers via strange brick walls, it was a day of finding human constructions in the forest...

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Been engaged in a 'poem a day' challenge with friends. A short poem every day with no expectation of great literature. It helps to apply magical/symbolic thinking to the thoughts, events, conversations and objects of what might otherwise seem a mundane day. Here are a few.

An autumn shine and shore and shrine.

Amazing and inspiring evening with David Southall at Treadwells tonight talking about @HooklandGuide and its motto: Re-enchantment is Resistance. There are still good people in the world.

Found this holed piece of wood on the shore exactly a year ago today on my birthday and have worn it as a talisman for the year. Now I have to consider what to do with it.

Seed time

Snowshill Manor. Mad collector and cosplayer Charles Paget Wade filled a manor house with his collection and lived himself in a cottage next door.

'The Empty Boat is Flooded with Moonlight' By Dan Hillier

Sol Invictus, The Unconquered Sun. A a Romano-Celtic sun deity from the 1st cent BC to AD and found in Armagh. On display in the Sun and Moon exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery.

Really delighted with today's find. A copy of Kathleen Raine's Collected Poems to 1980 signed by her and with a postcard she wrote inside.

Swallows, butterflies and bees in a Sussex church

The dead are parched too.